Questions

I want to have a curated list of topics on the main menu. I can do this using tags (by putting the tagged url in the menu), but this doesn't allow me to have a custom introductory text for each tag. Say I want to put Coffee and Cities on my menu. I want to write something about coffee in general, followed by a list of all posts tagged coffee. Ditto, for Cities. The introductory text is different for the two topics, so I can't just put it in tagged.html Will be grateful for tips that'll help me achieve this. Thanks.

If I have tags that contain chars like å,ä,ö should they work, i.e. if I click on the tags should I see a list with posts? The reason I ask is that when I click on an "ascii tag", I get a list of posts with this tag. But if I click on a tag like "väder" then no entries are listed - not even the post with the tag I clicked on. Is this a bug, or am I doing something wrong?

Hello Blotters It appears that the Markdown parser on blot.im is not parsing emoji delimiters, even though I believe they are supported by the Markdown syntax. Emoji delimiters are represented by colons and are used to insert emojis into a document. For example, :smile: should render a smiling emoji. I am wondering if you're using the correct emoji delimiter. Do I need to install a library in my HTML to fix this issue? I am not sure how to proceed and would appreciate some guidance in resolving this little challenge. Many thanks!

Is there an easy way to change the displayed date format to something else? I use the Essay template. I would like to have yyyy-MM-dd, as in 2021-06-20 for today's date.

I have seen your demo on uploading a separate HTML file, but how can I embed a snippet inside a md file?

I know there's a question about time formats in the list below, I had something similar about date formats. When I've forked both Magazine and Blog templates there's a pull-down option to change the date format to Day/Month/Year, but the dates as shown on screen for each individual post always remain Month/Day/Year.

Is it possible to embed a Soundcloud song into a blog post?

Would it be possible to use your next / previous templating on posts to only show the next or previous post for a specific tag?

When sharing links to my website on social media, how can I get thumbnails to show up?

I was wondering what is the easiest way to embed Buy Me a Coffee into a website on Blot?

In the developer docs it says Check if there is a template whose route matches the request’s path. Render the template if it matches. Check if there is a file which matches the request’s path in your blog’s folder. Send the file as a response if it matches. First I didn't really understand this (me being locked into another model of thinking) but if I've understood things correctly it means that when I link to a page, for example 'archive', it will use the archive template file to see what needs to be done. Questions: What are the "standard" templates that blot expects to see? archives, entries, entry, error, feed, search, tagged?? If a template use partials then it becomes possible to call that partial and it will be rendered. At least this is what I see when I call "head.html" and "header.html" (using the Blog template). Have I understood things correctly?

Although the logo is centered when i click "preview", when the website is fully published it is still stuck on the left corner. Live Website What I see on preview

I have tags showing on my archive page and also my main page. I'm experimenting with using tags to help me build a custom RSS feed. I would like to exclude these tags from the Popular Tags list and even from the post itself. Ideally, these tags would be internal for me to use but not visible to the user. Is this possible?

I've been getting emails from Google Analytics about needing to update to the new Google Analytics tags and setting up Google Analytics 4. I'm unclear if Blot supports either of these things

Is it possible to list {{#allEntries}} in reverse order—oldest at the top; newest at the bottom?

I'm trying to remove the feature images from both the recent list and tagged pages when using the magazine theme but can't seem to figure this one out. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

When I'm on a post, it would be nice to see other posts matching the current posts tag(s). I played with this a little in my custom theme, but couldn't figure out how to filter the entries by the matching tag(s).

I have purchased some font files (.ttf, .woff) which I would like to use on my blog. How do I change the font?

I’m attempting to set up my Blot blog with my domain but my DNS provider doesn’t allow for ALIAS records to be set. I ended up just setting up an A record that points to Blot’s direct IP address. Would you anticipate this ever causing any issues?

Just wondering if there is any way to use metadata tags in markdown links? At the moment this markdown: ` Becomes, this HTML: <img src="/%7B%7Burl%7D%7D_images/picture.jpg" alt="caption"> The brackets just get encoded. Can this be avoided? Or should I just use HTML to start with?