Questions

Is the server down now? New post uploading and template editing keep failing.

I am writing a post to share some setting, seems the variables will be disappeared if there is a conflict of template. Here's what I have on iA Writer and this is what it looks like after rendering by Blot.

I would like to know how to have a section in the blog containing posts independent of those on the home page. For example, I would like to create a page called 'News' on which to put posts that do not appear on the home page.

I'm creating an photography website with photos sorted by tags. But instead of tags, I want to use the term "album". Is is possible to change the url from https://example.com/tagged/france to https://example.com/album/france ? Thanks and keep up the good work with Blot!

I am using the Magazine template and am unable to change the date format when editing the template. All other editing functions work fine, including relative date. But when I change the date format, the changes are not shown in the preview or on the actual site. Once I refresh the editor, the editor shows the default date format again, discarding my changes.

When using the Blog tempate and viewing a single entry, the <h5> elements for Tags, Date, Next, and Previously all appear on top of each other in the top left of the page. Looking through the CSS, it appears that .label-left h5 is set to position:absolute, which explains the behavior. Adding position:relative to the CSS rules for .label-left ensures that the parent element of the <h5> is set to relative, which fixes the issue with their absolute positioning.

I have two posts with slugs. After being published, their URLs have "-2" added right after the slug. I have checked the slugs of each post and confirmed that they are not identical. This leads me to believe that there might be another reason for the addition of "-2" in the URLs. Here is one of the post has a slug "bionic" but it's URL is displayed as being "bionic-2": https://kuoyihs.in/bionic-2.

I changed my picture for my blog, but the favicon didn't get changed, is there anything else todo after uploading the new picture?

I would like to add a TOC (table of contents) to each post on my blog. What is the best way to accomplish this?

When I want to link manually to an image in a tagged [folder] like so (tagged/folder) HTML doesn't work properly anymory, most likely due to the additional brackets around the folder name. Is there a way in markdown to "escape" the brackets in the image URL?

Would it be possible to show all entries excluding posts with a specific tag?

Whenever I try to add files to the "Files" folder I get the following error (I'm using GitHub Desktop): "The remote disconnected. Check your Internet connection and try again." It handles all new text files just fine, but if I try to add a png, jpg, or zip it gets rejected and I get an error. How can I get blog.im to host my images? UPDATE: I'm also getting a "500 Internal Server Error" when I try to upload a small jpg via the dashboard here - https://blot.im/dashboard/USERNAME/photo

There seems to be an issue with modifying stylesheets. Every time I try to save changes to a css file (in any of my themes), I get this: 500 Internal Server Error Any help with this would be appreciated. Thanks!

Is there a way to purge all content from the blog without affecting the overall structural logic and the changes made in the CSS and HTML files (i.e through a fresh reinstall)? Essentially starting with a clean slate? Since I am only familiar with MySQL it would be akin to deleting all content from the tables but leaving the table logic and connection as is and not touching the front-end bits at all.

I have a bunch of images from a trip to Bali in a folder tagged [Bali]. I tried adding a markdown file in the same folder (tagged "Bali" in the meta data) in order to add a headline and some textual information. It is actually rendered, however, only at the end of the page underneath the images. Is there a way to push the text from the markdown file to the top of the page? I tried changing the date to be more recent than the images, but images seem to automatically have render priority.

I love the smooth, build-in image zoom (Blog Template), but I have a situation (image in a teaser section on the start page) where I would like to selectively turn it off, because it is preventing the image from being clickable. Is this possible somehow?

I am just getting started with Blot and would like to fork an unsupported template. I've previously tinkered around with that but recently with the changes to the blot site, I'm finding myself unable to access the "Fork" button on that Unsupported Templates page. The only button available to me is the "Preview" button. Is anyone experiencing the same? Does anyone know of a workaround? I would like to preview and fork specifically the Essay Old and Essay Two templates.

Has anyone managed to place a link around an image via markdown? Normally, according to markdown rules, this would look something like this: (/tagged/cats) But for some reason, in my case, the URL part is not recognized but somehow becomes a text which then sits underneath the image.

Hello, I'm trying to create a custom template, but some documentation seems to be missing: https://blot.im/developers/reference