Markdown to use advanced features

Author: rxtur

README.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ## What is Blogifier
 
-Blogifier is simple, beautiful, light-weight open source blog written in .NET Core. This cross-platform, highly extendable and customizable web application brings all the best blogging features in small, portable package.
+Blogifier is multi-user, lightweight blog written in .NET Core with Angular front-end. For programmers, it is easy maintain and extend and for designers, it is simple to customize using familiar tools.
 
 [![Build Status](https://dev.azure.com/rtur/Blogifier/_apis/build/status/blogifierdotnet.Blogifier)](https://dev.azure.com/rtur/Blogifier/_build/latest?definitionId=3)
 

src/App/Controllers/BlogController.cs

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-using Core.Data;
+using Core;
+using Core.Data;
 using Core.Services;
-using Markdig;
 using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Authorization;
 using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Identity;
 using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc;
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ public async Task Rss(string type)
 
                     foreach (var post in posts)
                     {
-                        post.Description = Markdown.ToHtml(post.Description);
+                        post.Description = post.Description.MdToHtml();
                         await writer.Write(post);
                     }
                 }

src/Core/Api/NotificationsController.cs

@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 using Core.Data.Models;
 using Core.Helpers;
 using Core.Services;
-using Markdig;
 using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Cors;
 using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Http;
 using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc;
@@ -142,7 +141,7 @@ public async Task<NotificationModel> GetNotifications(string type, int page = 1)
                 items = await _data.Notifications.GetList(n => n.AlertType == noteType && n.Active == true, pager);
                 foreach (var item in items)
                 {
-                    item.Content = Markdown.ToHtml(item.Content);
+                    item.Content = item.Content.MdToHtml();
                 }
             }
 

src/Core/Api/PostsController.cs

@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 using Core.Data;
 using Core.Helpers;
 using Core.Services;
-using Markdig;
 using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Authorization;
 using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Cors;
 using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Http;
@@ -57,8 +56,8 @@ public async Task<ActionResult<PageListModel>> Search(
                 {
                     foreach (var p in results)
                     {
-                        p.Description = Markdown.ToHtml(p.Description);
-                        p.Content = Markdown.ToHtml(p.Content);
+                        p.Description = p.Description.MdToHtml();
+                        p.Content = p.Content.MdToHtml();
                     }
                 }
 
@@ -101,8 +100,8 @@ public async Task<ActionResult<PageListModel>> Get(
                 {
                     foreach (var p in results)
                     {
-                        p.Description = Markdown.ToHtml(p.Description);
-                        p.Content = Markdown.ToHtml(p.Content);
+                        p.Description = p.Description.MdToHtml();
+                        p.Content = p.Content.MdToHtml();
                     }
                 }
 
@@ -129,8 +128,8 @@ public async Task<PostItem> GetPost(int id, [FromQuery]string format = "html")
                 var post = await _data.BlogPosts.GetItem(p => p.Id == id, !User.Identity.IsAuthenticated);
                 if (format.ToUpper() == "HTML")
                 {
-                    post.Description = Markdown.ToHtml(post.Description);
-                    post.Content = Markdown.ToHtml(post.Content);
+                    post.Description = post.Description.MdToHtml();
+                    post.Content = post.Content.MdToHtml();
                 }
                 return post;
             }
@@ -170,8 +169,8 @@ public async Task<PostModel> GetBySlug(string slug, [FromQuery]string format = "
 
                 if (format.ToUpper() == "HTML")
                 {
-                    model.Post.Description = Markdown.ToHtml(model.Post.Description);
-                    model.Post.Content = Markdown.ToHtml(model.Post.Content);
+                    model.Post.Description = model.Post.Description.MdToHtml();
+                    model.Post.Content = model.Post.Content.MdToHtml();
                 }
                 return model;
             }

src/Core/Core.csproj

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
   <PropertyGroup>
     <TargetFramework>netcoreapp2.2</TargetFramework>
-    <Version>2.4.1.1</Version>
+    <Version>2.4.1.2</Version>
   </PropertyGroup>
 
   <PropertyGroup Condition="'$(Configuration)|$(Platform)'=='Debug|AnyCPU'">

src/Core/Extensions/StringExtensions.cs

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-using System;
+using Markdig;
+using System;
 using System.Globalization;
 using System.Linq;
 using System.Text;
@@ -72,6 +73,16 @@ public static string ToDescription(this string str)
             return str.Length > 300 ? str.Substring(0, 300) : str;
         }
 
+        public static string MdToHtml(this string str)
+        {
+            var mpl = new MarkdownPipelineBuilder()
+                .UsePipeTables()
+                .UseAdvancedExtensions()
+                .Build();
+
+            return Markdown.ToHtml(str, mpl);
+        }
+
         public static bool Contains(this string source, string toCheck, StringComparison comp)
         {
             return source.IndexOf(toCheck, comp) >= 0;