Questions
Phantom menu links?
Overnight, I've had for extra links appear in my menu named "page one," "page two", "page three", and "page four." They link to nothing. I have 3 actual pages in my Pages folder - Tenets, Colophon, About - all of which show up. I also added a link to the home page through the dashboard which also appears There are 5 image files in the pages folder, all prefixed with and underscore. So... not sure where those are coming from? Where should I look to remove them?
A quick way to find the source file for a post on my site?
Is there an easy way that when you I visit a page on my Blot site - I can quickly find and open the original file in my folder, via say Dropbox?
Tags on the Diary template
In the header of the Diary template, the tags that appear next to the title: Are these automatically every tag on the site? Is there any way to edit which tags/categories appear in this space? Or have nothing appear there?
Author and keyword metadata?
I tried using the author and keyword metadata in my post. For some reason, it wasn't displaying on the published post. I am wondering if that's how it is supposed to be. Here is a sample format: Date: June 26, 2023 Tags: Style Keywords: summer essentials, style, dress, woven bag, sunscreen, sunglasses Author: anchor
Adding a carousel of my instagram account?
Is it possible to have a carousel of my instagram account linked to a page on my blog?
How to change text color within a post?
I would like to set a color for particular sections of text in my post. The intended use would be something like: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all too short a date; I want to make the bolded text red, and the italicized text blue. I am currently using the stock Blog template and uploading my posts as .docx files. (My bold/italics/underline and embedded images upload this way, but not text colors.) Where do I change my process to let me apply color to particular passages of text? Should I be uploading in a different file format, or modifying style.css in the Blog template?
Linking images from Social Media?
How can I link images from social media, say, Instagram for example without the caption or borderline showing in a post.
Is there a way to password protect a site?
I want to restrict access - is it possible to password protect my site?
How to add a new font?
I'm looking to add some free fonts which are to my liking and I want to apply it all over my site. How can I upload a new set of font pack?
What happened to the Rosa template?
I’m asking if you can help me about the Rosa template that was previously used by default onto Blot. I’d like to use that one in my brand new blog, how do I do it?
When linking from a landing page to another page, the linked txt file is rendered without CSS
Using home.txt with the following syntax: Link: / [Page 1](/Pages/page1.txt) The resultant page is shown without styles. How do I link this page to a template?
How do I get text on my homepage?
Not sure if it's an error on my google drive sync or if I'm just going about this wrong. I've been able to navigate through pages, blot doesn't support videos does it?
Turn website off temporarily?
is it possible to turn off my website temporarily? I do not want to delete my account but make the site inaccessible for a limited time. Best regards Florian Guckelsberger
Disable pagination?
I noticed that even when I don't use pagination in my template, typing /page/1 .. /2 .. etc. produces the pages with some result (depending on what's in the template). It's not a big deal, but I wonder if there is a way to disable pagination all along? I tried to create a redirect rule "/page/(.*)" > "/" but it didn't work out either
Recent entries filtered by tag?
I seems odd to me that I can easily filter "all_entries" array with "tagged.TagName" but I can not do the same with "recent_entries." If I use the combination inside a template it will output all "TagName" tagged entries within the last 30 entries. I guess the other option is "truncate" the output, but I couldn't find how to do that in the template language reference. I understand that there is a script option, but I'm already hacking too many things on blot with scripts and it's getting dangerous (( {{#all_entries}}{{#tagged.TagName}} <<-- how to limit output ? to X entries --| <a href="{{url}}">{{title}}</a> {{#tagged.TagName}}{{/all_entries}}
Turn Title into Link to Post
I am sure I am just missing something easy so I am sorry for this. Using blog template with full posts, wanted the title to also be link like the date is?
Choose different fonts for blog posts and site title/site menus
I'm new to Blot and have a question regarding font customization. I'd like to use different fonts for my blog posts (incl. blog title and body) and the title & menus of the blog. I forked an existing template but the font picker applied the new font to all the text in the blog. I dug around the source code but couldn't figure out how to achieve it.
How can I customise the number of items in a list?
I have display popular_tags on my home page. I want to limit it to the top 10 or 15 most popular tags. How can I do that?
Discord links and metadata
I've noticed that all blot blogs no longer show the metadata when posted as a link to discord. This is true for every blot site I've found and tried, including ones with custom domains. There does seem to be a workaround: the metadata will show up if you view it as a preview of a different template, a draft, or with ?scheduled=true on the end of the link. Any idea what's happening?