Tagged ‘developers’

Is it possible to set the date format of posts so they include the day of the week?

When I put the following in my template, I get the error Unclosed section "active}

<div class="menu">
{{#menu}} 
  {{#active}}
    <a href="{{{url}}}" class="light active">{{label}}</a>
  {{/active}} 
  {{^active}}
    <p>hello</p>
  {{/active}}
  <a href="{{{url}}}" class="light">{{label}}</a>
{{/menu}}
</div>

Is there any way to ensure that the mobile phone experience is similar to desktops, tablets. I find the margins are completely cut off on mobile so it all looks very tight and ugly.

I would like to know how to have a section in the blog containing posts independent of those on the home page. For example, I would like to create a page called 'News' on which to put posts that do not appear on the home page.

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?

Is there a smart way to add a discrete copyright statement (eg. C 2023 XX, all rights reserved) as a footer to all pages? I'm using Diary template. Thanks!

Is it possible to get the length of the post content? It could be used to calculate reading time, display the post in a different layout, etc . if we have a way to get the number of characters.

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

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 would like to check if we can set custom 404 messages? Thank you.

I love the hover preview used in the bigfoot footnotes within the magazine theme. Just wondering if there was a way to do similar when hovering over wikilinks (similar to that of wikipedia or obsidian)?

I'm using the default magazine template, and am wondering how it choses which tags to show in the left-hand menu. It seems like it's limited to 5 – is it the first 5 that are used in posts, or the top 5 most frequently used? I'm wondering how to change them. Thanks! :)

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

Looking for a way to show the nested tags structure in the nav bar. For example Folder structure being:

• [Tag A]
  • [Tag B]
  • [Tag C]
• [Tag D]

I would want to have the same indentation and hierarchy in the nav bar, and ideally being apple to collapse and uncollapse them would be great.

Is there a way to do this with the current templates?

Is there currently a way to replicate Jekyll style site-wide metadata? I am trying to use Blot for my teaching materials and there are several bits of information (deadlines for papers etc) that need to appear in several different entries; being able to define them in a single (yaml/json?) data file and include them in the entry as, for example {{site.metadata.deadline1}} would be really useful. Thanks!

Is there an easy way to create hanging indents (i.e., any text that runs past the margin would wrap with a four-space indentation)? I can do this with single lines using HTML paragraph rules, but this creates some spacing problems.

This may be a bit of a niche concern, but would help me format poetry to work better on phone screens.

Google Search Console mentioned a lot of pages without user-selected canonical, and after researching a little, I learned that it's better for static sites to mention each original URL (entry or page) as a link rel canonical in the head. I think that's what is better, not sure.

I managed to do this perfectly for entries, but using {{{absoluteURL}}} in the head, between {{#entry}} and {{/entry}}. But this doesn't work for the site homepage, or pages like archives, etc.

Is there a Reference item that would work for every page of the site, and not just entries?

This might be quite basic but I can’t work it out. Please can you advise me how I can show the full entry of blog posts on the home page using the Magazine template, instead of the summaries? Ideally the pagination would still work the same using the 'posts per page' setting – I just want to display the full entries for the posts.

I know I could use the blog template for this but I prefer the layout of the Magazine template apart from this one thing.

Is it possible to remove my website title from the browser tab, just on the homepage? I'd just like it to say "Home" without it being followed by the name of my website. Thanks!

I plan to use Blot to blog in Arabic – do you forsee any problems in using Arabic letters in the text files to be uploaded?

I will develop a new template that supports and renders Arabic correctly. I have a good knowledge with HTML/CSS, and the documentations for theme development will help me.