Questions

I was wondering how I can stop quotes from merging onto one line. For example in markdown I have > one line > a separate line But it renders on blot as > one one a separate line Is there a simple way to prevent/override this?

On another blot site I am working on it'll be a hybrid digital garden/blog. Since some pages and posts will be updated over time, is there a way to show the last modified/updated date instead of creation date? I could change the date metadata but it would move the post around due to how Blot displays posts in reverse chronological order. I'd rather leave it wherever it is and just show updated dates whenever folks browse it.

Anyone know if any cross-posting is possible to other sites like BlueSky or Mastodon? I see that Micro.Blog just added the ability to cross-post to BlueSky.

Hello – where can I play with templates and are there 3rd party templates that are free or pay?

Is there a way to add a class to the page you're currently visiting in the menu?

I'm setting up a new theme and I'm trying to add some CSS variables (example below) but every time I try, it seems that blot isn't parsing them and is basically ignoring that CSS. Are CSS variables supported? Example: :root { --text: #333; --bg: #fafafa; } body { color: var(--text); background: var(--bg); } Apologies if this question has been answered before, but the search bar isn't working for me. I just get a faded screen with no results.

I'm gonna start building my own template for Blot. I've read through the developer docs and it mentions that one can have the template file locally in their Blot folder. The documentation doesn't say what that folder should be called in order for Blot to "see" it though? Does Blot even care? Or is it clever enough to recognise a template in the Blot folder and make it available for use in the dashboard? Thanks.

I'm currently quite happy with the structure of my entries.html. Except for one thing. I would like the "intro" of that page to be easily editable. Right now, it's hard-coded in html, and I was wondering if I could insert a markdown file instead. I've tried to add {{> intro.md}} in the entries.html file. But it does not render the markdown, it treats is as a plain text.

In Obsidian I often use the vertical bar (|) to change the text used to display a link. For example, [[Internal links|custom display text replacements]] Does this not work in Blot? I’ve been using this and just realised that all my articles have been showing the link and not the text replacements replacement.

Upon enabling Clicky tracking on the services page, I'm prompted for a Tracking ID. Clicky provides me with a Website-ID (which seems to be embedded in HTML tracking codes), a site key and an admin site key. Neither of them seems to be working, as Clicky does not count any visits. What can I do to fix this?

I see that in the intro video available in the website, some cool file layouts and formats were shown. Can I get access to those sample layouts to see whats actually possible with Blot?

Hi. Are wikilinks working as expected? I have the title of a post enclosed in double square brackets, in a page. But the link is broken. It inserts spaces instead of hyphens between the words and doesn't respect my link format. Example: I want a link on this page to link to this post. But it doesn't. Thanks

I'm also trying to create a new page that has an embed to a newsletter and some introductory text around it. I'm struggling to find a way to do this. Any help is appreciated.

What exactly does the ‘Cache and Optimize Images’ option do in settings? Is that caching images fetched from other servers, or doing something with the images from Dropbox on Blot’s own CDN?

An image post was automatically generated when I dragged an image into my Google Drive. It never goes away even though the image file has been removed from Google Drive. I'm wondering how to fix this and prevent this from happening. Could we have a button to purge the cache or notify the CDN to delete our stuff immediately? It's kind of annoying and sometimes troublesome to fail to delete inappropriate content immediately. I've sent emails to customer service but think others might have come across the same issue, so I'm also posting it here. I sincerely hope that the site can truly reflect the file structures on our cloud storage in real time. If a file is already removed from our end, it should not stay on the site for hours or days. Better yet, we could be allowed to delete files directly from dashboard since Blot keeps a copy of data on its server. It's not really a good experience to be unable to delete unwanted data at the user's discretion. Also, I think it would be better if Blot could automatically post an image or file only when its name starts with an underscore. Most of the time users don’t just hope to post an image with a default caption “image” and a default title “image.” Automatic posting doesn’t make much pragmatic sense. It may even create problems when a file is unintentionally uploaded to the cloud drive, considering that it may stay live for an indefinite amount of time. What's more, I can't switch to DropBox. Upon authorization it says ":( Error"

I'd like to set up a static front page and add a link to an an index page in the links. Is there a way to accomplish this?

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

In a page template I can iterate over my tags via {{#tags}} ... {{/tags}}. I then can display the tag name via {{name}}. So far, so good. Some of my source tags start with "cat-" (e.g. "cat-science" or "cat-computer"). However I would like to display only the part after "cat-" (i.e. "science" or resp. "computer"). Can I do this?

I'd like any 404s to send visitors to my Archives page where they could search or scan through any posts to find what they were looking for. I noticed this question that looked to achieve something similar, but (ironically enough) that page itself errors out. Is there a way to make this work?