diff --git a/composer.json b/composer.json
index f5846f7..3ac37f9 100644
--- a/composer.json
+++ b/composer.json
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 {
     "require": {
         "erusev/parsedown": "^1.7",
-        "symfony/yaml": "^5.1"
+        "symfony/yaml": "^5.1",
+        "erusev/parsedown-extra": "^0.8.1"
     }
 }
diff --git a/composer.lock b/composer.lock
index bdfef4e..d4cc394 100644
--- a/composer.lock
+++ b/composer.lock
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
         "Read more about it at https://getcomposer.org/doc/01-basic-usage.md#installing-dependencies",
         "This file is @generated automatically"
     ],
-    "content-hash": "0fdd968fab65e7cab4cf2a05e9032a77",
+    "content-hash": "8848a84c2703f2931adee8658e6b88bf",
     "packages": [
         {
             "name": "erusev/parsedown",
@@ -52,6 +52,53 @@
             ],
             "time": "2019-12-30T22:54:17+00:00"
         },
+        {
+            "name": "erusev/parsedown-extra",
+            "version": "0.8.1",
+            "source": {
+                "type": "git",
+                "url": "https://github.com/erusev/parsedown-extra.git",
+                "reference": "91ac3ff98f0cea243bdccc688df43810f044dcef"
+            },
+            "dist": {
+                "type": "zip",
+                "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/erusev/parsedown-extra/zipball/91ac3ff98f0cea243bdccc688df43810f044dcef",
+                "reference": "91ac3ff98f0cea243bdccc688df43810f044dcef",
+                "shasum": ""
+            },
+            "require": {
+                "erusev/parsedown": "^1.7.4"
+            },
+            "require-dev": {
+                "phpunit/phpunit": "^4.8.35"
+            },
+            "type": "library",
+            "autoload": {
+                "psr-0": {
+                    "ParsedownExtra": ""
+                }
+            },
+            "notification-url": "https://packagist.org/downloads/",
+            "license": [
+                "MIT"
+            ],
+            "authors": [
+                {
+                    "name": "Emanuil Rusev",
+                    "email": "hello@erusev.com",
+                    "homepage": "http://erusev.com"
+                }
+            ],
+            "description": "An extension of Parsedown that adds support for Markdown Extra.",
+            "homepage": "https://github.com/erusev/parsedown-extra",
+            "keywords": [
+                "markdown",
+                "markdown extra",
+                "parsedown",
+                "parser"
+            ],
+            "time": "2019-12-30T23:20:37+00:00"
+        },
         {
             "name": "symfony/deprecation-contracts",
             "version": "v2.1.3",
diff --git a/git-it-write.php b/git-it-write.php
index 9fa093c..6e457c0 100644
--- a/git-it-write.php
+++ b/git-it-write.php
@@ -5,10 +5,10 @@
 Description: Publish markdown files present in a Github repository as posts to WordPress automatically
 Author: Aakash Chakravarthy
 Author URI: https://www.aakashweb.com/
-Version: 1.0.1
+Version: 1.1
 */
 
-define( 'GIW_VERSION', '1.0.1' );
+define( 'GIW_VERSION', '1.1' );
 define( 'GIW_PATH', plugin_dir_path( __FILE__ ) ); // All have trailing slash
 define( 'GIW_ADMIN_URL', trailingslashit( plugin_dir_url( __FILE__ ) . 'admin' ) );
 
diff --git a/includes/parsedown.php b/includes/parsedown.php
index f3631b2..f482b84 100644
--- a/includes/parsedown.php
+++ b/includes/parsedown.php
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 use Symfony\Component\Yaml\Yaml;
 
-class GIW_Parsedown extends Parsedown{
+class GIW_Parsedown extends ParsedownExtra{
 
     public $default_front_matter = array(
         'title' => '',
@@ -16,7 +16,8 @@ class GIW_Parsedown extends Parsedown{
 
     public $uploaded_images = array();
 
-    public function text( $text ){
+    // Parses the front matter and the markdown from the content
+    public function parse_content( $text ){
 
         $pattern = '/^[\s\r\n]?---[\s\r\n]?$/sm';
         $parts = preg_split( $pattern, PHP_EOL.ltrim( $text ) );
@@ -24,7 +25,7 @@ public function text( $text ){
         if ( count( $parts ) < 3 ) {
             return array(
                 'front_matter' => $this->default_front_matter,
-                'html' => parent::text( $text )
+                'markdown' => $text
             );
         }
 
@@ -35,7 +36,7 @@ public function text( $text ){
 
         return array(
             'front_matter' => $front_matter,
-            'html' => parent::text( $markdown )
+            'markdown' => $markdown
         );
 
     }
diff --git a/includes/publisher.php b/includes/publisher.php
index 9e77dac..8f8aa25 100644
--- a/includes/publisher.php
+++ b/includes/publisher.php
@@ -119,9 +119,11 @@ public function create_post( $post_id, $item_slug, $item_props, $parent ){
                 return false;
             }
 
-            $parsed_content = $this->parsedown->text( $item_content );
+            $parsed_content = $this->parsedown->parse_content( $item_content );
+
             $front_matter = $parsed_content[ 'front_matter' ];
-            $content = GIW_Utils::process_content_template( $this->content_template, $parsed_content[ 'html' ] );
+            $html = $this->parsedown->text( $parsed_content[ 'markdown' ] );
+            $content = GIW_Utils::process_content_template( $this->content_template, $html );
 
             // Get post details
             $post_title = empty( $front_matter[ 'title' ] ) ? $item_slug : $front_matter[ 'title' ];
diff --git a/readme.txt b/readme.txt
index 32a4e3c..b7844c7 100644
--- a/readme.txt
+++ b/readme.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ License: GPLv2 or later
 Requires PHP: 5.3
 Requires at least: 4.4
 Tested up to: 5.5
-Stable tag: 1.0.1
+Stable tag: 1.1
 
 Publish markdown files present in a Github repository as posts to WordPress automatically
 
@@ -132,6 +132,9 @@ Yes, if you want to pull posts from the a folder in a repository then you can sp
 
 ## Changelog
 
+### 1.1
+* New: Support for Parsedown extra
+
 ### 1.0.1
 * Fix: Webhook is changed to `POST` method.
 * Fix: Readme formatting.