Questions

It appears you can set the title of an image like so. I'm wondering if there could be an option to allow using the title instead of alt text for the image caption. Could be a nice convenience over putting in HTML for a caption. Or is there already a good way to set a separate caption that I'm missing?

Hey friends, I'm attempting to transfer my site from Dropbox to Google Drive — Each time I make it through the Google authentication and receive an email from Google confirming that the sign-in was successful, but instead of being redirected to Blot, I get a 'Too many HTTP redirects' error page. I have tried clearing my cache and have tried using multiple browsers. This appears to be an issue on the Blot end. Blot now thinks I am connected to Google Drive, but none of my files have been transferred across, and all file links on my website are broken. Any suggestions? :)

Is there an existing solution to adding a toggle switch or using device settings for light / dark mode? I'm using the Blog template. Thank you.

If I fork a template and I mess it up, can I easily switch back to the default template?

I see there is a {{#is}} used in the entries.html for the blog template. Is there a list of these "helper" functions somewhere?

I just signed up and I cannot get Dropbox or Google Drive to connect. It gives me an error on both as soon as I try to connect.

Even with clearing cookies etc. different browsers, flushed DNS and router restarts

An image post was automatically generated when I dragged an image into my Google Drive. It never goes away even though the image file has been removed from Google Drive. I'm wondering how to fix this and prevent this from happening. Could we have a button to purge the cache or notify the CDN to delete our stuff immediately? It's kind of annoying and sometimes troublesome to fail to delete inappropriate content immediately. I've sent emails to customer service but think others might have come across the same issue, so I'm also posting it here. I sincerely hope that the site can truly reflect the file structures on our cloud storage in real time. If a file is already removed from our end, it should not stay on the site for hours or days. Better yet, we could be allowed to delete files directly from dashboard since Blot keeps a copy of data on its server. It's not really a good experience to be unable to delete unwanted data at the user's discretion. Also, I think it would be better if Blot could automatically post an image or file only when its name starts with an underscore. Most of the time users don’t just hope to post an image with a default caption “image” and a default title “image.” Automatic posting doesn’t make much pragmatic sense. It may even create problems when a file is unintentionally uploaded to the cloud drive, considering that it may stay live for an indefinite amount of time. What's more, I can't switch to DropBox. Upon authorization it says ":( Error"

people elsewhere are reporting an issue with dropbox API which prevents syncing Bad input to API call Error in call to API function "files/ get_metadata": Unknown API function: / 2/files/get_metadata Path: /data see here : https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/API-function-get-metadata-started-to-fail/td-p/638921

Is there a baked in modal window I can access for video and audio presentation? Kinda like how images are presented.

The Bigfoot footnotes in Magazine template are great. littlefoot might be easier to inject into my template but I need guidance. I can't try my tests because Blot is no longer synching since I switched to Google Drive. kitz

Can I make it so that the menu is shown with the accent colour rather than gray? I'm using (a slightly customised version of) the Blog template.

I have not configured a static landing page and would prefer not to do so, but I've put a short intro paragraph greeting visitors to my site above my list of entries. Is it possible to have that paragraph only appear on the first page, not on the subsequent pages containing older entries? I know I could set up a static landing page alternatively, but then there's limitations to showing the list of entries on the same page right?

I am trying to post a few archived blog posts on my site, and I want to link to them manually, but I don't want them to show up in the blog roll or the page menus. I have been able to hide posts and pages from view, but when I do, the txt or md file doesn't process; it just shows up as monospace text which isn't user friendly. Is there a way to solve this?

Is it possible have setup where every link shared on twitter adds twitter card with the logo/icon of my site as part of it. I don't put images in most posts and I know other sites have this as default. Thanks!

Can you see any reason why the Syntax Highlighting for the Javascript section in this post isn't showing? It appears to be trying to load the colors according to the HTML when I inspect the element, but none of the syntax colors are working. They were working earlier this evening.

Is it possible to use portfolio theme on web and magazine theme for mobile in parallel? If so, how?

Is there something going on with local templating syncing? I made a change to a class in both style.css and archivesContent.html to better describe how it's being used. It looks like Dropbox has synced the changes, but the change is not being respected on my live site.

I know that {{total_posts}} gets me the number of every published post. Is there a similar query that will give me just the number of posts in a given group (i.e. month). You can see what I'm trying to accomplish here:

It is straightforward to display a Latex equation on a single line with: $$(some equation)$$ This will create a new line with a displayed equation. But how do I display a Latex equation within a sentence (without displaying the equation on a single line of its own). It is usually done with $(some equation)$ or \( (some equation ) \) or some variant of it, but this does not seem to work with blot.im... Without a mechanism for displaying maths equations "inline", it is basically impossible to discuss any type of mathematics! Relevant: https://github.com/KaTeX/KaTeX/issues/1481 Huge thanks if there is a way to do this!