Writing Posts in Markdown

Writing & Content

In Nano CMS you write posts in Markdown, the same lightweight syntax used across GitHub and most modern publishing tools. The body of every post is rendered to clean HTML for you.

The basics

  • **bold** becomes bold, *italic* becomes italic
  • Start a line with #, ##, ### for headings
  • Begin lines with - for a bullet list, or 1. for a numbered list
  • Wrap text in backticks for inline code
  • Links are [text](https://example.com)

Quotes and code

A blockquote uses a leading >:

Markdown keeps your writing readable even before it is rendered.

Fenced blocks render as code, untouched:

rsync -a /blog/posts/ backup/

Safe by default

The renderer runs in safe mode, so any raw HTML you paste into the body is stripped rather than executed. That means a pasted <script> tag simply won't run - your blog can't be turned into an attack surface by its own content. Trusted embeds (like video) are handled separately with shortcodes.

Next up: Understanding Frontmatter, where the title, date, and category live.