Adding footnotes to Tumblr

Here’s a little known secret: you can add footnotes to a tumblr blog by switching your Account Preferences to use the Markdown1 editor. I looked at Marco’s blog2 and, after reviewing the markup, realized there had to be an automatic way to generate his footnote links. After extensive searching to no avail, I realized Markdown Extra3 has a few extra syntaxes (like footnotes). Nice!4

  1. Markdown is my favorite syntax for plain text documents (and now blogging). I use it almost all day at Crowd Favorite. ↩

  2. Marco is the co-founder of Tumblr and a very smart developer. ↩

  3. PHP Markdown Extra adds all the nicities you sometimes wish Markdown had. ↩

  4. I got carried away to illustrate my point. But, if you liked this post, you should recommend me to be listed in the tumblr directory. Thanks!

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