# Nessun modo per installare i plugin di markdown-it?

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**Created:** [23 Marzo 2018, 9:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/no-way-to-install-markdown-it-plugins/83686 "2018-03-23T21:59:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![wolftune](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/wolftune/32/103569_2.png) [@wolftune](https://meta.discourse.org/u/wolftune)\
**Post date:** [24 Marzo 2018, 12:40am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/no-way-to-install-markdown-it-plugins/83686/3 "2018-03-24T00:40:59Z")

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I’m trying to understand. There are plugins for markdown-it that expand its features. If Discourse used Markdown-it as a full dependency, it would be reasonable to wonder whether adding features to that dependency would bring them to Discourse.

But it seems that however Discourse uses markdown-it, it’s in some more limited way that cannot take plugins to expand the feature set.

Strange that the search link that worked before is broken now. Here’s an example direct link: [markdown-it footnote plugin](https://www.npmjs.com/package/markdown-it-footnote). That has instructions for adding footnote capacity to markdown-it, and the hope was that if Discourse uses markdown-it (which was my understanding), then it would inherit whatever capacity the local instance of markdown-it had to offer. But it seems that hope is not going to work out.

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