Using a site variable link as link in markdown editor

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I use some social media URLs such as LinkedIn and Twitter account as site variables (type: and I would like to know if it’s possible to use them in the markdown editor of a page?

Or is there a better way to do this?

  linkedin:
    label: LinkedIn Account
    type: url

And in my text editor:

Here is my **(link: _____ text: LinkedIn)** account.
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I don’t think you can use the information from the site variables in markdown, however, there is a twitter kirbytag that you could use for twitter http://getkirby.com/docs/content/text#twitter-profile-links and you could build similar custom kirbytags for your other social media links http://getkirby.com/docs/content/text#extending-kirbytext

The site variables are intended for use in your templates.

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You could make use of a filter as described here.

I created a small and very basic plugin on github.

A shortcode could be used to generate the links you need (e.g.: :linkedin: and your replacement).

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Thanks guys, both of you.
I missed that part in the documentation.
Very useful. That’s exactly what I was looking for.

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