Neat Bear features

17 Nov, 2023

Listed below are a few neat features of Bear that you probably don't know about.

Dashboard styling

You can now modify the way your dashboard looks in Customise dashboard in your account section of your dashboard.

For example, adding the following CSS:

body {
    max-width: 1024px;
}

button {
    padding: 10px 15px;
    background-color: #eceff4;
    border-radius: 10px;
    border: 0;
}

will make your dashboard look like this: Bear dash

Embedded post lists

You can now add filtered post lists to any content on your blog. This is covered in detail here.

**Last 3 posts**
{{ posts|limit:3 }}

Last 3 posts

17 Nov, 2023 Neat Bear features
07 Nov, 2023 Embedding blog post lists
01 Nov, 2023 Changelog

Mathematical notation

You can now write mathematical notation in LaTeX in any content field. This is covered in more detail here.

**Energy conversion in the Sun** $4 \, \text{H} \rightarrow \text{He} + 2 \, \text{e}^+ + 2 \, \nu_e + \gamma$

Energy conversion in the Sun $4 H \to He + 2 e^{+} + 2 ν_{e} + γ$

Edit robots.txt

You can now edit your robots.txt file in Settings > Advanced settings. For example, you can block ChatGPT from accessing your blog by adding:

User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

Insert blog and post attributes

The following attributes can be inserted in any blog or post content:

{{ blog_title }}
{{ blog_description }} 
{{ blog_link }}
{{ blog_created_date }}
{{ blog_last_modified }} ago
{{ blog_last_posted }} ago

{{ post_title }}
{{ post_description }}
{{ post_link }}
{{ post_published_date }}
{{ post_last_modified }} ago

Eg:

This post **({{ post_title }})** was last edited **{{ post_last_modified }} ago**.

This post (Neat Bear features) was last edited 1 month, 1 week ago.

To make looking up tags that have already been used on the blog easier, in the ► Attributes above the post text area the tags example will be populated with tags that have been previously used on your blog.

Feel free to suggest more features here