Questions

Is there a way to hide the alt text/image description for images posted in the Blog template? I'd like to be a good netizen and have the alt text available for those who may need it, but don't want it necessarily showing as the image description below the image itself. Thanks!

If I'm using custom metadata, is there a way to set a default in the template?

I'm still investigating this other question and as part of that I'm back and forth looking at what the template debug is giving me and what I'm trying to access. One thing that I'm seeing now though is that, when inside of #entry, I'm able to use #allEntries, even though that's declared outside the scope of entry. The docs mention searching for parent keys so I suspect that is why. However, when I try to do the same for #menu, nothing is rendered if I'm inside #entry, even though menu/allEntries exist at the same json level and are outside of entry. Is this a bug or intended behavior? I'd definitely like #menu to be used inside of an entry, especially given that I need entry metadata.

I'd like dates to appear just as month and year. Without the day. Is that possible? If so, where would I make the change? Using the Magazine template. Thank you!

I like the minimalism of Blot so I don't wanna add much. Just would be nice to be able to change the color of the banner & text

Everything was working fine with my site but from last txt files, is not showing the images correctly, is showing the titles and date instead, and I don't understand why. This is the site: https://www.appinspo.com/

I'd like to hide a link on my homepage. I thought using the below conditional on the page variable would work but it didn't work and the text is hidden everywhere. Any ideas? {{^page}}The text I want to hide.{{/page}}

Google search console says my pages aren't indexed because "there are pages with redirect." How do I fix it? Thank you.

I would like a specific blog post to be the default home page of my blog, so that I have a consistent single welcome page. Is this possible?

Hello. I have been trouble with the dropbox syncing feature. For the past week blot.im stopped syncing for up to half an hour. Right now the folder does not sync. I have tried troubleshooting the issue with dropbox but it did not help. Anything I should do or try? Thank you

Hello. Thanks for blot.im. It's peaceful. I am using the Blog template. I have a Markdown blog post under 001-building-my-own-webpage.md which has some custom metadata (including a Date) and is showing up fine on the website. This is the full metadata: Menu: No Tags: Tech, Web Development Link: building-my-own-webpage Date: 22-03-2024 Thumbnail: ../imgs/_banner_sgs_right_1.jpeg Pois: yeah Here's an extract of my entry.html <div class="entry"> {{#entry}} {{{html}}} {{#tags.length}} <div class="wide"> <hr class="minimal"> </div> <div class="left-label"> <h5>Tags</h5> {{#tags}} <a class="small tag" href="/tagged/{{slug}}">{{name}}</a> {{/tags}} </div> {{/tags.length}} <div> <p>Posted by {{metadata.Date}}</p> <p>Posted by {{metadata.Pois}}</p> </div> {{#date}} <hr class="minimal"> <div class="left-label"> <h5>Date</h5> {{date}} </div> {{/date}} While the tags show correctly, nothing else appears at the end of the entry: Image: https://i.imgur.com/Ze9NDVq.png Other symptoms which suggest something is not correct in entry rendering: RSS feed is empty, Archives > Newest also doesn't show any post. I feel I'm missing something simple, but can't quite put my finger on what. Let me know what else can help in troubleshooting. Thanks in advance.

I wanted to delete one of my blogs but ran into an error "Could not process your request" after clicking the delete button.

As David said, the folder "is a self-contained stand-alone site. If you download this folder and place its contents in your own site’s folder, you will get the same site." How can I use folder as template for my site on Blot if I can't upload the source code? Should I copy&paste what I want into my current template?

If I search for a phrase (multiple words), the results seem to include posts with either word rather than both/all words. I would prefer the search use AND not OR by default (without something like typing "AND" in the query). Is there any way to change the behavior? Currently, the results get very "noisy" because many of the results aren't relevant. Thanks.

I'm trying to display the first post in a custom page "writings.html" but if I use the {{#first}} it doesn't show anything. Could you help me? {{#allEntries}} {{#tagged.Writings}} {{#first}} <header class=" centered-content"> <a href="{{url}}"><h1>{{title}}</h1></a> <span class="date"> {{#formatDate}} Do MMM YYYY {{/formatDate}} </span> </header> <section class="writings centered-content"> {{{body}}} </section> {{/first}} {{/tagged.Writings}} {{/allEntries}}

I really want to connect the gallery with a grid, for example "lightGallery". I've spent a lot of time trying to embed the gallery, gone through dozens of options, and all possible combinations, nothing works. As if something is blocking or not loading scripts and styles. Maybe the structure in the template is different from the usual one, or I'm doing something wrong. The example is for the Magazine template. Did I understand the structure correctly: "Index.html" is → "header.html" The "head" element, which is usually at the beginning of "Index.html" (header.html), is here a separate file → "head.html". The "body" element, which is usually in the middle of "Index.html" (header.html), is also a separate file → "footer.html". It follows that to "head.html" I add references to the styles (which I created separately in the directory), for example at the beginning, after "meta". Next, I add the script to "footer.html", also at the beginning. Then I add a link to the photo to the document I created in Google Drive, as indicated on the sites of gallery developers (although in their examples, the gallery is placed in the "body"). But nothing works, styles and scripts do not work at all, static images are displayed in a column, when clicking on them, it displays an error that there is no such page. I usually add styles in css-layout.css and for everything else it works, sometimes up to css-theme.css. If you need to add scripts - I add to script.js, it also works for others. But galleries usually require separate large stylesheets and scripts. Did I understand the structure correctly? Is it even possible to create a gallery similar to "lightGallery" or is my attempt futile? Maybe the template has restrictions on connecting individual js and css files? Maybe I'm adding the code in the wrong place, or in the wrong format to accept the template? Or do you need to add links to files only at the beginning / at the end of the file / or after a certain time? All I need for happiness is a gallery with a grid, with the possibility of clicking on a photo, then displaying it in its original size, as well as switching to neighboring ones with the help of arrows. Like a small wish, but something completely impossible. I will be grateful for tips, help, links to working versions of the galleries.

Hi! Wondering if Blot works fine if a site is expected to receive a heavy amount of traffic