diff --git a/test_site/content/tests/rest_error.rst b/test_site/content/tests/rest_error.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..239c184
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test_site/content/tests/rest_error.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+title: reStructuredText Test Page with Deliberate Error
+category: tests
+tags: [rest, sample]
+---
+
+reStructuredText Page with Deliberate Error
+===========================================
+
+For issue #144: reStructuredText rendering errors don't show
+filename, just "string"
+
+The following will trigger a rst rendering error:
+    - Should be an extra newline between the
+    - first bullet point and the preceeding paragraph
+This is line 15 but wok will report line 11 due to four lines of
+metadata above.
+
diff --git a/wok/page.py b/wok/page.py
index 27e84f5..875804c 100644
--- a/wok/page.py
+++ b/wok/page.py
@@ -103,14 +103,20 @@ def from_file(cls, path, options, engine, renderer=renderers.Plain):
             elif len(splits) == 2:
                 header = splits[0]
                 page.meta = yaml.load(header)
-                page.original = splits[1]
+                # prepend X newlines to original document, where X
+                # is number of lines of metadata (including "---"
+                # delimiter).  Fix for issue #145: rendering error
+                # line numbers are incorrect.
+                newlines = '\n' * (2+header.count('\n'))
+                page.original = newlines + splits[1]
                 page.original_preview = page.meta.get('preview', '')
 
             elif len(splits) >= 3:
                 header = splits[0]
                 page.meta = {}
-                page.original = '\n'.join(splits[1:])
-                page.original_preview = splits[1]
+                newlines = '\n' * (2+header.count('\n'))
+                page.original = newlines + '\n'.join(splits[1:])
+                page.original_preview = newlines + splits[1]
                 page.meta.update(yaml.load(header))
                 logging.debug('Got preview')