diff --git a/quartz.config.ts b/quartz.config.ts
index 028f7519f..e302c6ca5 100644
--- a/quartz.config.ts
+++ b/quartz.config.ts
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ const config: QuartzConfig = {
   },
   plugins: {
     transformers: [
-      Plugin.FrontMatter(),
+      // FrontMatter processing now handled by note-properties plugin (via quartz.config.yaml)
       ExternalPlugin.CreatedModifiedDate({
         priority: ["frontmatter", "git", "filesystem"],
       }),
diff --git a/quartz/plugins/transformers/frontmatter.ts b/quartz/plugins/transformers/frontmatter.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index db1cf4213..000000000
--- a/quartz/plugins/transformers/frontmatter.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,157 +0,0 @@
-import matter from "gray-matter"
-import remarkFrontmatter from "remark-frontmatter"
-import { QuartzTransformerPlugin } from "../types"
-import yaml from "js-yaml"
-import toml from "toml"
-import { FilePath, FullSlug, getFileExtension, slugifyFilePath, slugTag } from "../../util/path"
-import { QuartzPluginData } from "../vfile"
-import { i18n } from "../../i18n"
-
-export interface Options {
-  delimiters: string | [string, string]
-  language: "yaml" | "toml"
-}
-
-const defaultOptions: Options = {
-  delimiters: "---",
-  language: "yaml",
-}
-
-function coalesceAliases(data: { [key: string]: any }, aliases: string[]) {
-  for (const alias of aliases) {
-    if (data[alias] !== undefined && data[alias] !== null) return data[alias]
-  }
-}
-
-function coerceToArray(input: string | string[]): string[] | undefined {
-  if (input === undefined || input === null) return undefined
-
-  // coerce to array
-  if (!Array.isArray(input)) {
-    input = input
-      .toString()
-      .split(",")
-      .map((tag: string) => tag.trim())
-  }
-
-  // remove all non-strings
-  return input
-    .filter((tag: unknown) => typeof tag === "string" || typeof tag === "number")
-    .map((tag: string | number) => tag.toString())
-}
-
-function getAliasSlugs(aliases: string[]): FullSlug[] {
-  const res: FullSlug[] = []
-  for (const alias of aliases) {
-    const isMd = getFileExtension(alias) === "md"
-    const mockFp = isMd ? alias : alias + ".md"
-    const slug = slugifyFilePath(mockFp as FilePath)
-    res.push(slug)
-  }
-
-  return res
-}
-
-export const FrontMatter: QuartzTransformerPlugin<Partial<Options>> = (userOpts) => {
-  const opts = { ...defaultOptions, ...userOpts }
-  return {
-    name: "FrontMatter",
-    markdownPlugins(ctx) {
-      const { cfg, allSlugs } = ctx
-      return [
-        [remarkFrontmatter, ["yaml", "toml"]],
-        () => {
-          return (_, file) => {
-            const fileData = Buffer.from(file.value as Uint8Array)
-            const { data } = matter(fileData, {
-              ...opts,
-              engines: {
-                yaml: (s) => yaml.load(s, { schema: yaml.JSON_SCHEMA }) as object,
-                toml: (s) => toml.parse(s) as object,
-              },
-            })
-
-            if (data.title != null && data.title.toString() !== "") {
-              data.title = data.title.toString()
-            } else {
-              data.title = file.stem ?? i18n(cfg.configuration.locale).propertyDefaults.title
-            }
-
-            const tags = coerceToArray(coalesceAliases(data, ["tags", "tag"]))
-            if (tags) data.tags = [...new Set(tags.map((tag: string) => slugTag(tag)))]
-
-            const aliases = coerceToArray(coalesceAliases(data, ["aliases", "alias"]))
-            if (aliases) {
-              data.aliases = aliases // frontmatter
-              file.data.aliases = getAliasSlugs(aliases)
-              allSlugs.push(...file.data.aliases)
-            }
-
-            if (data.permalink != null && data.permalink.toString() !== "") {
-              data.permalink = data.permalink.toString() as FullSlug
-              const aliases = file.data.aliases ?? []
-              aliases.push(data.permalink)
-              file.data.aliases = aliases
-              allSlugs.push(data.permalink)
-            }
-
-            const cssclasses = coerceToArray(coalesceAliases(data, ["cssclasses", "cssclass"]))
-            if (cssclasses) data.cssclasses = cssclasses
-
-            const socialImage = coalesceAliases(data, ["socialImage", "image", "cover"])
-
-            const created = coalesceAliases(data, ["created", "date"])
-            if (created) {
-              data.created = created
-            }
-
-            const modified = coalesceAliases(data, [
-              "modified",
-              "lastmod",
-              "updated",
-              "last-modified",
-            ])
-            if (modified) data.modified = modified
-            data.modified ||= created // if modified is not set, use created
-
-            const published = coalesceAliases(data, ["published", "publishDate", "date"])
-            if (published) data.published = published
-
-            if (socialImage) data.socialImage = socialImage
-
-            // Remove duplicate slugs
-            const uniqueSlugs = [...new Set(allSlugs)]
-            allSlugs.splice(0, allSlugs.length, ...uniqueSlugs)
-
-            // fill in frontmatter
-            file.data.frontmatter = data as QuartzPluginData["frontmatter"]
-          }
-        },
-      ]
-    },
-  }
-}
-
-declare module "vfile" {
-  interface DataMap {
-    aliases: FullSlug[]
-    frontmatter: { [key: string]: unknown } & {
-      title: string
-    } & Partial<{
-        tags: string[]
-        aliases: string[]
-        modified: string
-        created: string
-        published: string
-        description: string
-        socialDescription: string
-        publish: boolean | string
-        draft: boolean | string
-        lang: string
-        enableToc: string
-        cssclasses: string[]
-        socialImage: string
-        comments: boolean | string
-      }>
-  }
-}
diff --git a/quartz/plugins/transformers/index.ts b/quartz/plugins/transformers/index.ts
index 792fad751..336ce12bb 100644
--- a/quartz/plugins/transformers/index.ts
+++ b/quartz/plugins/transformers/index.ts
@@ -1 +1 @@
-export { FrontMatter } from "./frontmatter"
+export {}