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Features/Rendering (8)
Bases
Explore Kiln's experimental Bases feature. Transform your Obsidian data views into interactive HTML tables, cards, and lists with filtering, sorting, and grouping capabilities.
Callouts
Learn how to use Obsidian-style callouts to highlight important information, create warnings, and organize content with collapsible blocks.
Hidden files folders
Learn how to hide certain files and folders in Kiln. This allows you to hide for example folders that are only important in the vault, like the template folder.
Math
Kiln supports mathematical notation using MathJax, allowing you to write complex equations with standard LaTeX syntax while maintaining optimal page performance.
Mermaid Graphs
Kiln natively renders Mermaid diagrams from your Markdown. Create flowcharts, sequence diagrams, and Gantt charts that automatically adapt to your site's theme.
Obsidian Canvas
Kiln natively renders Obsidian .canvas files as interactive diagrams, allowing you to visualize complex relationships directly on your static site.
Obsidian Markdown
Kiln is built to support Obsidian Flavored Markdown, a rich superset of standard Markdown that includes wikilinks, callouts, and math support.
Syntax Highlighting
Kiln includes built-in server-side syntax highlighting for hundreds of programming languages, fully customizable via CSS classes.
Features/SEO (4)
Canonical
Learn how to optimize your site's SEO by adding canonical tags to your website pages.
Meta Tags
Learn how to optimize your site's SEO by customizing page titles and meta descriptions using standard Markdown frontmatter.
Robots txt
Learn how Kiln automatically generates a robots.txt file to guide search engine crawlers and why the base URL configuration is required.
Sitemap xml
Kiln automatically builds an XML sitemap to help search engines discover and index your content efficiently. Learn how to enable and configure it.
Features/User Interface (8)
Comments
Want to add comments for your website? Not a problem: you could use Kiln supports Giscus and it's perfect to add UGC into your vault.
Fonts
Kiln includes a selection of high-quality, self-hosted Google Fonts that are baked directly into your site for maximum performance and privacy.
Global Graph
Visualize the connections between your notes with Kiln's interactive Global Graph, a force-directed network view of your entire vault.
Layouts
Customize the interface of your generated site. Choose between the standard Obsidian-like 'Default' layout or the focused 'Simple' layout using the --layout CLI flag.
Light-Dark Mode
Kiln features a built-in theme toggle that supports Light and Dark modes, respects system preferences, and persists your choice across sessions.
Local Graph
Kiln generates a context-aware Local Graph for every page, visualizing the immediate connections, backlinks, and related topics in the sidebar.
Table of Contents
Kiln automatically generates a dynamic Table of Contents (TOC) for every page, allowing users to navigate long documents and jump to headers instantly.
Themes
Customize the look of your site with Kiln's built-in color palettes, including popular themes like Catppuccin, Nord, and Dracula.
Features/Custom Mode (6)
Collection Configuration
Master the config.json file. Learn how to define strict data schemas for your content collections, from simple string fields to complex relationships, enums, and custom data types.
Environment Variables
Learn how to manage global site data with env.json. Define site-wide constants like API keys, social links, and titles that are accessible across all your templates and components.
Quick Start Guide
Get up and running with Kiln Custom Mode in minutes. A step-by-step tutorial on building a fully functional, type-safe blog using Obsidian as your CMS, from project setup to deployment.
Styles
Explore styling options in Kiln. From raw CSS to a complete guide on setting up Tailwind CSS, learn how to implement your own design engine with Kiln's unopinionated "Bring Your Own Engine" philosophy.
Templating System
Deep dive into Kiln's pipe-driven templating engine. Learn how to build custom HTML layouts, create reusable components, and use powerful functions like where, sort, and limit to control your content.
What is Custom Mode
Discover Kiln's Custom Mode: transform Obsidian into a powerful headless CMS. Learn how to move beyond simple vault mirroring to build structured, data-driven static websites with custom schemas and layouts.
Features/Navigation (6)
Client Side Navigation
Learn how Kiln uses HTMX hx-boost to provide instant, single-page application (SPA) navigation while maintaining perfect SEO and progressive enhancement.
Explorer
Kiln automatically generates a hierarchical file explorer in the sidebar, mirroring your local folder structure for intuitive content navigation.
Folders
Learn how Kiln mirrors your Obsidian folder structure. Folders automatically generate index pages, listing contents and sub-contents, and act as structural nodes in your knowledge graph.
Search
Kiln features a real-time client-side search that instantly filters your sidebar, allowing you to quickly locate notes and folders by name.
Tags
Discover how Kiln handles Obsidian tags. Tags generate dynamic aggregation pages that collect related notes across your entire vault and visualize connections in your site's graph.
Wikilinks
Learn how to use standard Wikilink syntax to connect notes, create aliases, link to specific headers, and embed images directly into your content.
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Quirks
A series of different quirks to keep in mind when using Kiln.