Using an image caption in Markdown Jekyll

Question

I am hosting a Jekyll Blog on Github and write my posts with Markdown. When I am adding images, I do it the following way:

![name of the image](http://link.com/ima

Answer 1

You can try to use pandoc as your converter. Here's a jekyll plugin to implement this. Pandoc will be able to add a figure caption the same as your alt attribute automatically.

But you have to push the compiled site because github doesn't allow plugins in Github pages for security.