title: Syntax highlighting markdown code blocks in Jekyll (without using liquid tags)
body: <p>It seems like syntax highlighting in Jekyll is limited to using liquid tags and pygments like so:</p>
  
  <pre><code>{% highlight bash %}
  cd ~
  {% endhighlight %}
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But I've imported my existing blog from wordpress and it was written in markdown (using markdown code blocks) and I don't want to have to go through each post and fix the code blocks. Also, I want to keep my posts in pure markdown format in case I ever need to switch blogging platforms again.</p>
  
  <p>I switched my Jekyll parser to <code>redcarpet</code> with the hope that I could use this markdown  syntax:</p>
  
  <pre><code>```bash
  cd ~
  ```
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But it doesn't seem to work. It just wraps it in a normal <code>code</code> block. Any ideas?</p>