Shared Notes: New Summary Option in Micro.blog Posts
Micro.blog now has the option to add a summary to individual posts. These are useful in the Micro.blog timeline, but I don’t want them appearing on the blog itself. To that end, this is the code that needs to be removed from layouts/index.html
:
{{ else if .Params.custom_summary }}
<div class="p-summary">
<p>{{ .Summary | safeHTML }}</p>
</div>
Apparently these summaries are now included in Micro.blog’s implementation of the Bluesky and Mastodon APIs. They show up in cross-posts to those platforms. They are also likely to show up in some thumbnail views of links on social media.
Update, Aug. 12, 2025: For posts without a title, these summaries can take the place of the main content in the post list on the archive page.
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