Questions

How do you generate a sitemap.xml to add to Google Search Console?

I don't believe there's a built-in way for folks to subscribe to new blog posts via email. Is that something on the roadmap? Or does anyone know of a relatively easy third-party solution?

We plan to add support for merging multiple files into a single post on Blot. My question for you is, what should the syntax be? We need to indicate that a subfolder's files should be merged into a post, rather than become individual posts. Let's say you have a folder full of pictures of your trip to Italy. How should you indicate that instead of individual posts, per image, they should be merged into a single post automatically? A few options which come to mind: (Pictures from Italy) Pictures from Italy (album) Pictures from Italy -- -Pictures from Italy- {Pictures from Italy} Pictures from Italy.post Pictures from Italy > Pictures from Italy @\Pictures from Italy #Pictures from Italy # Pictures from Italy Pictures from Italy & Pictures from Italy + + Pictures from Italy A few constraints: use safe, cross-platform characters make the resulting folder good to look at make it non-language specific if possible (i.e. don't depend on english words) There's more information about multi-file posts on GitHub, but please feel free to share your thoughts here on there. I'm writing the underlying code required for the feature at the moment, and the syntax can be adjusted down the line before release.

I was wondering if it would be possible to use the 'Blog' template for most of my website, whilst also having some pages on my website using the 'Portfolio' template. Is this possible? How can it be done if so?

In my other note taking apps (iA writer, Obsidian) an inline formula would be written as $f(x+y)=f(x)f(y)$ and a display formula would look like $$\int e^{ikx}\mathrm dx = 2\pi\delta(x)$$. As in, single dollar sign gives inline formula and double dollar sign a display formula. Note that inline/display dichotomy does not affect only where the formula goes, but also how certain commands display (like the limits of sums and integration change). Additionally, the formulas in those other apps look much cuter, less angular and more smooth Is there a way to change this behaviour? I would like the writing experience to be as close as possible to my other apps (i do a lot of maths typesetting, and I plan to do it on the blog too).

I want to add a second template page similar to the tagged pages, so I added in package.json: "views": { "tagged2.html": { "url": "/tagged2" "partials": { "title": "...", "description": "..." } }, ... } However this merely defines a URL http://myname.blot.im/tagged2 without parameters. That's why http://myname.blot.im/tagged2/mytag gives a 404. So how can I define a new view/template page which accepts a tag name as parameter?

If I have something in my YAML front matter, can I display that in my post? This does not seem to work when placed in the markdown file. Date: September 15th, 2022blah: Apple {{metadata.blah}}

I know I can show all blog tags with all_tags in the side area of my blog site. Is there a way to omit some tags from this list? (The omitted tags I'd rather like to list as (manually added) page links - as broad categories.)

Trying to conceptualize how to set up my portfolio site and I was wondering if it's possible to return a more refined list of tags than either {{#all_tags}} or {{#popular_tags}}. Specifically, I'd love to be able to display a list of tags that are subhierarchical to a tag folder they reside in. Using examples from the docs, let's imagine a site set up like: [Pictures]›[Sicily] [Pictures]›[Venezia] [Essay]›[Roma] And calling {{#all_tags}} {{tagged.Pictures}}... would return the tag links [Sicily] and [Venezia] (which could be used to generate categorical navigation links as in the nav of the portfolio theme which is the base of the fork). Is there a different way to approach this or is a function similar to this possible?

I'm using Commento, but the problem is that it is lacking visibility. How could I add a "Comments" link under the post date on the left, on each post, on the main page? Thanks.

I'm using the magazine template and would like to turn my tags page (/tags) into my blog's landing page (homepage). Is it possible?

Hello, any idea when PDFs would be supported? It is really difficult to save web pages while keeping formatting, various content, etc. on iPad or iPhone (Share/Save to Dropbox). Many thanks!

I'm using the Blog template and wanted to add my own name -- By XYZ -- as a tagline/sub-head/caption that should appear right under the blog name (header) but in a smaller font (where I'd also like to change the font and color of the tagline). Please let me know how to achieve this, thank you!

I realize that using the following metadata: Link: / at the top of a post will make it a "landing page", but what I can't figure out is how to avoid the first line of text becoming the name of the page in my links list, without inserting an image at the top of the page (I discovered this fixed the issue by accident when I added an image at the top of certain pages). But without an image, if I want a page named "contact" (for example") I need to have "contact" at the top of the page.

I want to upload images to embed within posts. I DON'T want these images to appear as their own posts! I figured moving them into the Files folder would achieve this, but... apparently no such luck!

Is there any way to switch the color variables for background color and text color in the Blog template when someone is using dark mode? I know how to do it with a media query in CSS, but I'm not sure how to do it with variables defined in a JSON file. Thanks!

Blot's new UX is gorgeous, but it became painfully hard to edit a template's source code, as the preview images on the left render in several different sizes and push the rest of the screen far-right.

Hey, what would be the easiest way to condense the space between posts in the Blog template? When a post is short, the space between that and the next post looks large.

Is it possible to modify the RSS feed so that an entry's tags will be declared as categories in the feed? I'm asking because I'm switching to Feedmail for email subscriptions and they have a feature that lets users subscribe to or exclude specific categories. Would be great if I could take advantage of that feature.

Was just looking around this evening trying to figure out how the package.json works and not really sure i understand what is going on. for instance it seems to have "locals", "partials", and "url" available under "views". Is that it? Also it appears that you can set up stuff that will show up in the template editor via package.json. How does that work? Also, curious how partials work in the context of views (pages). I see in the latest templates you're always referencing them as {{>partialname}} but in some the older templates they are referenced either as partials or as variables. (was fooling with Marfa). Can it work either way as it seems it can and its just a convention thing? Sorry a lot of questions :) But I'd love a more in-depth idea of how everything fits together in that file.