Hi. How can I save the content on my write.as site? Thanks for any help!

Hey @GinaAnn , the best way to do that is from your Export page . You can reach it via that link or by going to Write.as, hovering over your username, and clicking the Export item.

Ah, thank you, Matt. Appreciate it.

Matt, it seems like the “User + Blogs + Posts” option saves via the internet. Would I then save that to a file on my computer? And is either json or prettified more preferable for Mac, or for any other reason? Thank you.

Please note that hovering is nigh impossible when using a mouse-less device, such as a mobile phone.

[image] writedirt: Matt, it seems like the “User + Blogs + Posts” option saves via the internet. Would I then save that to a file on my computer? Yes, you would then save that file to your computer if you want to use it. [image] writedirt: And is either json or prettified more preferable…

Are you able to open that navigation menu by tapping on it on your mobile device?

It’s possible, but hard to discover, and clicking generally does the onClick() behavior. I don’t recall what that does for that particular item. I can generally figure out a way to do everything, it’s just that every single hover behavior adds friction for mobile devices, and there are not going to…

Thanks, Matt. I’m not on mobile, so I can’t offer any extra feedback. Just one other question. Do any of the formats save photos and/or text formatting? That might be a dumb question. I mostly only care about text, but just wondering. Thank you.

Also, thanks for letting me know I would save from the internet to the computer.

Great questions! You will always get the formatting exported, yes – in the form of Markdown if you’re using that. Otherwise if you’ve used HTML to format your posts, that will be exported. We don’t export photos right now though, unfortunately. But we should absolutely do that! I’ll put that on our…

How do I back up my site?

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kxra September 18, 2023, 11:35pm 13

Idea for fully featured import/export (to include images and such too):