External links using markdown not working on jekyll "posts"

Question

I have a jekyll site that I am trying to create some external links in the posts and both markdown and html is getting stripped when building. When I look at the source of the built site its just the text. This is only happening in the posts...when I add a markdown link within a page it works fine. Can someone point me in the right direction? Thanks. Below is an example:

in my post.md file This is a link to [Google](https://google.com)

when viewing the source from the index.html for home page out of _site directory the post shows up correctly but 'Google' is not a link, just text.

index.html source:

<p>This is a link to Google</p>

I have tried to add just an html tag as well in the post.md file but that provides the same results.

Thanks!

Answer 1

As stated by the OP. This is a theme issue and not a bug.