Obsidian Custom Publish

This is an Obsidian plugin that exposes command palette actions to set frontmatter properties for custom publishing workflows. It doesn't tie itself to a specific hosting provider (Obsidian Publish or otherwise); it assumes you already have a system that scans notes and publishes based on frontmatter properties.

Commands

Command	Action
Custom Publish: Publish page	Sets the publish property to true
Custom Publish: Unpublish page	Sets the publish property to false
Custom Publish: Toggle publish page	Flips the publish property
Custom Publish: Toggle visibility	Flips the visibility property
Custom Publish: Copy published page URL	Copies the published URL to the clipboard using the configured URL template

If the target property doesn't exist on the note, it will be added automatically.

Settings

Setting	Default	Description
Publish property	publish	Frontmatter key used to mark a page as published
Visibility property	private	Frontmatter key used to control page visibility
Publish URL template	(empty)	URL template for published pages. Use ${PAGE} as a placeholder for the page name
Slug style	title-kebab	How the page name is converted for the ${PAGE} placeholder

Publish URL template

The ${PAGE} placeholder is replaced with the current note's filename, converted using the selected slug style. Special characters are stripped and words are split on spaces, underscores, and hyphens.

Slug styles:

Style	Example input	${PAGE} output
kebab-case	My First Post	my-first-post
Title-Kebab-Case	My First Post	My-First-Post
TitleCase	My First Post	MyFirstPost
camelCase	My First Post	myFirstPost

Configuration examples (using kebab-case):

Publish URL template	Result for "My First Post"
https://blog.example.com/${PAGE}	https://blog.example.com/my-first-post
https://example.com/posts/${PAGE}.html	https://example.com/posts/my-first-post.html
https://wiki.example.com/pages/${PAGE}/	https://wiki.example.com/pages/my-first-post/

Note: The "Copy published page URL" command is only available when a Publish URL template is configured.

Development

npm install
npm run dev    # watch mode
npm run build  # production build

Installation

Copy main.js, styles.css, and manifest.json to your vault at .obsidian/plugins/obsidian-custom-publish/.