Questions

Is there a way with the default blog template to add keywords to your post?

I am trying to embed an image and I have tried linking to the image in the folder on google drive which I have named "_sociallinks" but cannot work out the correct path to link to the image. I just get a question mark icon on the page. Any idea what path I should use?

I am using a custom template and would like to add the bigfoot.js plug in. I saw that the magazine template includes it but cannot figure out how to install it from scratch.

I have set up the google adsense to my site created by blot.im. And google said “ put the ads.txt on root directory. So I did it. And ads.txt was published as post. I want to avoid that ads.txt is published… Are there any ways to avoid that? Thanks in advance.

I want to create a partial which just outputs a formatted entry line (like for the Search or Tagged page). When I read the Blot doco on the template language, partials have the extension .mustache, but all existing partials in the given templates have .html as the ending. What's the best extension to use? Does .mustache work? Or should we stick to .html?

The date_display variable works brilliantly to define how dates look in my templates. -- At the moment I set it in my package.json. Hwever, I thought there was a way to set it in the web UI too -- but I cannot find this anymore. Where is it? Thanks!

What’s the location of Blot’s servers? If data is exported from the EU/UK to the US, a data processing agreement is required and standard contractual clauses. An IP address counts as personally identifiable data (court decision).

I'd like to add a section to my site which displays a link to a random post. What's the best way to accomplish that?

Hi! Is there an easy way to add some hot reload feature to a theme preview? At the moment my dev cycles is: Making a change to a theme file. Switching to the browser with the open theme preview URL Hitting cmd-R, and again cmd-R, and again cmd-R - until Dropbox is synced and the server serves the new version. Would be great if I could skip step 3 and just wait until the new version appears by itself! I could think of some server-side injected JavaScript or maybe there exist extensions (I use Firefox) which do the same client-side?

Setting Draft: true in the metadata gets me a rendered HTML file as a sibling of the source. Is the draft article also exposed at a URL I can share?

I'm a bit confused about the scope of tag names from the Reference page: For example, the reference lists blog.title and entry.title, but on the entries.html they don't seem to work for me. However the unqualified title does work.

I've set font weight: 600 (and a few other style changes) for the blog's title in header.html, and it looks great on desktop. But when I view on mobile (iOS Safari), the font weight is missing. The title doesn't look as bold as I like. Please let me know how to fix this.. thank you.

I am changing entries.html so that it only shows {{{summary}}} of a blog post. I would like to indicate a "more" link if there is more text. The {{more}} tag contains this information -- but how can I use this to display a "More" links? Can Mustache do this? Or do I need JavaScript?

Currently the way things seem to be set up for showing entries (i.e. #all_entries) is they're in reverse chronological order. Is there a way to sort by chronological order? Thanks! Ray

I found something intriguing: Some of the Blot templates render the title of a blog entry (as you can set it in the metadata) nicely as a heading, others don't do so. For example Isola renders it, but Magazine doesn't. So for Magazine you would need to repeat the title as na explicit Markdown heading. This might be desirable -- or not so. In any case the inconsistency makes it hard to switch between templates. So my question now is: What's the standard here? Is there even a wider standard beyond Blot?

I am used to a date format like 18 Jan 1999 or at least 18-01-1999. I have set the date format in the settings to DD-MM-YYY, but still the blog displays January 18, 1999.

I use FeedPress to manage my RSS feed. Ideally it would replace the standard feed for my site. For that I would have to set up a redirection from my site's normal feed to the FeedPress feed, while still giving FeedPress access to the normal site feed so it can be updated. Usually that's done via .htaccess file (see here). Is there any way this can be accomplished?

In the doco I read that after forking a template I can edit it on the Blot admin site and in the filesystem. I found where to edit them on the admin site, but I don't know where they are in the filesystem. -- I can't find them in Blot's Dropbox folder.

Trying to conceptualize how to set up my portfolio site and I was wondering if it's possible to return a more refined list of tags than either {{#all_tags}} or {{#popular_tags}}. Specifically, I'd love to be able to display a list of tags that are subhierarchical to a tag folder they reside in. Using examples from the docs, let's imagine a site set up like: [Pictures]›[Sicily] [Pictures]›[Venezia] [Essay]›[Roma] And calling {{#all_tags}} {{tagged.Pictures}}... would return the tag links [Sicily] and [Venezia] (which could be used to generate categorical navigation links as in the nav of the portfolio theme which is the base of the fork). Is there a different way to approach this or is a function similar to this possible?

Another newbie question: In the documentation I read somewhere that I can change the colors (background, text, etc) of the blog. However in the settings I could not find anything relating to this. - Do I need to make my own template for this?