Questions

Hi! Is there a way to sort entries by modified date, or by some custom numeric metadata field in posts? For example, if I have something like: {{#allEntries}} {{#tagged.Home}} <li><a href="{{url}}">{{title}}</a></li> {{/tagged.Home}} {{/allEntries}} Can I specify the order in which these entries appear? Even the ability to sort by modified date might be enough, since I can "touch" each file to put them in the correct order. Thank you!

I would like to add this "Written by human not AI" badge somewhere at the foot of all of my blog posts I can't figure out how to upload a png or svg into the blog source though.

I know that {{recent_entries}} shows 30 posts but how can i have my home page only show the 10 most recent posts?

I’m seeing a new best practice around regarding Content Security Policy (CSP): any solution planned in Blot regarding this or is an individual implementation to consider, like analytics? Thanks!

When I put the following in my template, I get the error Unclosed section "active} <div class="menu"> {{#menu}} {{#active}} <a href="{{{url}}}" class="light active">{{label}}</a> {{/active}} {{^active}} <p>hello</p> {{/active}} <a href="{{{url}}}" class="light">{{label}}</a> {{/menu}} </div>

Is it possible to set the date format of posts so they include the day of the week?

Is there a way to show the first frame (or just any image) of a (local) video (located in the same folder as the .md file) as a preview image rather than just the play icon? This seems to work fine for external video hosted on Youtube, but does not seem to work for video stored in the same folder

Is it possible to get the length of the post content? It could be used to calculate reading time, display the post in a different layout, etc . if we have a way to get the number of characters.

Does Blot support .gif(s) inside the posts? The ones that I added doesn't seem to show correctly.

Is there a smart way to add a discrete copyright statement (eg. C 2023 XX, all rights reserved) as a footer to all pages? I'm using Diary template. Thanks!

I love the hover preview used in the bigfoot footnotes within the magazine theme. Just wondering if there was a way to do similar when hovering over wikilinks (similar to that of wikipedia or obsidian)?

Hi, I have been playing around with trying to set up ap_shortcodes.js on my site to allow shortcodes to format RPG 'actual play' reports. I've tried pointing the head scripts and css to the default location and also downloading them to my local site and pointing to them there, but the JavaScript doesn't seem to be getting picked up. The example page provided by the developer works just fine (the example html) so my browser is certainly able to render the scripts...and I'm assuming the default scripts (that I've been trying to point to) also are functional. I presume it's just something at the Blot end that I've done incorrectly! Can you please point me in the direction of any information that might help me configure these settings?

Is it possible to make an image into a clickable link in blot?

I posted a photo on my blog. I noticed it set the time to 12:00 am, even though that wasn't the timestamp on the photo. How do I set the time on a jpg? Also can I add a tag to this photo? Thank you!

E.g., setting canonical links, meta descriptions, og:image, site title/description, etc.

I have scheduled two posts in advance, "Part 1" today and "Part 2" next week. At the bottom of Part 1 though, it shows "links to this post," including (necessarily, currently only) "Part 2," even though this link is broken because it won't be shared until next week. Is there a way to hide this?

I currently have a paid Dropbox account. But I am considering switching to an alternate service (probably iCloud). I remember reading somewhere – on the Blot website I think, but can no longer find it – that with recent changes in Dropbox plans, free Dropbox accounts will no longer sync with services like Blot in the same way paid Dropbox accounts do. Will my Blot website be affected if I switch to a free Dropbox account? Also, do you have any future plans to sync with iCloud or other services like Google Drive?

Is there currently a way to replicate Jekyll style site-wide metadata? I am trying to use Blot for my teaching materials and there are several bits of information (deadlines for papers etc) that need to appear in several different entries; being able to define them in a single (yaml/json?) data file and include them in the entry as, for example {{site.metadata.deadline1}} would be really useful. Thanks!

How do I get a full export of my data? When I try to export I only get an "accounts.json" file and that's it. Cheers!

I plan to use Blot to blog in Arabic – do you forsee any problems in using Arabic letters in the text files to be uploaded? I will develop a new template that supports and renders Arabic correctly. I have a good knowledge with HTML/CSS, and the documentations for theme development will help me.