diff --git a/lib/jekyll/document.rb b/lib/jekyll/document.rb
index ec9ee742..048dcdbf 100644
--- a/lib/jekyll/document.rb
+++ b/lib/jekyll/document.rb
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ module Jekyll
         path:       cleaned_relative_path,
         output_ext: Jekyll::Renderer.new(site, self).output_ext,
         name:       Utils.slugify(basename_without_ext),
-        title:      Utils.slugify(data['title']) || Utils.slugify(basename_without_ext)
+        title:      Utils.slugify(data['slug']) || Utils.slugify(basename_without_ext)
       }
     end
 
diff --git a/site/_docs/permalinks.md b/site/_docs/permalinks.md
index 703a2289..bf7e9481 100644
--- a/site/_docs/permalinks.md
+++ b/site/_docs/permalinks.md
@@ -78,7 +78,10 @@ permalink is defined as `/:categories/:year/:month/:day/:title.html`.
         <p><code>title</code></p>
       </td>
       <td>
-        <p>Title from the Post’s filename</p>
+        <p>
+            Title from the document’s filename. May be overridden via the
+            document’s <code>slug</code> YAML front matter.
+        </p>
       </td>
     </tr>
     <tr>
diff --git a/test/source/_slides/example-slide-4.html b/test/source/_slides/example-slide-4.html
index 6cec4eae..b4bdbe45 100644
--- a/test/source/_slides/example-slide-4.html
+++ b/test/source/_slides/example-slide-4.html
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 ---
-  title: So what is Jekyll, exactly?
+  slug: so-what-is-jekyll-exactly
   layout: slide
 ---
 
diff --git a/test/source/_slides/example-slide-6.html b/test/source/_slides/example-slide-6.html
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..defbb52d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/source/_slides/example-slide-6.html
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+---
+  slug: Well, so what is Jekyll, then?
+  layout: slide
+---
+
+Jekyll is a simple, blog-aware, static site generator. It takes a template
+directory containing raw text files in various formats, runs it through
+[Markdown](http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/) (or
+[Textile](http://redcloth.org/textile)) and
+[Liquid](http://wiki.shopify.com/Liquid)
+converters, and spits out a complete, ready-to-publish static website suitable
+for serving with your favorite web server. Jekyll also happens to be the engine
+behind [GitHub Pages](http://pages.github.com), which means you can use Jekyll
+to host your project’s page, blog, or website from GitHub’s servers **for
+free**.
diff --git a/test/test_document.rb b/test/test_document.rb
index f8243aa1..aa4e2fa9 100644
--- a/test/test_document.rb
+++ b/test/test_document.rb
@@ -249,15 +249,20 @@ class TestDocument < Test::Unit::TestCase
       }))
       @site.process
       @document = @site.collections["slides"].docs[3]
-      @document_without_title = @site.collections["slides"].docs[4]
+      @document_without_slug = @site.collections["slides"].docs[4]
+      @document_with_strange_slug = @site.collections["slides"].docs[5]
     end
 
-    should "produce the right URL if they have a title" do
+    should "produce the right URL if they have a slug" do
       assert_equal "/slides/so-what-is-jekyll-exactly", @document.url
     end
 
-    should "produce the right URL if they don't have a title" do
-      assert_equal "/slides/example-slide-5", @document_without_title.url
+    should "produce the right URL if they don't have a slug" do
+      assert_equal "/slides/example-slide-5", @document_without_slug.url
+    end
+
+    should "produce the right URL if they have a wild slug" do
+      assert_equal "/slides/well-so-what-is-jekyll-then", @document_with_strange_slug.url
     end
   end