I have bunch of markdown files that I’ve been trying to import. Nothing ever makes it to my post list, even though I get no errors or anything.
Do I have to format the frontmatter in a specific way? I tried any way I could think of. Supposedly, micro.blog accepts front matter info for title, category and tags (among others), but not the way I tried it.
Any ideas?
Hm, I see a whole lot of “Import: Invalid date”
I successfully imported blog posts the other day with dates formatted like this: 2022-10-09 13:34.
Does that mean dates inside the text? Or do the posts have to be named by date?
It’s about the date variable in the YAML front matter. Here’s a complete, but short, blog post that I imported successfully just now.
lorem.md
---
title: Hello World!
date: 2022-10-09 13:34
---
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Donec ac tempor ipsum. Proin finibus urna ac congue iaculis. Maecenas id eros blandit, cursus neque in, imperdiet diam.
I don’t have dates in my front matter, so that’s a must, I take it? Is there really no manual for this? I just need a simple list of requirements for imported markdown files.
The Micro.blog documentation is available here on the forum, the link Help Contents at the top. There’s a separate page where the Markdown import is (sparsely) documented.
It dosen’t explicitly mention that date is required but, based on my experiments, I think it is.
Yes, dates are required by the static site generator (Hugo) that Micro.blog uses.
I’ll be damned, that did it. Thank you very much, I wouldn’t have gotten that in a million years.