If I write a plaintext URL, is it posisble to have Jekyll render that as a Link?
Writing something like [http://www.example.com/link/to/some/page.html](http://www.example.com/link/to/some/page.html) is rather redundant.
Jekyll’s default Markdown processor Kramdown has support for automatic links using <> brackets. Example:
Writing something like <http://example.com> is concise.
I appreciate this as a workaround, but it isn’t quite what I was looking to implement. I was hoping for a plugin that finds “naked” URLs and turns them into anchor links.
It is odd that there’s no obvious plugin to add auto-linking. The closest I’ve found is jekyll-autolink_email (which only handles email links). However it uses the Rinku library to insert the auto-links, so the plugin could be simply modified to handle HTTP URLs: