Questions

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

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

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

Google blocked blot so I cant connect to my drive and update my site. has this happened to anyone else and how did you get around it?

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.

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.

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?

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?

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?

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?

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

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.

I found something intriguing: Some of the Blot templates render the title of a blog entry (as you can set it in the metadata) nicely as a heading, others don't do so. For example Isola renders it, but Magazine doesn't. So for Magazine you would need to repeat the title as na explicit Markdown heading. This might be desirable -- or not so. In any case the inconsistency makes it hard to switch between templates. So my question now is: What's the standard here? Is there even a wider standard beyond Blot?

Despite removing the file and ensuring it's gone from the Google Drive folder, I can't seem to get rid of a duplicate blog post. I've tried the "Fix your folder" option as well.

Is there a way to not include posts with a set tag in the RSS feed?

It's been over a week since I posted questions and emailed support for migrating my blog from Wordpress. I have since begun migrating it over manually but this lack of presence of support for this long has me concerned I may have made the wrong move coming here.

I've been getting this error when I try to sync Dropbox, change to a different client, or reset my folder, but this message in orange prevents from doing anything. Is there a fix?

I've selected to show the blog avatar on the header. And I also added a subtitle/tagline to the blog title. But the problem is that the blog title is vertically center-aligned to the blog's avatar. So there remains a gap between the title and the subtitle. You can see this currently on my blog. How can I make the blog title and subtitle margin/padding/alignment work independent of the avatar/header's? I want to be able to align the blog title and subtitle with respect to the avatar but as per my requirement. And also be able to control the spacing between the title and subtitle. I edited many elements in style.css but nothing worked. Kindly help with this, thank you! For everyone's ref, I had previously asked around adding a tagline or sub-heading to the blog.

I added a post and then deleted it, yet it still shows on my blog. I've cleared cache and tried other browsers. The post .md file is gone from the Dropbox folder, and gone from the web view of my blog folders, yet still it remains. Actually, two copies of it appear on the blog. Ideas?

There's a preview/demo page for the blog template that you've put up recently that has some design capabilities I'd like to play with, especially the images and text hanging in the right column, and the potential for full width content. Are they things that are enabled in the template already, or do I have to add some code to make them work? Thanks.