diff --git a/pelican/readers.py b/pelican/readers.py
index 868dc965..83565918 100644
--- a/pelican/readers.py
+++ b/pelican/readers.py
@@ -174,5 +174,6 @@ def read_file(filename, fmt=None, settings=None):
     if settings and settings['TYPOGRIFY']:
         from typogrify import Typogrify
         content = Typogrify.typogrify(content)
+        metadata['title'] = Typogrify.typogrify(metadata['title'])
 
     return content, metadata
diff --git a/pelican/themes/notmyidea/templates/article.html b/pelican/themes/notmyidea/templates/article.html
index 6615b63a..fc7e5893 100644
--- a/pelican/themes/notmyidea/templates/article.html
+++ b/pelican/themes/notmyidea/templates/article.html
@@ -1,30 +1,34 @@
 {% extends "base.html" %}
-{% block title %}{{ article.title }}{% endblock %}
-{% block content %}        
-<section id="content" class="body">    
-<article>
-        <header> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="{{ pagename }}"
-        rel="bookmark" title="Permalink to {{ article.title }}">{{ article.title
-        }}</a></h1> {% include 'twitter.html' %} </header>
-        <div class="entry-content">
-        {% include 'article_infos.html' %}
-        {{ article.content }}
-        </div><!-- /.entry-content -->
-        {% if DISQUS_SITENAME %}
-        <div class="comments">
-        <h2>Comments !</h2>
-            <div id="disqus_thread"></div>
-            <script type="text/javascript">
-               var disqus_identifier = "{{ article.url }}";
-               (function() {
-               var dsq = document.createElement('script'); dsq.type = 'text/javascript'; dsq.async = true;
-               dsq.src = 'http://{{ DISQUS_SITENAME }}.disqus.com/embed.js';
-               (document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0] || document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0]).appendChild(dsq);
-              })();
-            </script>
-        </div>
-        {% endif %}
+{% block title %}{{ article.title|striptags }}{% endblock %}
+{% block content %}
+<section id="content" class="body">
+  <article>
+    <header>
+      <h1 class="entry-title">
+        <a href="{{ article.url }}" rel="bookmark"
+           title="Permalink to {{ article.title|striptags }}">{{ article.title}}</a></h1>
+      {% include 'twitter.html' %}
+    </header>
 
-</article>
+    <div class="entry-content">
+      {% include 'article_infos.html' %}
+      {{ article.content }}
+    </div><!-- /.entry-content -->
+    {% if DISQUS_SITENAME %}
+    <div class="comments">
+      <h2>Comments !</h2>
+      <div id="disqus_thread"></div>
+      <script type="text/javascript">
+        var disqus_identifier = "{{ article.url }}";
+        (function() {
+        var dsq = document.createElement('script'); dsq.type = 'text/javascript'; dsq.async = true;
+        dsq.src = 'http://{{ DISQUS_SITENAME }}.disqus.com/embed.js';
+        (document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0] || document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0]).appendChild(dsq);
+        })();
+      </script>
+    </div>
+    {% endif %}
+
+  </article>
 </section>
 {% endblock %}
diff --git a/pelican/themes/simple/templates/article.html b/pelican/themes/simple/templates/article.html
index d6c96a13..16c34266 100644
--- a/pelican/themes/simple/templates/article.html
+++ b/pelican/themes/simple/templates/article.html
@@ -1,19 +1,23 @@
 {% extends "base.html" %}
-{% block content %}        
-<section id="content" class="body">    
-        <header> <h2 class="entry-title"><a href="{{ pagename }}" rel="bookmark" title="Permalink to {{ article.title}}">{{ article.title }}</a></h2> </header>
-        <footer class="post-info">
-                <abbr class="published" title="{{ article.date.isoformat() }}">
-                        {{ article.locale_date }}
-                </abbr>
-                {% if article.author %}
-                <address class="vcard author">
-                        By <a class="url fn" href="{{ SITEURL }}/{{ article.author.url }}">{{ article.author }}</a>
-                </address>
-                {% endif %}
-        </footer><!-- /.post-info -->
-        <div class="entry-content">
-        {{ article.content }}
-        </div><!-- /.entry-content -->
+{% block content %}
+<section id="content" class="body">
+  <header>
+    <h2 class="entry-title">
+      <a href="{{ article.url }}" rel="bookmark"
+         title="Permalink to {{ article.title|striptags }}">{{ article.title }}</a></h2>
+  </header>
+  <footer class="post-info">
+    <abbr class="published" title="{{ article.date.isoformat() }}">
+      {{ article.locale_date }}
+    </abbr>
+    {% if article.author %}
+    <address class="vcard author">
+      By <a class="url fn" href="{{ SITEURL }}/{{ article.author.url }}">{{ article.author }}</a>
+    </address>
+    {% endif %}
+  </footer><!-- /.post-info -->
+  <div class="entry-content">
+    {{ article.content }}
+  </div><!-- /.entry-content -->
 </section>
 {% endblock %}
diff --git a/pelican/utils.py b/pelican/utils.py
index 18730e6c..d4e34842 100644
--- a/pelican/utils.py
+++ b/pelican/utils.py
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import logging
 from codecs import open as _open
 from datetime import datetime
 from itertools import groupby
+from jinja2 import Markup
 from operator import attrgetter
 
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
@@ -44,6 +45,7 @@ def slugify(value):
 
     Took from django sources.
     """
+    value = Markup(value).striptags()
     if type(value) == unicode:
         import unicodedata
         value = unicodedata.normalize('NFKD', value).encode('ascii', 'ignore')