Questions

On the templates page of the dashboard – what does 'fork' mean under each template?

I would like my blot website to be one of the first hits when someone searches <my name>, or <my name my profession>, but i don't want the domain to be my_name.com or stuff like this. Any advice on how to make this more likely (besides putting my name on a lot of pages)? perhaps some config file or something

How do I get markdown to display an image caption?

I would like for display formulas to float at the centre of the column, rather than stick to the left. Is there an easy fix for this?

I am using the Magazine template of which I love the Bignotes. But I would also like the footnotes to be visible at the bottom of the page. Is this possible? Thanks in advance

Is there a way to add a members-only paywall for a Blot blog? Thanks! Hani

I’m using the Magazine template but many of my titles now appear with hyphenated words on the main page. Is there a way to stop this from happening? Thanks in advance

I'd like to change the width of PDF iframe embeds – would it be possible to add a class to these so I can target them?

I am madly in love with the bibliography function. It actually was, what made me move to Blot – seriously, you made this scientist very, very happy, good bye self-hosted Jekyll. I would love to, however, move the generated bibliography within the page. My citations can get somewhat ... excessive. So I'd like to move them, within the "Blog" template, after Date, Tags, and Backlinks, and style them the same way those are. For that, I'd need somehow access to the generated HTML. Is that possible?

What exactly does the ‘Cache and Optimize Images’ option do in settings? Is that caching images fetched from other servers, or doing something with the images from Dropbox on Blot’s own CDN?

I was wondering if it would be possible to use the 'Blog' template for most of my website, whilst also having some pages on my website using the 'Portfolio' template. Is this possible? How can it be done if so?

I am trying to have a main page and want the date completely gone. How do I do it for a post?

I'm also trying to create a new page that has an embed to a newsletter and some introductory text around it. I'm struggling to find a way to do this. Any help is appreciated.

I want to use blog.[website].com (amongst other subdomains), whilst keeping my apex domain linked to Blot. I've tried doing this, and I've updated the CNAME records to reflect this, but when I go to my subdomain website I get this message: "Your domain is almost set up. You have successfully pointed your domain to Blot’s server. The DNS records you created are working. You still need to enter your domain on the dashboard. Blot must know which site to show here. Please update the domain settings page on your site’s dashboard." My normal website with the apex domain works fine.

It looks like making a change to a post’s title (therefore changing the url) is sending that post back into the RSS feed. Is that expected behavior?

I've been playing around with the excellent Reference template and having a lot of fun customizing it. While the blog feed is great for tagged images, I'm having a little bit of trouble getting video in the mix. I'm wondering if there's any way to get video embed thumbnails to display in the blog feed similar to image files? Right now they are treated as text posts since they are .md files with a Vimeo URL in them and some info in the file name (date, tags, etc). Ideally a mini version of the embedded player would show in the feed, similar to other templates. I'd be happy with a static thumbnail though, the .post.no-thumbnail style is a little jarring in a sea of image thumbnails. Thx! ♥Jonathan

I use Google Drive to sync to my blog. I added a file to the folder, then moved it to a tagged folder, and now the post is showing up twice on my blog, despite having deleted any duplicate files and reloading my Drive and my blog. The "Fix Your Folder" option is not working, and the post is showing up twice in my Archives as well. Also, as an aside, old tags that I have removed from posts are still showing up in my Archives. Help!

I'm looking for help with a ghost post. An old post continues to appear on my blog even though the .txt file is no longer in my google drive folder. I cannot figure out a way of removing it. All help is welcome !

Is there's a way to use the self-verification system at Mastodon with a Blot site. Any tips?

I want to add a second template page similar to the tagged pages, so I added in package.json: "views": { "tagged2.html": { "url": "/tagged2" "partials": { "title": "...", "description": "..." } }, ... } However this merely defines a URL http://myname.blot.im/tagged2 without parameters. That's why http://myname.blot.im/tagged2/mytag gives a 404. So how can I define a new view/template page which accepts a tag name as parameter?