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Org-Mode link syntax?

Typically when linking to another file in org-mode you would use this syntax: file:path/to/file.org However this doesn't work in blot. I'd love if this syntax would be implemented as C-c C-l defaults to this behavior. If this isn't possible with blot, what is the preferred syntax?

How would one go about implementing Tufte CSS??

I really like the look of tufte-css, available at github, but feel a bit intimidated about implementing it using Blot and the available templates. Does anyone have suggestions? (A dream would be if it became an available template out of the box…)

Twitter Cards

Is it possible have setup where every link shared on twitter adds twitter card with the logo/icon of my site as part of it. I don't put images in most posts and I know other sites have this as default. Thanks!

Change Archives URL

I would like to change the URL of the archive, but I can't find a way to do it. Instead of url/archives, I want the archive website to be accessible at url/blog. How can I change this?

Image as site title

Is there a way to replace the site title on the top left with an image, and still have it link to the landing page? The site is lookingout.io

"Failed to acquire folder lock"

I was creating a series of pages a few days ago—the first 10 worked perfectly, then things stopped updating from my dropbox sync. It looks like Dropbox is functioning fine, and I haven't changed any of my process for adding to blot, so I'm not sure what I broke! When I try to reset/fix my folder on https://blot.im/settings/client/fix, I get an orange error message that says "Failed to acquire folder lock." Any advice?

Ordering posts?

Is there a way to set the order of posts? Maybe be pre-fixing filenames or something like that?

What's your favorite text-editor?

Please share the text-editor you like to use with Blot

Managing a "Files" Folder

Hi I have a folder called "Files" as a subfolder of my "Blot" folder, as instructed. This is where I'm dropping images etc. that I want to appear in posts. I'm only just getting started but it's clear that the contents of this single folder are likely over time to become a bit of a jungle. Does anyone who's been at this for a good while have any sage advice to offer about the best way to manage Blot "resources" before I get into a mess? What's best practice? Thanks, Q

How to activate SSL certificate?

Hi everyone. New user here. I tried searching but couldn't find this. My blog with custom domain does not have HTTPS. How can I enable this? Thanks !

How to edit templates locally?

Hey everyone, where can I find the option to edit locally? I duplicated several templates to try to find that option, even went through the site source to try to find it.

Exclude posts with specific tags?

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

How to display the day of publication?

I have a template that presents entries by month and in that {{month}} {{year}} metadata works. But for each blog entry I want to include the day the blog was published. So if it was publised on the 20/4/2024 then just 20 would be returned. {{day}} would seem the logical construct but it does not work. I also can't find in the documentation where it says {{month}} & {{year}} are up to be used - if I could find that list, hopefully it might shed more light on all this. Thanks as ever.

Improving Reference template on small screens?

Is there any way to ensure that the mobile phone experience is similar to desktops, tablets. I find the margins are completely cut off on mobile so it all looks very tight and ugly.

What new templates would you like?

Blot currently has five templates – each has a specific purpose for a sort of website. Are there other use-cases you'd like to see? Other types of website you could make with Blot, that don't currently exist as a template?

What new file types would like Blot to support?

At the moment, Blot can turn five types of files into posts. We plan to expand this list in future – what file types would be useful to you?

Canonical URLs?

Google Search Console mentioned a lot of pages without user-selected canonical, and after researching a little, I learned that it's better for static sites to mention each original URL (entry or page) as a link rel canonical in the head. I think that's what is better, not sure. I managed to do this perfectly for entries, but using {{{absoluteURL}}} in the head, between {{#entry}} and {{/entry}}. But this doesn't work for the site homepage, or pages like archives, etc. Is there a Reference item that would work for every page of the site, and not just entries?

Posts reappearing in RSS

It looks like making a change to a post’s title (therefore changing the url) is sending that post back into the RSS feed. Is that expected behavior?

Adding a Mastodon Verification Link

Is there a way to add HTML to my links at the top of the page?I want to add a rel=me anchor tag for Mastodon verificatione.g.<a rel="me" href="https://mastodon.social/@Uhnnohn">Mastodon</a> It's the rel="me" attribute I cannot figure out how to add to the link

Syntax Highlighting

Can you see any reason why the Syntax Highlighting for the Javascript section in this post isn't showing? It appears to be trying to load the colors according to the HTML when I inspect the element, but none of the syntax colors are working. They were working earlier this evening.

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