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I recently learned about Djot which is derived heavily from CommonMark but has more features and is generally like a stricter Markdown. It's by John MacFarlane who is also behind Pandoc so the conversion is well-supported would look something like this: djot -t pandoc mydoc.dj | pandoc -f json -s -t gfm -o mydoc.md I'm incredibly interested in trying this out for authoring my blog content.

I am using the Reference template and saving Bear Notes files as Markdown. When I do this, it works properly, except on the site's front page, where the thumbnail would be, it's just text rendered in a box. When I click on it, it loads the proper page and shows me all the text and images properly formatted. But is there a way to have the image appear on the front page? When I export the exact same file from Bear Notes as DocX, the thumbnail DOES appear, but then the text margins are as wide as the browser, rather than the width of the image. So, I guess I'm asking if there's a way to make the thumbnail appear on a MD file or, if not, limit the margins of the DOCX file to the same width as the image? You can see samples here: https://jazznotjazz.blot.im/ The thumbnail one is DOCX and the blank square is MD. Clicking thru they display different. Would like the thumbnail-ness of the docx with the layout of the MD. In case I add more posts while trying to figure it out, this question is referring to the two posts at the bottom of the front page. One is labeled docx - hank mobley... and the other is beside it. Thank you!

Been trying to publish a new post and image for about a day. Git is failing with a gateway timeout: % git push Enumerating objects: 9, done. Counting objects: 100% (9/9), done. Delta compression using up to 8 threads Compressing objects: 100% (6/6), done. error: RPC failed; HTTP 504 curl 22 The requested URL returned error: 504 send-pack: unexpected disconnect while reading sideband packet Writing objects: 100% (6/6), 1.22 MiB | 20.00 KiB/s, done. Total 6 (delta 3), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 0 fatal: the remote end hung up unexpectedly Everything up-to-date Anyone else seeing this?

I've deleted the archive option from the link's list and the button to add link it's not working to put it back.

THe message i get is this: "This app is blocked This app tried to access sensitive info in your Google Account. To keep your account safe, Google blocked this access."

It's pretty annoying to have a redirect notice for every link I mention in a post, is there a way to link while circumventing the notice? edit: I think I solved my own problem by removing https:// from each link.

One of my sites has become completely inaccessible for managing via Blot's interface and shows 'Nothing published yet.' when visiting the site in a browser. What's going on?

Does Blot support multi-line values for YAML frontmatter? no matter what format I try, whenever I call it via a template, it seems to break the page layout, even if the YAML is valid. Conversely, if i switch to Blot style metadata, everything works as expected. To illustrate, this Blot style metadata works fine: longtext: this is a multi line but this YAML Frontmatter does not: --- longtext: |- here is a multi line --- the YAML metadata is rendered as: here is a multi line –> and the raw HTML is: <p>here</p> is a multi line –&gt; i also can't seem to figure out what is causing the –> to be rendered. so it seems like the newline characters are being rendered, but not wrapped in <p> tags (as i would expect, and how the Blot style metadata seems to handle it.

I'm creating a custom archives.html of sorts. When using {{date}}, is there any way to get it to display as relative? I'd only like to do so on this one specific page.

Has anyone integrated a Shopify store into Blot?

If I put an e.g. &nbsp; literal string inside a code fence: myString.replace(" ", "") That renders literally as a space, so I need to manually encode the ampersand &amp;nbsp;: myString.replace("&nbsp;", "") Then Blot actually renders encoded characters vs a literal non-breaking space. Perhaps it's an issue of properly handling ampersands?

Has anyone found a way to sync the git connector with a github repo?

I'm thinking of switching from Commento to Komments to save money. For now that would mean having to create a Komments URL for each post by hand. Is there a chance you might integrate it as an additional options for comments, so that every new post would automatically create a corresponding Komments URL? Apparently that should be possible via the API.

I wrote a couple styles inside a prefers-color-scheme: dark media query. My selectors have the same specificity, but are placed below the styles for the regular light mode. Somehow this ends up in a different source order on the web, making my intended dark mode styles not taking precedence. Is it possible that some server-side minification mixes up the source order of my selectors?

