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Ali Spittel

What's up!

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Munish Garg

Ali, I also want to publish my content piece here, but i got stuck at a point, that whenever I hit save post button after lay-outing my post, it shows 2 errors always i.e.
(): could not find expected ':' while scanning a simple key at line 5 column 1
Title can't be blank

I have tried a lot and clear all the issue from my end but as it is still shows error there. Please suggest advice.

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Ali Spittel • Edited

Oh -- this sounds like an issue with the frontmatter on your post -- that's the part with metadata for dev.to. For example, mine for this post looks like:

---
title: 25 Tips for New Developers: Advice from a (Mostly) Self-Taught Software Engineer
published: true
description: The most common question I get from blog readers is "What is your advice for new programmers?" So, I thought it was time to write up my thoughts.
tags: beginners, career, learning, tips
canonical_url: https://zen-of-programming.com/start-programming
cover_image: https://thepracticaldev.s3.amazonaws.com/i/iv7xgbbdz48i016zrgvb.png
---

If there's a colon in your title you will need to put that title in quotes!

@ben and @jess may have even better advice too!