Option to include page title

[tryonkus]

I put an H1 page title in most of my notes, and when I publish them using the Webpage Export plugin, that results in a double title. Would it be possible to add the page title to the Document settings under Page Features, so that the automatic title could be turned off?

Thanks!

kt

[KosmosisDire]

This is better suited as an issue / feature request rather than a discussion. But what version of the plugin are you using?

[tryonkus]

Yeah, I was looking for a feature request topic and didn't see one--I can miss the obvious. 🙄

I am using v1.90, which I see you published just a few hours ago. I noticed the Purge and Clear Cache option had disappeared last night or this morning, and I was guessing you had pushed an update.

As a workaround, I'm trying a CSS snippet to make H1s small and white, but I haven't got the right selector yet.

[tryonkus]

OK, I figured out a workaround:

I include this snippet under Custom HTML

<style>
	/* heading in text */
	h1.heading {
		/* placeholder to remember selector */
	}
	/* auto heading */
	h1.page-title.heading {
		font-size: 1;
		margin: 0;
		line-height: 1px;
		color: white; 
	}
</style>

That essentially hides the automatic heading by making it tiny and white on white. The one problem is that it bungs up the top line of text if I don't include an h1 heading in the text, so I'll need to tweak it. I don't know how to omit a text block entirely using CSS, but there has to be a way . . . I just need to do some more research. The critical part was finding the right selector(s).

[KosmosisDire]

You can do display: none

[tryonkus]

Yep. Just found that with the Google machine. :-)

[KosmosisDire]

Does the header at the top match your file name? Do you have your obsidian settings set to display the file name as a heading? If so this is the problem. And you need to turn off the setting in obsidian

[tryonkus]

I have inline titles turned off in Obsidian, so that shouldn't be the problem. I use a date and time stamp for a unique filename, then assign a title in the YAML. I use the Front Matter Title plugin to display the YAML title in the file navigator and tab bar—I'm guessing that interacts with your plugin in strange ways.

[tryonkus]

Using display: none worked. It still would be interesting to know how Front Matter Title and Webpage Export are interacting—there are multiple plugins out there to replace filenames with YAML aliases or titles, and I've found this one to be pretty reliable. Sometimes it needs some help to refresh the names, and an app restart usually fixes it.

[tryonkus]

I tried turning off Front Matter Title entirely and got the following results:

• The title shows twice on the published page
• The filename doesn't show anywhere but in Obsidian
• When I select notes to publish in WE settings, I see the note titles from YAML, not the filenames.

Sooooooo, it appears FMT isn't the culprit.

I removed the Title and Aliases from the front matter

• The filename shows on top (auto title)
• The H1 heading displays below
• If I restore the title in YAML, then both the auto title and H1 heading display.

I'm guessing what I've described is the intended behavior. I just prefer to add titles in the note text because it gives me more control over the content. I had a similar issue with the micro.publish plugin for micro.blog, and I built a macro in the Commander plugin to remove the H1 heading before publishing, then restore it afterward. That works for publishing one note at a time but not for publishing a whole site.

It might help to give an example—this is a file named 20250728183433.md.

---
id: 20250728183433
title: This is the note title
aliases: This is the note title
date: 2025-07-28
author: Ken Tryon
tags: thought
---
# This is the note title

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.

It's not a big deal, and the CSS hack works. Just thought it could be a useful to be able to tweak the title content and format.

[tryonkus]

One small drawback of the CSS hack—even though the title doesn't display twice in the note text, it does display twice in the TOC.