Questions

How the tool works: navigate to a website, click the bookmarklet, enter your caption and recieve a text-file. For example, let's say you visit example.com and press the bookmarklet. You'll recieve a text file called Example.txt containing the following: [Example](http://example.com) Your caption here How to install this bookmarklet Make a new bookmark in your browser (right-click on the bookmarks bar and click Add Page...) For the "Name" you might put "Save link". Copy the code block below, paste this into the "URL" or "Location" of the new bookmark. javascript:(function () { var caption = window.prompt("Would you like to add a caption?"); if (caption === null) return; var textToSave = `[${document.title}](${window.location.href})\n\n${caption}`; var textToSaveAsBlob = new Blob([textToSave], { type: "text/plain" }); var textToSaveAsURL = window.URL.createObjectURL(textToSaveAsBlob); var fileNameToSaveAs = document.title + ".txt"; var downloadLink = document.createElement("a"); downloadLink.download = fileNameToSaveAs; downloadLink.innerHTML = "Download File"; downloadLink.href = textToSaveAsURL; downloadLink.onclick = (e) => document.body.removeChild(e.target); downloadLink.style.display = "none"; document.body.appendChild(downloadLink); downloadLink.click(); })();

I've removed two images from my Google Drive folder but they still appear on my site: https://www.bookcraft.blog/. Any help?

Blot will skip months without posts in them. However, it will always display months with posts in them even if those posts have been hidden with ^tagged Is it possible to hide these empty months?

I am using the [^Footnote] markdown notation, but it becomes literal text rather than a footnote.

If I have something in my YAML front matter, can I display that in my post? This does not seem to work when placed in the markdown file. Date: September 15th, 2022blah: Apple {{metadata.blah}}

Is there a way to replace the site title on the top left with an image, and still have it link to the landing page? The site is lookingout.io

Using the default blog template Metadata in my post works as expected eg. {{entry.metadata.title}} But when looking at the homepage, the title of the post is blank? Looks like it only fails with the blog template If I preview with all of the other templates it works

Looks like pages with the tag "Menu: no" are excluded from the search results. Is there a way to tag them to be included in the results?

First of all, thanks so much for this wonderful tool, and your attentive service. I'm actually enjoying creating a site again. Second, on this page I have a phantom image blog post. I've deleted all instances of the image from my file structure, but the image nonetheless persists. Can you please help learn how to remove it? Cheers, Drew

For this post I've specified the metadata to be: --- Date: 2021-01-01 17:15 Link: the-2020-upgradies-upgrade-332 Tags: nerdery, podcasts, favorites Author: Jarrod Blundy --- but I want the permalink to follow the Link Format that I've specified in settings: /blog/{{YYYY}}/{{M}}/{{slug}} Is there a way to it to work like that? Did I set something wrong?

Do posts automatically get an Author tag? I know you can specify Author in metadata, but I wondered if I should include that for each post or only the ones not written by me. Related, at least in my RSS reader app, regardless of whether I include Author in the metadata, it's getting parsed as the title of the post. See here for an example where I've highlighted where the Author of the post would typically be displayed.

I update my "about me" page a push new version into GIT, but on web I still see old version of the page. How can I force refresh this page to new version?

Despite removing the file and ensuring it's gone from the Google Drive folder, I can't seem to get rid of a duplicate blog post. I've tried the "Fix your folder" option as well.

Is there a way to add a TOC only on one page, which is very long? I don't want to have it on all the pages.

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!