Override the default accent color of any theme with a named color from its own palette, keeping visual harmony while personalizing your site.

Kiln automatically detects and displays backlinks in the right sidebar, showing every page in your vault that links to the current page.

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.

Kiln includes a selection of high-quality, self-hosted Google Fonts that are baked directly into your site for maximum performance and privacy.

Visualize the connections between your notes with Kiln's interactive Global Graph, a force-directed network view of your entire vault.

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.

Kiln features a built-in theme toggle that supports Light and Dark modes, respects system preferences, and persists your choice across sessions.

Kiln generates a context-aware Local Graph for every page, visualizing the immediate connections, backlinks, and related topics in the sidebar.

Kiln automatically generates a dynamic Table of Contents (TOC) for every page, allowing users to navigate long documents and jump to headers instantly.

Customize the look of your site with Kiln's built-in color palettes, including popular themes like Catppuccin, Nord, and Dracula.

Kiln automatically generates an RSS 2.0 feed so readers can subscribe to your site with any feed reader. Learn how to enable and customize it.

Kiln translates all built-in UI strings — buttons, labels, tooltips — into the language you choose, with English as the default.

Kiln automatically optimizes images at build time, generating responsive variants in modern formats like AVIF and WebP for faster page loads.

How Kiln's dev command detects file changes and determines which pages to rebuild using a four-stage pipeline of watcher, mtime store, dependency graph, and changeset computation.

Kiln shows a live preview tooltip when you hover over internal links on desktop, letting readers peek at linked content without navigating away.

Known quirks when converting an Obsidian vault with Kiln: how duplicate filenames resolve, folder page overrides, and flat vs pretty URL behavior.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Learn how Kiln uses HTMX hx-boost to provide instant, single-page application (SPA) navigation while maintaining perfect SEO and progressive enhancement.

Kiln generates a hierarchical file explorer in the sidebar that mirrors your vault's folder structure with collapsible directories, active page highlighting, and live search filtering.

Kiln mirrors your Obsidian vault folder structure as clean URLs, auto-generates index pages, and adds folders to your knowledge graph.

Use Kiln's real-time Quick Find search to instantly filter notes and folders in the sidebar by name. Client-side, zero latency, with smart folder expansion.

Use Obsidian tags in Kiln to auto-generate topic pages, create cross-folder collections, and visualize note connections in the graph.

Use Obsidian-style wikilinks to connect notes, embed pages and sections, link to headers and block IDs, and resize images in your Kiln site.

Render Obsidian Bases as interactive HTML tables, cards, and lists with filtering, sorting, and grouping on your static site.

Use Obsidian-style callouts in Kiln to add info boxes, warnings, tips, and collapsible sections to your static site pages.

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.

Render LaTeX equations in your Obsidian vault with Kiln. Supports inline and block math using MathJax 4 with lazy loading.

Kiln natively renders Mermaid diagrams from your Markdown. Create flowcharts, sequence diagrams, and Gantt charts that automatically adapt to your site's theme.

Kiln natively renders Obsidian .canvas files as interactive diagrams, allowing you to visualize complex relationships directly on your static site.

Kiln is built to support Obsidian Flavored Markdown, a rich superset of standard Markdown that includes wikilinks, callouts, and math support.

Kiln includes built-in server-side syntax highlighting for hundreds of programming languages, fully customizable via CSS classes.

Add canonical tags to your Kiln site to prevent duplicate content penalties. Learn how the --url flag generates rel=canonical links automatically.

Learn how to optimize your site's SEO by customizing page titles and meta descriptions using standard Markdown frontmatter.

Learn how Kiln automatically generates a robots.txt file to guide search engine crawlers and why the base URL configuration is required.

Kiln automatically builds an XML sitemap to help search engines discover and index your content efficiently. Learn how to enable and configure it.

Learn how Kiln automatically generates JSON-LD structured data to help search engines understand your articles and breadcrumb trails.