Hi there, I'm trying to take my site offline for a bit so I can work on it. I used to be able to just disable the template but when I click that it says that the template is disabled but the website is still active. Thanks for your help!

Hi. I haven't played around with my Blot website for a while and don't currently want it appearing in search results while I work on another project. I'm using a customized version of the diary template. In the head.html file in my Dropbox Templates/diary folder, I've added the line <meta name="robots" content="noindex"> within the <head> </head> tags (and not commented out). But it's not appearing in the rendered HTML. I know from the question that I'm doing somethings stupid: can you tell me what? Thanks!

This isn't a question, but I thought folks should be aware of the new markdown import/export capability in Google Docs. This seems like it could be useful to some Blot users who rely on Google Drive for sync.

In the past when I create a draft I would put the post image in my main root Media folder that way when I moved the draft to the publish folder i did not have to change the image path. Recently its not working or I have formatted something incorrectly that I can not see The new console view shows Dependencies: /drafts/⁨_Media/bag.jpeg, My structure is as follows: Apps Blot Media Drafts Pages Posts 2024 2023 So my draft post references the path to the main root _Media file I have tried the following using standard MD image format starting with [ ] (⁨_Media/sample.jpeg)(⁨Blot/_Media/sample.jpeg)(⁨apps/Blot/_Media/sample.jpeg)(/⁨apps/Blot/_Media/sample.jpeg) Can you please point out what i am not seeing thanks

A weird behaviour happens with large thumbnails for posts and pages. Take this test post for example. Here is the metadata included in the file txt file : Date: 26/05/2024 Summary: Du travail d'escroc Thumbnail: https://res.cloudinary.com/poirpom/image/upload/v1717446275/Tests/240603-9.jpg Slug: /encore-un-blog-post and here is the HTML code from the entry.html template : <div style="min-height:6rem;flex-direction:row;align-items:center;" class="flex mt3 pt3 "> <div class="w-100" style="margin-bottom: 2rem !important;"> <!-- Code supprimé et stocké dans FSnotes --> <div class="w-80"> <!-- suppression du pr4 --> <div class="hero"> {{{titleTag}}} <img src="{{{thumbnail.large.url}}}" style="min-width: 100%;min-height: 2px;background-color: #1D191E;margin-top: 20px;" /> <div class="summary">{{{summary}}} </div> </div> <div class="lh-copy" style="margin-top: 10px !important; text-align: right !important;"> <!-- bloc date et tags déplacés --> {{^page}} {{#date}}<a href="{{url}}" class="black-30 f5 no-underline"><span>{{#formatDate}}DD.MM.YYYY{{/formatDate}}</span></a>{{/date}} • <span class="black-50 f5">{{#tags}}<a href="/tagged/{{slug}}" class="no-underline">{{tag}}</a>{{^last}}, {{/last}}{{/tags}}</span> <!-- <hr class="intermediaire" /> --> {{/page}} </div> </div> </div> </div> I published the post — the thumbnail appeared just fine. if, for some reason, I update the text file of the post, save it, wait for blot to do its thing, then the thumbnail doesn't appear anymore on the page. Same happen with any blog post or any page. Each time I edit the content, thumbnail doesn't show up anymore. When I look at the inspector, src appears in the html code, but without any url (screenshot here). The only way i found to make the thumbnail image appear again is to regenerate all thumbnails through the reset your folder settings. (Which is no big deal, but kind of annoying). Is there something I am missing or doing wrong here ? Thanks in advance for any advice.

Recently, I setup a new site and tried to enable analytics using CloudFlare. I followed the simple instructions and added the correct id. Had this setup for about a week before I realized I wasn't getting any data upon repeated testing. Figured it might be an issue related to Cloudflare, so I figured I'd then try google to see if that worked. New analytics v4 id in place, but google is reporting that the tag isn't detected. Double checked the pages source and things look correct. I verified this similarly with CloudFlare and it was there in the source as well. Help? Site is videostorecowboy.com