quartz-website/docs/plugins/index.md

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Plugins

Quartz's functionality is provided by a collection of first-party community plugins. Each plugin can be enabled, disabled, and configured via quartz.config.yaml. See configuration#Plugins for details on how to manage plugins.

[!info] Internal vs Community Plugins Quartz has two kinds of plugins:

• Community plugins are standalone repositories under quartz-community. In TS overrides, they use ExternalPlugin.X() (imported from .quartz/plugins).
• Internal plugins are built into Quartz core (Assets, Static, ComponentResources, NotFoundPage). In TS overrides, they use Plugin.X() (imported from ./quartz/plugins).

Plugin types

Quartz plugins fall into several categories:

• Transformers process content during the build, e.g. parsing frontmatter, highlighting syntax, or resolving links.
• Filters decide which content files to include or exclude from the output.
• Page Types generate HTML pages — one per content file, folder, tag, canvas, or bases view.
• Components render UI elements in the page layout (sidebars, headers, footers, etc.).

First-party plugins

Transformers

Plugin	Repository	Enabled	Required	Description
Frontmatter	quartz-community/note-properties	✅	✅	Parses frontmatter and displays note properties.
CreatedModifiedDate	quartz-community/created-modified-date	✅	❌	Determines creation and modification dates.
SyntaxHighlighting	quartz-community/syntax-highlighting	✅	❌	Syntax highlighting for code blocks.
ObsidianFlavoredMarkdown	quartz-community/obsidian-flavored-markdown	✅	❌	Obsidian-specific Markdown extensions.
GitHubFlavoredMarkdown	quartz-community/github-flavored-markdown	✅	❌	GitHub Flavored Markdown support.
TableOfContents	quartz-community/table-of-contents	✅	❌	Generates table of contents data from headings.¹
CrawlLinks	quartz-community/crawl-links	✅	⚠️	Parses and resolves links. Removing it is not recommended.
Description	quartz-community/description	✅	❌	Generates page descriptions for metadata.
UnlistedPages	quartz-community/unlisted-pages	✅	❌	Bridges frontmatter.unlisted to file.data.unlisted so any page can opt out of discovery.
Latex	quartz-community/latex	✅	❌	Renders LaTeX math expressions.
EncryptedPages	quartz-community/encrypted-pages	✅	❌	Password-protected encrypted pages with shadow content index.²
Citations	quartz-community/citations	❌	❌	Academic citation support via BibTeX.
HardLineBreaks	quartz-community/hard-line-breaks	❌	❌	Treats single newlines as hard line breaks.
OxHugoFlavoredMarkdown	quartz-community/ox-hugo	❌	❌	ox-hugo Markdown compatibility.
RoamFlavoredMarkdown	quartz-community/roam	❌	❌	Roam Research Markdown compatibility.

Filters

Plugin	Repository	Enabled	Required	Description
RemoveDrafts	quartz-community/remove-draft	✅	❌	Filters out pages marked as drafts.
ExplicitPublish	quartz-community/explicit-publish	❌	❌	Only publishes pages explicitly marked.

Page Types

Plugin	Repository	Enabled	Required	Description
ContentPage	quartz-community/content-page	✅	❌	Generates HTML pages for Markdown content.
FolderPage	quartz-community/folder-page	✅	❌	Generates folder listing pages.
TagPage	quartz-community/tag-page	✅	❌	Generates tag listing pages.
CanvasPage	quartz-community/canvas-page	✅	❌	Renders JSON Canvas files as interactive pages.
BasesPage	quartz-community/bases-page	✅	❌	Renders Obsidian Bases files as database views.

Emitters

Plugin	Repository	Enabled	Required	Description
AliasRedirects	quartz-community/alias-redirects	✅	❌	Generates redirect pages for aliases.
ContentIndex	quartz-community/content-index	✅	❌	Generates sitemap, RSS feed, and content index.
Favicon	quartz-community/favicon	✅	❌	Emits the site favicon.
CustomOgImages	quartz-community/og-image	✅	❌	Generates Open Graph social preview images.
CNAME	quartz-community/cname	✅	❌	Emits a CNAME file for custom domains.
EncryptedPages²	quartz-community/encrypted-pages	✅	❌	Emits the shadow content index for unlisted encrypted pages.

Components

Plugin	Repository	Enabled	Required	Description
ArticleTitle	quartz-community/article-title	✅	❌	Renders the article title as an h1 heading.
ContentMeta	quartz-community/content-meta	✅	❌	Displays creation date and reading time.
TagList	quartz-community/tag-list	❌	❌	Renders tags as clickable links.
PageTitle	quartz-community/page-title	✅	❌	Renders the site title as a home link.
darkmode	quartz-community/darkmode	✅	❌	Toggle between light and dark themes.
reader mode	quartz-community/reader-mode	✅	❌	Distraction-free reading mode toggle.
explorer	quartz-community/explorer	✅	❌	File tree explorer sidebar.
graph view	quartz-community/graph	✅	❌	Interactive link graph visualization.
full-text search	quartz-community/search	✅	❌	Full-text search functionality.
backlinks	quartz-community/backlinks	✅	❌	Shows pages that link to the current page.
breadcrumbs	quartz-community/breadcrumbs	✅	❌	Breadcrumb navigation trail.
comments	quartz-community/comments	❌	❌	Comment system integration (Giscus, etc.).
Footer	quartz-community/footer	✅	❌	Page footer with configurable links.
recent notes	quartz-community/recent-notes	❌	❌	Displays a list of recently modified notes.
Spacer	quartz-community/spacer	✅	❌	Flexible spacer for layout groups.
TableOfContents¹	quartz-community/table-of-contents	✅	❌	Renders the table of contents in the layout.
EncryptedPages²	quartz-community/encrypted-pages	✅	❌	Renders the password prompt for encrypted pages.
StackedPages	quartz-community/stacked-pages	✅	❌	Andy Matuschak-style stacked sliding panes.

¹ TableOfContents is a dual-category plugin (transformer + component). It appears in both the Transformers and Components tables.

² EncryptedPages is a tri-category plugin (transformer + emitter + component). The transformer encrypts page content at build time, the emitter writes the shadow content index for unlisted encrypted pages, and the component renders the password prompt UI. It appears in the Transformers, Emitters, and Components tables.