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⌘ Transcripts plugin
Manton has added automated transcripts of podcast episodes. Instructions are at Podcast transcripts - Podcasting - Micro.blog Help Center:
When you create a blog post that links to that MP3 with an audio tag (which Micro.blog on the web will do automatically for you), Micro.blog will associate the transcript with the blog post. By default, it will also include a link to the transcript from the published blog post.
Options to control this feature are available by installing the plug-in “Transcripts”. From the plug-in’s settings, you can disable transcription or disable the blog post transcript link.
There are additional instructions for those with Custom themes.
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⌘ Reply by Email plugin now obfuscates email addresses
I’ve just rolled out a new version of my ✍️ Reply by Email plug-in. Now with email obfuscation to combat email harvesting & keep your inbox safer! 🛡️
Remember, no solution is 100% foolproof against web scraping spam bots. For best protection, combine with a service like Apple’s Hide My Email!
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⌘ Plugin cloning from GitHub now includes .webp and .ico
Manton says on 28 March 2023:
Added .webp and .ico to theme and plug-in cloning from GitHub. Previously Micro.blog would skip those files.
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⌘ Use the Custom Home page plugin and link to Posts
One of the Plugins available to hosted Micro.Blogs is Custom home page, which
replaces your blog home page with text instead of recent posts
.That led to a question on the Help Forum:
Is there any way to have the modified main page and have a menu item for “Blog” that goes to posts?
The answer came from jsonbecker:
Make a custom template called layouts/blog/list.html. Then you can make a page in your custom theme by making a file named content/blog.md…
Lastly, on your main page, you can now link to /blog and that will use the template above.
For more detailed instructions and any follow-up see the Help Forum page.
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⌘ Magic Preview plugin
Sven Dahlstrand says:
My new Micro.blog plug-in is a minimal, no-frills post editor. But it has one pretty magical feature: live previews!
See it in action below, try it on my blog, or look up 🦄 Magic Preview in the plug-in directory. ⚠️ Read the important notice there before installing. Have fun!
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⌘ Plugin: Bear theme
Manton Reece writes:
Still a little experimental, but I added a new plug-in for Micro.blog based on the theme in Bear Blog. Nice lightweight design that looks good and should be pretty easy to customize.
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⌘ Plug-ins can access the URL for your bookmarks
Added new site param .Site.Params.feeds.bookmarks_json for plug-ins to access the URL for your bookmarks. Added book reading goals data files as part of publishing. See this help page for details.