description: In this guide, you'll enable Obsidian Publish for your vault, create a site, and publish your notes to it.
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Set up Obsidian Publish
In this guide, you'll enable Obsidian Publish for your vault, create a site, and publish your notes to it.
Prerequisites
An Obsidian account. If you don't have one, sign up now.
An active Obsidian Publish subscription. If you don't have one, subscribe from your account dashboard.
Log in with your Obsidian account
Open Settings.
In the sidebar, select General.
Under Account → Your account, select Log in.
In Email, enter your email.
In Password, enter your password.
Click Login.
Enable Obsidian Publish
Open Settings.
In the sidebar, select Core plugins.
Enable Publish.
Open Publish
You can access Publish through the following options: the command palette, a hotkey, or the ribbon.
Open via Command palette
This option requires the Command palette core plugin to be enabled.
Desktop/Tablet
Open the Command palette ( ).
Type "Publish".
Select the Publish: Publish changes... option.
The Publish changes window will appear in a new pop-up.
In Site ID, enter the path you want for your site. For example, a site with the ID my-amazing-site is available from publish.obsidian.md/my-amazing-site.
You've configured an Obsidian Publish site and published your first notes. Head over to the site address you configured earlier in this guide, and start sharing it with your readers.
Next steps
Now that you've published your first notes, you might want to: