# Obsidian Publish --- Publish is an Obsidian plugin that turns publishes your notes for $8-$10 per month. It works seamlessly with your Vault, keeps all of your Markdown formatting, and allows you to control which pages are made public. As of [[2024-03-29]], my notes are published with Obsidian Publish. It really is frictionless. I'm currently using a [[publish.css code 2024-03-29|theme]] I managed to pull together [[{24.10.3} yin and yang color palette|inspired by]] the now-defunct [Yin & Yang Theme](https://github.com/chetachiezikeuzor/Yin-and-Yang-Theme), so theme-building / customization is fairly beginner-friendly. The major downside to publish, for my needs, is that you're limited in the functionality you can add. YAML cannot be displayed, I don't think you can add things like [[building blocks of the indieweb|webmentions]], plugin features aren't utilized the way they are in some custom solutions. Definitely the easiest way to get started publishing your notes. See more in: - [[adding comments to obsidian publish]] # Obsidian Plugins --- ## Obsidian Digital Garden Plugin [repo](https://github.com/oleeskild/obsidian-digital-garden) | [documentation](https://dg-docs.ole.dev/) Open source, supports Dataview queries, graphs, links, frontmatter, etc. And publication control can happen in YAML. I had trouble customizing this to my preference. ## Markdown Blogger [repo](https://github.com/afazio1/obsidian-markdown-blogger) IDK if my terminology is right here -- I think you still have to set up something like a static site generator, then specify a folder in that to push note to... Then with Markdown Blogger, you can set a command in Obsidian to push notes *into* that folder -- or update them, etc. Amazing that I can't remember how it works, because I did use this for a while (with 11ty, I think? this is why I take notes, lol). *But* I do remember really loving it, just didn't fit with my workflow / amount of notes because I had to remember to update each one individually. ## Blot.im [Blot.im]([Blot – A blogging platform with no interface.](https://blot.im/)) is a blogging platform that turns any folder on Google Drive, Dropbox, and GIT into a website so you can blog directly from your preferred text editor. It costs $4 a month and supports basic publishing needs, including using custom domains, using wikilinks, and it comes with several pre-built template options. I tried Blot briefly and set-up was simple. I decided Blot wasn’t right for me primarily because I didn’t have the control I needed over *what* was being published. You can use `__` before a file or folder’s title to prevent it from becoming a post and you can create a `Drafts` folder that’s kept private, but, otherwise, all files in your Blot folder are public. I prefer using something like frontmatter to prevent publication of personal files, so this doesn’t work for me, *but* is a great option if you have a vault you want to be completely public. ~~[[2024-03-29]] -- I've since reorganized my vault and use a "private" folder for Publish to ignore. This might be worth revisiting. # Static Site Generators --- ## 11ty This seems to be the fan-favorite. I published an iteration of my vault on [11ty](https://www.11ty.dev/) and found it, uh... I mean, the documentation and tutorials are fantastic (I've watched [this one](https://11ty.rocks/posts/create-your-first-basic-11ty-website/) probably fifteen times), and found the whole process pretty rewarding as a newbie to coding, but *wow* was it cumbersome for what I wanted.