Updated a few things with the Micro.blog publishing backend, including a new “Rebuild” button on the Account → “View logs” page. Useful for doing a slower, complete sync of your blog if anything was accidentally out of date.
@manton hi Manton, congrats on the email newsletters rollout recently. Is it possible to show an excerpt at the bottom of a longer post, e.g. so that readers have to click "read more" to view the full post? (like this).
I was thinking might be handy for some of my longer posts, like one I just posted.
@jasraj No, that's not currently possible. If you're using weekly/monthly emails, you could post a summary as a new post and then use categories to exclude the full-length post. In the future, we may want more control over the email template so truncation could be controlled.
@jasraj @frostedechoes @crossingthethreshold Oh yeah, thanks for clarifying. I was just talking about newsletters.
@manton @crossingthethreshold @frostedechoes thank you all, I hadn't made it so clear in my original question to Manton, but I was actually asking about the blog itself (not newsletters), so this is very useful to know! I hadn't realised this.
ps. I'm a fan of the theme @pimoore (and others) use, I've asked him about it previously... I hadn't realised he was its developer :)
@jasraj @manton @crossingthethreshold @frostedechoes That’s correct, Tufte has the option to enter a post summary using a shortcode. This has different font formatting which will show on both the index page and the article page itself. When I have posts with a summary I manually enter the <!--more--> tag immediately afterward, and that will truncate the post on the index page at that point.
So in Markdown you would have the following:
# Post title
{{< summary >}}Summary (tl;dr) here{{< /summary >}}<!--more-->
Post starts here…
If you don’t include a summary with a titled post, it will truncate after a certain length so long as it doesn’t split a word or html tag.
@pimoore hi Pete, I'm experimenting with the Tufte theme. How might I change the 'reply by email' mail-to address at the bottom of each post, from the custom email provided to my own?
@jasraj Thanks for checking out Tufte! That parameter can be changed in the config.json template, just scroll down to the bottom where you see “mailto”: and change the email address in the second set of quotes to yours (leave the quotes in). Also right above that is the subtitle parameter which you can also change to be whatever you want.
@pimoore @jasraj Is it possible to make the "reply by email" feature available in other themes? Via a plugin? I don't want to enable comments on my photoblog but want a way for someone to get in touch with me if they need to.
@pimoore @pratik @jasraj I managed to get it to work on my blog, and helped two others do the same. A plug-in would be perfect, as no fiddling would be needed, and I’m not even sure if this trick works on all themes, but I’m willing to share the way I got it to work, if that helps. It’s very VERY much based on Tufte’s implementation, and it requires some editing of the layouts, but it works.
@pratik 😊 Here you go: Reply by Email.
Please let me know if it’s clear, it’s a work in progress, as usual.
@maique Much thanks and looks straightforward. Except I don't have a config.json file in the theme (Kiko) I'm using right now. Am I already obsolete?
@pratik Oops! That’s one question I don’t know how to reply to, sorry. I’m using a very slightly modified Kiko, and it was there 😔 Maybe some of the others can help here? My knowledge only goes this far…
@pratik In your custom theme, you can create a new template called config.json with just the field you want to customize and Micro.blog will automatically merge it into the default config.
@maique Thank you! 😊 Your well-written instructions inspired me to build the plug-in. By the way, you may want to change ?subject=Reply to to ?subject=Reply%20to%20 in your template. Read here for an explaination. @pratik