diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 66cbc3e8..765999b5 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 -   Enhance `create_article()` function to create articles from alternate formats.
 -   Fix issue w/ broken images in search results for pages with no preview image.
 -   Fix issue w/ attempting to add non-site Rmds (e.g. README.Rmd) to search index.
+-   Fix issue w/ duplicate `includes` within website articles
 -   Suppress citation for individual articles/posts via `citation: false` metadata.
 
 ## distill v1.1 (CRAN)
diff --git a/R/distill_article.R b/R/distill_article.R
index a8d20a8d..60146682 100644
--- a/R/distill_article.R
+++ b/R/distill_article.R
@@ -114,6 +114,10 @@ distill_article <- function(toc = FALSE,
   site_config <- NULL
   encoding <- NULL
 
+  # metadata_includes are includes derived from this file's metadata
+  # (as opposed to site level includes which we already process)
+  metadata_includes <- list()
+
   # post-knit
   post_knit <- function(metadata, input_file, runtime, encoding, ...) {
 
@@ -123,6 +127,9 @@ distill_article <- function(toc = FALSE,
     # run R code in metadata
     metadata <- eval_metadata(metadata)
 
+    # determine metadata_includes
+    metadata_includes <<- metadata[["output"]][["distill::distill_article"]][["includes"]]
+
     # pandoc args
     args <- c()
 
@@ -239,11 +246,11 @@ distill_article <- function(toc = FALSE,
     before_body <- c(front_matter_before_body(metadata),
                      navigation_before_body_file(dirname(input_file), site_config),
                      site_before_body_file(site_config),
-                     includes$before_body,
+                     metadata_includes$before_body,
                      listing$html)
 
     # after body includes: user then distill
-    after_body <- c(includes$after_body,
+    after_body <- c(metadata_includes$after_body,
                     site_after_body_file(site_config),
                     appendices_after_body_file(input_file, site_config, metadata),
                     navigation_after_body_file(dirname(input_file), site_config))
@@ -263,7 +270,7 @@ distill_article <- function(toc = FALSE,
   pre_processor <- function(yaml_front_matter, utf8_input, runtime, knit_meta,
                             files_dir, output_dir, ...) {
     pandoc_include_args(in_header = c(site_in_header_file(site_config),
-                                      includes$in_header))
+                                      metadata_includes$in_header))
   }
 
   on_exit <- function() {