Writing Content

2026-01-15

Markdown Content Writing

Thomas Laurenson

letsblaze renders standard Markdown with a few additions. This post covers everything available when writing content.

Headings

<h1> is reserved for the page title, rendered automatically by the theme. Use <h2> through <h6> for section headings within content.

H2

H3

H4

H5

H6

Lists

Ordered and unordered lists render with clean browser defaults.

1. First item
2. Second item
3. Third item

• Unordered item
• Another item
• And another

Blockquotes

The web is for everyone. Build accordingly.

Attribution with a cite element:

Fast sites are kind sites.

— Someone who cares about UX

Footnotes

Standard Markdown footnotes work out of the box.¹

Inline elements

Standard Markdown inline elements:

• Bold — **text**
• Italic — _text_
• Code — `code`
• Strikethrough — ~~text~~

letsblaze also ships shortcodes for elements with no Markdown equivalent:

• Subscript: H₂ O
• Superscript: E = mc²
• Highlight: marked text
• Abbreviation: HTML

Emoji

With enableEmoji = true in hugo.toml, use shorthand codes: 🚀 🎉 🔥

Unicode decimal and hexadecimal codes also work everywhere without configuration: 😄 🔥