You can configure to use markdown as default.

controllers/admin.go

@@ -66,6 +66,9 @@ func (c *Admin) PreferencesGet(ctx *web.Context) string {
 	if comment != "" {
 		vars["EnableComment"] = comment
 	}
+	if blogConfig.Get("markdown") == "1" {
+		vars["markdown"] = "1"
+	}
 	output := mustache.RenderFile("templates/preferences.mustache", vars)
 	return render(output, "Blog Preferernces")
 }
@@ -81,6 +84,11 @@ func (c *Admin) PreferencesPost(ctx *web.Context) {
 	blogConfig.Update("dateFormat", ctx.Params["dateFormat"])
 	blogConfig.Update("postsPerPage", ctx.Params["postsPerPage"])
 	blogConfig.Update("enableComment", ctx.Params["enableComment"])
+	markdown := "0"
+	if ctx.Params["markdown"] == "on" {
+		markdown = "1"
+	}
+	blogConfig.Update("markdown", markdown)
 	ctx.Redirect(302, "/admin/preferences")
 }
 
@@ -131,7 +139,12 @@ func (c *Admin) ListPost(ctx *web.Context) string {
 	p := PostModelInit()
 	results := p.PostListing(page)
 
-	output := mustache.RenderFile("templates/list-post.mustache", map[string][]map[string]string {"posts":results})
+	vars := map[string]interface{} {"posts":results}
+	if blogConfig.Get("markdown") == "1" {
+		vars["markdown"] = "1"
+	}
+
+	output := mustache.RenderFile("templates/list-post.mustache", vars)
 	return render(output, "List Posts")
 }
 

models/preferences.go

@@ -45,6 +45,8 @@ func (preference *PreferenceModel) Get(name string) string {
 			return "10"
 		case "enableComment":
 			return "on"
+		case "markdown":
+			return "0"
 		}
 	} else if err != nil {
 		panic(err)

templates/list-post.mustache

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <h1>List of Your Posts</h1>
-<p>[ <a href="/admin/post/new">New Post</a> <a href="/admin/preferences">Preferences</a> ]</p>
+<p>[ <a href="/admin/post/new{{#markdown}}?markdown=1{{/markdown}}">New Post</a> <a href="/admin/preferences">Preferences</a> ]</p>
 <form method="post">
 <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" style="width: 100%; font-size: 13px;">
 	{{#posts}}

templates/preferences.mustache

@@ -5,7 +5,9 @@
 	<label for="postsPerPage"><abbr title="Posts Per Page">PPP</abbr></label>
 	<input type="text" id="postsPerPage" name="postsPerPage" style="width: 300px" value="{{PostsPerPage}}" /><br />
 	<label for="enableComment">Comment?</label>
-	<input type="checkbox" id="enableComment" name="enableComment"{{#EnableComment}} checked="checked"{{/EnableComment}} />
+	<input type="checkbox" id="enableComment" name="enableComment"{{#EnableComment}} checked="checked"{{/EnableComment}} /><br />
+	<label for="markdown">Markdown?</label>
+	<input type="checkbox" id="markdown" name="markdown"{{#markdown}} checked="checked"{{/markdown}} />
 	<br />
 	<input type="submit" value="Save!" />
 </form>