Hey there everyone 👋 Just a quick heads up on writing comments. You'll notice that the editor toolbar as now appeared in the comments section.

Overall, our editor is based/built on something called 'Markdown' once you get to know how it works it can be a very powerful addition to your writing and great for SEO.

The toolbar makes it easier to use some of the markdown syntax such as embedding content from Twitter, YouTube, Medium and Instagram etc as well as inserting images inline, links and highlighting specific texts or paragraphs or just general formatting.

YouTube

For example, if you want to embed a YouTube video then hit the little icon that looks like a lighting strike and it will spit out this.

{% embed %}

Then all you need to do is get the YouTube video link and then paste the YouTube link in like this:

{% embed https://youtu.be/PlB-UF8zV2Y %}

Then it renders in your post like this:

Images

In terms of images, just hit the image button and then select the image you want to upload. Once that's done - you will see this in the editor instead of the actual image:

![Image description](https://thismmalife-images.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/6rc1r6q90vjch0fkl7ua.jpeg)

That's because entering some keywords where it says 'Image description' allows for better accessibility and SEO so you have the option to drop some stuff in there. So for example for the image I have uploaded above I would update the Image description part so it looks like this:

![mma fighter wrapping his hands](https://thismmalife-images.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/6rc1r6q90vjch0fkl7ua.jpeg

Then it renders in your published post or comment like this:

Gifs

There are some other cool things available like how to insert Gifs from Giphy directly in your posts or comments which is pretty much the same as images but you just paste the link in from Giphy, so this previous image example:

![mma fighter wrapping his hands](https://thismmalife-images.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/6rc1r6q90vjch0fkl7ua.jpeg)

Instead looks like this (you can see where I have replaced the words in the description and the image url link to a giphy.com link):

![wonderboy saying thank you](https://media.giphy.com/media/3o6Zt6KHxJTbXCnSvu/giphy.gif)

It then renders in your published post or comment like this:

Your own previous posts

Sometimes you want to reference a previous This MMA Life post or someone else's, you can do that by doing what I have done here:

{% embed https://www.thismmalife.com/lee/miesha-tate-is-on-the-ortega-vs-rodriguez-card-anyone-think-she-has-a-chance-against-shevchenko-1j06 %}

Just replace the This MMA Life post link with your own. It will then render in your post or comment like this:

Miesha Tate is on the Ortega vs Rodriguez card. Anyone think she has a chance against Shevchenko?

Lee ・ Jul 12 ・ 1 min read

#discuss #opinion

Of course, you don't need to insert images, gifs or YouTube videos in your posts or comments, but if you do and still need a bit of help doing so, ping @thismmalife on Twitter or drop a comment below and we'll help to get you going.

In the meantime, thank you for contributing to this amazing community.