Questions
Has anyone heard from David in recent weeks/months?
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
How to recreate the RSS feed
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?
Generate a list of tags?
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.
Newsletters services
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?
Google Analytics - No data received
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?
Why isn't my site on Google?
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?
Layout.css in the default blog template
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?
Changing fonts and TeX typesetting
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.
Reduce space between posts in entries.html
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!
Custom thumbnail archive?
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.
How does the right-hand margin work?
Using the blog theme, I did a short text-only post and noticed that the text all stays contained in the left side of the page. It seems to be a two-column layout, but I don’t know how to use that right-hand column. Could you explain how the layout works and how I can best use it? P. S. This is the coolest software project I have seen in a very long time.
Align blog title and subtitle with blog avatar
I've selected to show the blog avatar on the header. And I also added a subtitle/tagline to the blog title. But the problem is that the blog title is vertically center-aligned to the blog's avatar. So there remains a gap between the title and the subtitle. You can see this currently on my blog. How can I make the blog title and subtitle margin/padding/alignment work independent of the avatar/header's? I want to be able to align the blog title and subtitle with respect to the avatar but as per my requirement. And also be able to control the spacing between the title and subtitle. I edited many elements in style.css but nothing worked. Kindly help with this, thank you! For everyone's ref, I had previously asked around adding a tagline or sub-heading to the blog.
Embedding audio not working?
I cannot seem to find a way to embed audio files uploaded to my Dropbox. I can get a link to a Dropbox-embedded audio file that will open separately and play via Dropbox, but can't seem to embed this directly. The question How to embed audio in a post? suggests i'm doing something wrong: Can you verify that it works and/or provide an example of it being used with verification that the file is hosted on Dropbox only?
Avatar/favicon not uploading?
When I try to upload the blog's photo that will be used as the browser tab favicon (and also show up as avatar in the header as I've modified the template to show it), it's just not uploading the file. When I click "Save Changes" it doesn't save changes and again shows the "No file chosen" text. I tried with a PNG as well as JPG. Please let me know if there are certain requirements around this that I'm not following.
Blog template
There's a preview/demo page for the blog template that you've put up recently that has some design capabilities I'd like to play with, especially the images and text hanging in the right column, and the potential for full width content. Are they things that are enabled in the template already, or do I have to add some code to make them work? Thanks.
Links breaking if inside margin text on mobile
I've been using layout tags such as this one "{|<}" as footnotes for my blog. I frequently include links there. I noticed that on mobile the links do not work. This issue also persists if I use a small browser window on desktop. Thanks.
Is there a way to display the source file for each post?
I was curious: can the source text file for a post be opened via a URL? For instance, I add the file example.txt to my Posts folder in Dropbox: is there a way to see the content of that file with a URL like mydomain.com/Posts/example.txt?
Custom Domain Help
I'm having some trouble linking my blot.im site with my custom domain. Usually www.example.com works, but if I omit the www. it goes to 'Server Not Found'. Do you know what may cause that issue and how to fix it? Thank you!
Regarding absoluteURL
This is true for {{url}} and {{permalink}} as well. Instead of displaying as website.com/page, it displays as website.com/page. Any help would be appreciated.