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Possible to add folder as a sub-domain?

Is it possible to add a folder of documents that become a sub-domain to my main site. e.g. newfolder/mydomain.com?

Favicon not displaying?

So, for whatever reason, my favicon for my site isn't displaying on tabs despite displaying on my website. Any idea why? Site: https://www.bookcraft.blog/

Is Blot under development?

I'm just wondering whether Blot is still in development. I don't see many people using this platform. I'm just a bit concerned about the longevity of my blog. Cheers.

How do you get posts to show up on /page/1?

Per the instructions I found in the "How to use Blot" section I have made a page called "Posts" that links to "/page/1"; however, nothing shows up there. I tried with no "Link: " metadata in my post and didn't get the post on my homepage or "/page/1". I also tried making link to "Link: /", which obviously put the post on my homepage, but not on "/page/1". Any advice would be much appreciated. I love the theoretical simplicity of Blot, but I'm struggling to get something seemingly simple working how I expect it to.

Google Drive sync setup

Hi there, blot was able to automatically create a root folder for my blog but no other contents were added. I created a folder for Posts and upload a markdown file to test. Still, nothing is showing up in prod nor is the .md file getting recognized in blot's > sync view. Please advise, thanks! https://hcde.blot.im/

New local template

If I want to create my own custom template, do I just need to create the Templates folder, the folder with the template source code, a package.json, and then the various template files themself? Will the blot.im hosted UI recognize that I added a new template locally?

Payments history and invoices?

Where can i download the invoices or the history of payments / receipts? Thank you very much

Create a section on a page showing entries with a specific tag

Forgive me if this has been answered elsewhere, but I couldn't find it when perusing existing questions. I'd like to set up some pages as homes for my various projects, many of which have their own tags for related blog posts. I know that you can create a new .html file with the syntax on https://blot.im/templates/developers/examples/all-posts-with-a-tag, but I was hoping to do it with a regular page made with a .md file. It'd be much easier to update the rest of the content that way. Is that possible?

Remove "Links to this post"?

At the bottom of the default template, on some pages there is a "Links to this post" block. How does one remove this?

Can I reset my template?

If I fork a template and I mess it up, can I easily switch back to the default template?

Solution to Light / Dark Mode for the Blog Template

Is there an existing solution to adding a toggle switch or using device settings for light / dark mode? I'm using the Blog template. Thank you.

Modal Window for video and audio?

Is there a baked in modal window I can access for video and audio presentation? Kinda like how images are presented.

Is there a size limit for Blot's git repos?

Just wondering if there's a maximum total size or a maximum filesize. Now that Blot supports wikilinking I'm thinking about making my site quite a bit bigger...

Different themes for different devices.

Is it possible to use portfolio theme on web and magazine theme for mobile in parallel? If so, how?

{{#unless page}} not working?

Hi, I am trying to render some elements in an entry.html template only if it is a post but not a page. To do so, I have: {{#unless page}} <div id="TOC"> {{> toc}} </div> {{/unless}} so that I can only load a table of contents on appropriate pages. However, this seems to not work. On all views, whether page or post, this seems to still load the toc. What is happening? What might I be doing wrong?

Recover links to blog and archive pages?

When creating my blog, I deleted the links on the links page to the Archive page and Blog page. Is it possible to re-create them? When I simply add those same links again, they don't reappear.

Expired certificate for previews

Not so much a question as an observation. It looks like the certificate for the preview domain has expired, so blog previews are not working.

Self-hosted version of Blot?

As a huge Blot fan I truly cannot consider any alternative for any reason. But when it comes to managing your own server, I was wondering if there'll be a version of Blot that can be self-hosted one day?

No such remote 'origin'

I have initialized an empty repository with a first commit and a few files, but when following the instructions for adding an existing repository here, I get error: No such remote 'origin' Have I missed a step?

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