Dries Buytaert Switches Blog Workflow to Markdown
- Dries Buytaert Switches Blog Workflow to Markdown Using Drupal’s Markdown Easy Module
- Source: Switching to Markdown after 20 years of HTML by Dries Buytaert (August 2025)
After writing over 1,600 blog posts in raw HTML, Dries Buytaert has transitioned to using Markdown—via the contrib module Markdown Easy—for a faster, cleaner publishing workflow in Drupal. While he had long used Markdown in tools like Obsidian, publishing remained HTML-heavy until this recent change.
Markdown Easy, now at version 2.0, supports CommonMark and allows mixing HTML and Markdown, a feature Dries helped shape with maintainer Mike Anello. Dries also highlights his custom token system that processes enhanced Markdown elements, like responsive images with lazy loading and Schema.org support. A full HTML-to-Markdown migration is under consideration but not yet committed.
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