Questions

I'm looking for help with a ghost post. An old post continues to appear on my blog even though the .txt file is no longer in my google drive folder. I cannot figure out a way of removing it. All help is welcome !

I use Google Drive to sync to my blog. I added a file to the folder, then moved it to a tagged folder, and now the post is showing up twice on my blog, despite having deleted any duplicate files and reloading my Drive and my blog. The "Fix Your Folder" option is not working, and the post is showing up twice in my Archives as well. Also, as an aside, old tags that I have removed from posts are still showing up in my Archives. Help!

I'm new to all this and palying around a bit. I use Obsidian as MD editor and am publishing my first post. When I write my post I want to add an image to it. That image is in the same folder as the post. Now when Blot picks things up it shows both the image and the blog post on the homepage. Can I avoid that? What is your folder strategy when working with images??

I'm a big fan of this Questions section of Blot since it lets me try to find solutions to problems on my own before reaching out to the contact email or asking a new question. However, it's hard to keep track of questions and when they are answered. Right now, I make a task to follow up on the question's URL and then periodically try to run back down the list to see if anything's changed. Would you consider adding a 'notify me' feature that sends an email or something when a particular question gets a new answer? Ideally, I could "subscribe" to any question, even if I hadn't asked it, since there are topics others have brought up that I'm eager to learn more about. I guess I'm thinking of something like Discourse, which I've seen other places use, but maybe you don't want to go down that route.

Is there a fairly straightforward way to set the permalink to the entry title rather than the date that is displayed for that entry from the entries list?

Any idea to why that is happening? I've been away from my blot recently, but started using again and am noticing that 1) the reset button doesn't work, 2) the sync is not happening (or seems stuck) and 3) i'm not allowed to choose the folder on google drive anymore?

Hi! Loving Blot and delighted to be moving towards it as my main platform. I've just been doing some minor tweaks to the Diary template - increasing the size of the text in the navigation bar with a slight adjustment to opacity. (Also tweaked the blockquote right margin font size which was a bit teeny for my feeble eyes.) I'd quite like to increase the size of the website name (and is it possible to add a small logo/image alongside the name?) as it is currently just a little smaller than H1 text. Any help appreciated - though I will understand if you re-direct me towards a developer as we're getting into custom template territory.

people elsewhere are reporting an issue with dropbox API which prevents syncing Bad input to API call Error in call to API function "files/ get_metadata": Unknown API function: / 2/files/get_metadata Path: /data see here : https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/API-function-get-metadata-started-to-fail/td-p/638921

I see there is a {{#is}} used in the entries.html for the blog template. Is there a list of these "helper" functions somewhere?

Can I make it so that the menu is shown with the accent colour rather than gray? I'm using (a slightly customised version of) the Blog template.

Is it ok that users can create new blogs at the same price of their existing blogs? If someone wants to blog about many topics, should they put everything on one blog or create several blogs? Is there a way to tag and sort posts accordingly? I also noticed that after logging in on blot.im it refreshes the page and the "log in" and "sign up" buttons are still there until the user clicks on "log in" again. It's not a big deal since the user knows what to do.

I am trying to post a few archived blog posts on my site, and I want to link to them manually, but I don't want them to show up in the blog roll or the page menus. I have been able to hide posts and pages from view, but when I do, the txt or md file doesn't process; it just shows up as monospace text which isn't user friendly. Is there a way to solve this?

I know that {{total_posts}} gets me the number of every published post. Is there a similar query that will give me just the number of posts in a given group (i.e. month). You can see what I'm trying to accomplish here:

Following up on this question I would like to find out more in detail how to "hard code the JSON variables into a script tag" when I need to work with them in JavaScript. For example the tags variable in the page's JSON structure, how can I access this in JavaScript? Do I read it out of the DOM , say, in the load event? Sorry, but I am a bit confused here.

All the Blot data like entries and tags are stored in a JSON structure associated with each page. (I mean the JSON data I can see when I add ?debug=true to the page.) When I'm on the page how can I access (and modify) this JSON info via JavaScript, say, in the load event? I assume the JSON structure is stored as an object somewhere in the DOM?

Hello! Do you have a way I can integrate with GoatCounter? I'm a software dev in my day job, so I'm totally ok with writing some custom JS on my site if there's a way to do that. Thanks! :D https://www.goatcounter.com/

A file in the Pages folder makes a link. Can there be multiple posts in that "link"? The result would be links to folders that contain tagged posts (or files put in that folder automatically tagged.) It looks like the Archive folder has been modified here to begin what I'm after.

Is it possible to require a password in order to access a site, or a post.

I do have two images in the blog I've written, but I don't want the thumbnail to be shown on the home page. How can I do that?

About this topic I asked a more specific question yesterday(*), but here a more general approach: Is there a way to mangle the value of variables in mustache via some sort of function? Also, in the specific case of tags, I saw that there are two variables: {{name}} and {{tag}}. According to the doco {{name}} is an "Alias for tag". So can I somehow tweak how this alias is generated, say always cut of "cat-" from its value if the value always starts with "cat-"? (*) But I'm not sure whether the other question "drowned", because I myself had added a comment which appears as an answer...