# Obsidian Publish Obsidian Publish is the official solution for publishing Obsidian notes on the Web. It's a paid add-on service, priced per site. Using it, you can easily publish part of your [[Obsidian Vault|vault]], optionally using a custom domain, such as mine: https://notes.dsebastien.net ## How it works - You select which notes to publish from a dedicated pane inside [[Obsidian]]; nothing goes online by default. The `publish` frontmatter property (see [[Obsidian Properties]]) can pre-select notes (in my vault, `public_note` drives that decision upstream). - Published sites keep the Obsidian experience: working [[Obsidian Wikilinks|wikilinks]], hover previews, search, outline, backlinks, and an optional [[Obsidian Graph view|graph view]] per page. - Site options include custom domain, password protection, custom CSS and JS, per-note `permalink`, `description`, and `cover` frontmatter for URLs and SEO. ## Good to know - Publishing is a manual, deliberate act by design. For automated publishing pipelines, see [[Obsidian Headless Publish]]; my own content pipeline pushes selected notes programmatically via the [[Obsidian CLI]]. - The published site serves rendered pages; readers never need Obsidian. - Obsidian Publish covers the "share my notes" use case. For full articles and a newsletter, I publish to Ghost instead; both coexist fine, each serving a different surface. ## References - Official website: https://obsidian.md/publish - Introduction to Obsidian Publish: https://help.obsidian.md/Obsidian+Publish/Introduction+to+Obsidian+Publish - Publish settings and frontmatter: https://help.obsidian.md/Obsidian+Publish/Customize+your+site ## Related - [[Obsidian Headless Publish]] - [[Publish core plugin for Obsidian]] - [[Obsidian CLI]] - [[Obsidian Vault]] - [[Obsidian Properties]] - [[Syncthing]] - [[Obsidian Sync]] - [[Obsidian]]