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Mar 22, 2026

Support for About Me and custom nav links

@elettrona@poliversity.it @fabio@manganiello.eu I've had a bit of time today to put together a new #madblog version 🙂

About Me

Now you can just drop an ABOUT.md in your pages directory. If you provide the right metadata in the #markdown header you also get a nicely rendered semantic h-card as a bonus.

An example from the header of my site's about page (trim the initial spaces, otherwise Madblog interprets these as true headers and messes up this post):

 [//]: # (title: My Name)
 [//]: # (name: My Name)
 [//]: # (given-name: My)
 [//]: # (family-name: Name)
 [//]: # (url: https://example.com)
 [//]: # (photo: https://example.com/photo.jpg)
 [//]: # (email: me@example.com)
 [//]: # (job-title: Cat herder)
 [//]: # (org: My Company|https://example.com, My Side Project|https://another-example.com)
 [//]: # (note: Some brief description)
 [//]: # (key: https://pgp.example.com/key.txt|FINGERPRINT)
 [//]: # (links: @me@example.social|https://example.social/@me, Github|https://github.com/me, LinkedIn|https://www.linkedin.com/in/me/, XMPP|xmpp://me@example.com, Matrix|https://matrix.to/#/@me:example.com)

External Links

You can add them now to your config.yaml.

# Mastodon-double linking purposes, but
# they are not rendered on the HTML
rel_me:
  - https://example.social/@me
  - https://goto.social/@name

# External links are automatically rendered
# on the about page
external_links:
  - url: https://example.social/@me
    display_name: Mastodon

# nav_links are automatically rendered
# on the navigation panel
nav_links:
  - url: https://example.social/@me
    display_name: Mastodon
    icon: https://example.social/favicon.ico

Also remember to specify enable_activitypub: true (and also link, or federation may break) if you want to make the blog handle discoverable on Mastodon:

# link is required for Webmentions and ActivityPub
link: https://madblog.plusbrothers.net/

enable_activitypub: true

# Only set these two if you want to use a different
# domain (e.g. plusbrothers.net) for your federated
# handles (e.g. @elena@plusbrothers.net). Otherwise
# it'll be @elena@madblog.plusbrothers.net
activitypub_link: https://plusbrothers.net
activitypub_domain: plusbrothers.net

# The username to expose to ActivityPub - in this configuration's case
# your user will be @elena@plusbrothers.net
activitypub_username: elena

# Additional profile fields that you want to add to your ActivityPub profile
# when visited on Mastodon (supports verification)
activitypub_profile_fields:
  "Powered by Madblog": https://git.fabiomanganiello.com/madblog
  "Main Profile": '<a href="https://mastodon.social/@me" rel="me">@me@mastodon.social</a>'

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