# My Obsidian Publish infinite loop. The saga of creating new problems by solving others. 2025-07-12 #### It’s incredible how solutions can have a side effect, creating new obstacles. And I secretly love dealing with that challenge. ![[vladcampos.com/_files/2025-07-12-my-obsidian-publish-infinite-loop.png]] Like usual, I'm sharing something I just learned. But let's begin with the issue. If you use #Obsidian-Publish to post your notes, the address of the page will be something resembling the path to the note in your vault, which creates two headaches. 1. If you move that note to another folder in your vault, the page address will change if you update it. And the last thing you want is your site pages changing addresses. 2. I'm not an #SEO specialist, and there is conflicting information about this online, but some say the address format is an important signal. I have no idea whether it’s critical or not, but the address created by Obsidian Publish looks horrible. The solution to both is adding your own address as a permalink, which Obsidian Publish allows you to do with a property: `permalink: /any-address-you-want` ![[vladcampos.com/Static/Toolbox/Online Presence/What is a permalink|What is a permalink]] Long story short, all my notes have a permalink, but of course, that created a new problem. Do you know when we publish a link on social media and it creates a miniature with a thumbnail and some details about that post?  Obsidian Publish has some properties that you can use to tell the social media site where to look for that information: `cover:` or `image:` for the thumbnail and `description:` for the description. You can learn all about this on the [Obsidian Help site](https://help.obsidian.md/publish). That set me on a quest that led me to this Obsidian Forum post: "[Pages with permalink take longer to have a social preview.](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/pages-with-permalink-take-longer-to-have-a-social-preview/82132/17)" There's a long conversation there, but here's the TL;DR: - Wait for four hours before sharing the permalink on social media. - Use the original link instead. That link will always exist, even if you create a permalink. Also, it doesn't take four hours to show the image. ![[vladcampos.com/Static/Toolbox/Obsidian/Obsidian posts|Obsidian posts]] #### How to Find the Original Link Open the #Obsidian command palette, and type `Publish: open in live site`. That will first open the page using the original address and then switch to the permalink. ![[vladcampos.com/_files/2025-07-12-publish-open-in-live-site.png]] It's too fast to see, but if you go to your browser history, you'll notice that page appearing twice in the list. The older one has the original address. Right-click on it and copy the link. ![[vladcampos.com/_files/2025-07-12-two-pages.png]] Yes, I know what you are thinking... I agree. It's incredible how there's always a side effect creating new problems. But don't worry, you'll be the first one to know when I find out how using the original address creates new complications. ![[vladcampos.com/Timeline/Blog/Posts|Posts]]