Zola Shortcodes don't support markdown

[jbcurtin]

Bug Report

Environment

Zola version: 0.15.3

Expected Behavior

Unable to put links into a shortcode snippet using markdown link syntax.

Current Behavior

The contents of the shortcode is rendered as is, without any html.

Step to reproduce

• Create a shortcode with body
• Add contents, including link to something
• Render the page using zola

Example

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[Keats]

It's lacking context but shortcodes as in with .html extension will render HTML. If you want to render Markdown, use .md shortcodes: https://www.getzola.org/documentation/content/shortcodes/

[MaxIhlenfeldt]

What about reference-style links? e.g. something like this:

{% foo() %}
    [Text][link]
{% end %}

[link]: https://example.com

This currently doesn't seem to work.

[Keats]

No, shortcodes are isolated from the main markdown content.

[MaxIhlenfeldt]

I suppose that is by design and something like that will never work?

[Keats]

Is your example using a .md shortcode? Looking back at it it should probably work in my mind?

[MaxIhlenfeldt]

I first had an HTML shortcode that used the markdown filter, because I didn't know .md shortcodes were possible, but I also can't get it to work with a .md shortcode.

[Keats]

Hm I would expect the .md shortcodes to work, can you open an issue?

[MaxIhlenfeldt]

@Keats sorry, this got buried in my inbox for way too long... finally opened #2710.