- Render automatically generated post excerpts (used when no explicit description is set in frontmatter) as HTML instead of raw markdown on list pages (index, tags, archives).

If I understand right then the post description on the home page should have the markdown rendered in html ? If so using pandoc I still see the stars and other markdown stuff and no html formatting ???
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