Questions

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?

Have been getting no reply from him for the past 2+ months on a technical issue, and there has been no github activity (including activity on blot) either Just wondering if everything is okay

I deleted the RSS page by mistake. When I created a new RSS page and linked to to the "/rss" URL, i get a "Page not found" error. How can I recreate the RSS button?

How can I create a page that just lists the tags that are being used? Is it possible for it to be auto-updated as well? For reference I'm using a forked version of Essay 2.

How can I integrate a newsletter service to blot so that my posts arrive per e-mail without having to duplicate my blog in sites like tinyletter or substack? Is there a service which works well with Blot's infrastructure?

Hi, I have the correct measurement ID (GA4) set up in Blot settings but Google Analytics is not receiving any data. It used to work in the past. Any idea what’s up?

I've just created my blog with Blot and when I search for my name, my URL or some content on my site, Google simply doesn't find anything. Can you help me in anyway?

Hi! I created a blog using the default blog template and tried using layout tags and added the layout sample post but it's not reflecting correctly. Is there anything we need to do to the default blog template to make that work / look like the blog preview?

I would like to change fonts for my posts and perhaps also change the font used in TeX equations and formulas, is that possible? It feels off having text and formulas with different fonts/styles.

Hi, I'm using a forked version of the Blog template and I think the space between two entries in entries.html is a bit too long. I want to bring the entries closer and reduce the blank spaces. I'm also using the {{{teaser}}} tag in entries.html together with the option SHOW FULL POSTS. Can you guys help? Thanks!

Is there a way to create a specific page that only show the thumbnails of the photo posts? I've created a new file named thumbs.html with the following code: <!DOCTYPE html> <html> {{> head}} <body> {{> header}} <ul class="photos"> {{#entries}} {{#thumbnail.large.url}} <li> <a href="{{{url}}}">{{#thumbnail.medium}}<img src="{{url}}" width="{{width}}" height="{{height}}">{{/thumbnail.medium}}</a> </li> {{/thumbnail.large.url}} {{/entries}} {{> footer}} </ul> </body> </html> But when I visit /thumbs.html or /thumbs I get an error that the page is not found. Am I creating the custom page the wrong way? Thanks.