Switching Back to Kramdown

I’ve written previously on switching to Redcarpet to process markdown. Since then, I was determined to find out if I could do the same thing with Kramdown since it’s already a dependency of Jekyll.¹

Turns out, that writing Github Flavored Markdown is super easy with Kramdown. So easy in fact, that I don’t understand how I didn’t figure this out earlier. Here are the markdown-related lines in my _config.yml:

# Markdown Rendering
markdown: kramdown
markdown_ext:  markdown,mkdown,mkdn,mkd,md,mdown

kramdown:
  input: GFM

That’s it! No additional gems to install or nothing. In fact, if you were using Redcarpet, you should delete it from your Gemfile.

Happy Jekyll-ing!