diff --git a/IkiWiki/Plugin/pagestats.pm b/IkiWiki/Plugin/pagestats.pm
index 460a5969a..ac0a463e3 100644
--- a/IkiWiki/Plugin/pagestats.pm
+++ b/IkiWiki/Plugin/pagestats.pm
@@ -31,6 +31,19 @@ sub getsetup () {
 		},
 }
 
+sub linktext ($%) {
+	# Return the text of the link to a tag, depending on option linktext.
+	my ($page, %params) = @_;
+	if (exists $params{show} &&
+		exists $pagestate{$page} &&
+		exists $pagestate{$page}{meta}{$params{show}}) {
+		return $pagestate{$page}{meta}{$params{show}};
+	}
+	else {
+		return undef;
+	}
+}
+
 sub preprocess (@) {
 	my %params=@_;
 	$params{pages}="*" unless defined $params{pages};
@@ -84,7 +97,7 @@ sub preprocess (@) {
 		return "<table class='".(exists $params{class} ? $params{class} : "pageStats")."'>\n".
 			join("\n", map {
 				"<tr><td>".
-				htmllink($params{page}, $params{destpage}, $_, noimageinline => 1).
+				htmllink($params{page}, $params{destpage}, $_, noimageinline => 1, linktext => linktext($_, %params)).
 				"</td><td>".$counts{$_}."</td></tr>"
 			}
 			sort { $counts{$b} <=> $counts{$a} } keys %counts).
@@ -107,7 +120,7 @@ sub preprocess (@) {
 			
 			$res.="<li>" if $style eq 'list';
 			$res .= "<span class=\"$class\">".
-			        htmllink($params{page}, $params{destpage}, $page).
+							htmllink($params{page}, $params{destpage}, $page, linktext => linktext($page, %params)).
 			        "</span>\n";
 			$res.="</li>" if $style eq 'list';
 
diff --git a/doc/ikiwiki/directive/pagestats.mdwn b/doc/ikiwiki/directive/pagestats.mdwn
index 8d2be0946..ab8397366 100644
--- a/doc/ikiwiki/directive/pagestats.mdwn
+++ b/doc/ikiwiki/directive/pagestats.mdwn
@@ -40,4 +40,10 @@ that name still works, if its value is numeric.
 The optional `class` parameter can be used to control the class
 of the generated tag cloud `div` or page stats `table`.
 
+By default, the names of pages are shown. The `show` parameter
+can be used (with a non-numeric value) to show the titles or descriptions
+of pages instead (as set by the [[meta]] directive). For example:
+
+	\[[!pagestats pages="tags/*" show="title"]]
+
 [[!meta robots="noindex, follow"]]