Questions

Hello, is it possible to have a message on the homepage saying something like "Latest update on: " and have the date of the latest blog entry displayed there? Thanks!

Hello, I was wondering, now that there is a super easy way to share templates, do you any place where Blot users might preferably want to share/try external templates? Maybe a GitHub group or something like that? Tags work, but there is not an “official” GitHub repository tag to find them all in the same place.

I noticed that redirects lead to 404 page when the link is accessed from a Facebook post. Apparently, Facebook appends a tracking parameter ?fbclid=* to the url and it messes up the redirect. Is there a way around this?

I noticed in your reference section there's a {{backlinks}} code: "A list of all the entries on your site which link to this entry." {{#backlinks}} <a href="{{url}}">{{title}}</a> {{/backlinks}} I tried this on pages and posts that linked to each other but nothing shows up. Am I misunderstanding the purpose of this?

Hello all. I’m a new Blot user and I really enjoy its simplicity. However, I’ve never had to use GitHub before and have found myself stuck. I have Obsidian syncing with GitHub without issue. However, for the life of me, I can’t figure out how to get Blot to also sync with my current setup on GitHub. Is there anyone who can assist or point me in the right direction of a tutorial? I don’t mind learning, I just don’t know where to go to start doing so.

I was creating a series of pages a few days ago—the first 10 worked perfectly, then things stopped updating from my dropbox sync. It looks like Dropbox is functioning fine, and I haven't changed any of my process for adding to blot, so I'm not sure what I broke! When I try to reset/fix my folder on https://blot.im/settings/client/fix, I get an orange error message that says "Failed to acquire folder lock." Any advice?

I am working on a photography based theme but I am struggling with grouping each project based on the dropbox folder they are in. I saw that the "Portfolio" theme is also ignoring the folder. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I recently set up a redirect of a tagged page to a gallery page but it doesn't seem to be working: From: /tagged/photos to: /gallery Clicking the photos tag below the post still sends me to the tagged page rather than the photo gallery I set up. How can I tweak this further to make it work? Thanks!

I'm in the process of redesigning my website. The idea is to create a static portfolio as a landing page, which has a link to take the user to the blog. When I try to change the entries.html URL in the package.json file to point to another URL (E.G: /articles) the page does not load any entries. I tried to use the ?debug=true option and discovered that entries don't get added in the returned json object. I could use the all_entries tag, but then I will lose the pagination. Another thing I tried is to create a new view and calling entries from there, but that didn't work either. Any thoughts?

I added a post and then deleted it, yet it still shows on my blog. I've cleared cache and tried other browsers. The post .md file is gone from the Dropbox folder, and gone from the web view of my blog folders, yet still it remains. Actually, two copies of it appear on the blog. Ideas?

Is there a way to publish a post, but not have it show up in the main feed?

It's been over a week since I posted questions and emailed support for migrating my blog from Wordpress. I have since begun migrating it over manually but this lack of presence of support for this long has me concerned I may have made the wrong move coming here.

Hi folks, I'm just wondering whether anyone has a method they would recommend for embedding something like a slideshow / image carousel in a Blot post. Thanks in advance for any tips.

Would it be possible to enable HTTP/2 in Nginx configuration?

I just discovered that Commento seems to register URLs with or without trailing slashes as different posts. Is this expected behavior? Is there any way to redirect the version with the trailing slash to the version without, so comments won't keep being split on future posts?

Is it possible to extend the Markdown parsing with our own additions?

Hi, how can I import from my Wordpress blog into Blot that will also honor the existing permalink structure? Thank you.

I’ve tried all three of the potential settings available at https://blot.im/settings/services/permalinks, but changing the setting and saving doesn’t seem to work as I might expect. My URLs default to the standard/original “Title” option. Ideally I’d like to have permalinks be of the format https://example.com/foldername/filename which I would expect to work if I choose the “Custom” option and use the syntax {{path-without-extension}} in the field. However, this doesn’t seem to be the case. Am I doing something wrong, or is the setting just not saving and propagating properly? From a documentation perspective, perhaps some examples of how to chain together the tokens on https://blot.im/how/configure/urls and the expected URL outputs might also be helpful for people? Thanks in advance for your help.

It looks like if I have some nested folders under Pages, Blot will convert and publish them all, but the URLs are flat URLs based on the title. Is there some way to get the URLs for pages to reflect the folder structure? I've tried {{stem}}/{{slug}} but that doesn't seem to have any effect.

I'd like to create a link to the most recent post with a specific tag. I can use {{recent_entries}} or {{all_entries}} and filter by tag but I can't find a way to get (or reference) only the first result. Elsewhere I have pagination of entries working as I want so I don't want to change local.page_size for the whole blog. Is this possible please?