diff --git a/posts/render.go b/posts/render.go
index 5fede8f..ce9d5b0 100644
--- a/posts/render.go
+++ b/posts/render.go
@@ -1,95 +1,98 @@
 package posts
 
 import (
 	"github.com/microcosm-cc/bluemonday"
 	"github.com/writeas/saturday"
 	"html"
 	"regexp"
 	"strings"
 	"unicode"
 )
 
 var (
 	blockReg    = regexp.MustCompile("<(ul|ol|blockquote)>\n")
 	endBlockReg = regexp.MustCompile("</([a-z]+)>\n</(ul|ol|blockquote)>")
 
 	markeddownReg = regexp.MustCompile("<p>(.+)</p>")
 )
 
 func ApplyMarkdown(data []byte) string {
 	mdExtensions := 0 |
 		blackfriday.EXTENSION_TABLES |
 		blackfriday.EXTENSION_FENCED_CODE |
 		blackfriday.EXTENSION_AUTOLINK |
 		blackfriday.EXTENSION_STRIKETHROUGH |
 		blackfriday.EXTENSION_SPACE_HEADERS |
 		blackfriday.EXTENSION_HEADER_IDS
 	htmlFlags := 0 |
 		blackfriday.HTML_USE_SMARTYPANTS |
 		blackfriday.HTML_SMARTYPANTS_DASHES
 
 	// Generate Markdown
 	md := blackfriday.Markdown([]byte(data), blackfriday.HtmlRenderer(htmlFlags, "", ""), mdExtensions)
 	// Strip out bad HTML
 	policy := bluemonday.UGCPolicy()
 	policy.AllowAttrs("class", "id").Globally()
 	outHTML := string(policy.SanitizeBytes(md))
 	// Strip newlines on certain block elements that render with them
 	outHTML = blockReg.ReplaceAllString(outHTML, "<$1>")
 	outHTML = endBlockReg.ReplaceAllString(outHTML, "</$1></$2>")
 
 	return outHTML
 }
 
 func ApplyBasicMarkdown(data []byte) string {
 	mdExtensions := 0 |
 		blackfriday.EXTENSION_STRIKETHROUGH |
 		blackfriday.EXTENSION_SPACE_HEADERS |
 		blackfriday.EXTENSION_HEADER_IDS
 	htmlFlags := 0 |
 		blackfriday.HTML_SKIP_HTML |
 		blackfriday.HTML_USE_SMARTYPANTS |
 		blackfriday.HTML_SMARTYPANTS_DASHES
 
 	// Generate Markdown
 	md := blackfriday.Markdown([]byte(data), blackfriday.HtmlRenderer(htmlFlags, "", ""), mdExtensions)
 	// Strip out bad HTML
 	policy := bluemonday.UGCPolicy()
 	policy.AllowAttrs("class", "id").Globally()
 	outHTML := string(policy.SanitizeBytes(md))
 	outHTML = markeddownReg.ReplaceAllString(outHTML, "$1")
 	outHTML = strings.TrimRightFunc(outHTML, unicode.IsSpace)
 
 	return outHTML
 }
 
 // ApplyBasicAccessibleMarkdown applies Markdown to the given data, rendering basic text formatting and preserving hard
-// line breaks. It is meant for formatting text in small, multi-line UI elements, like user profile biographies.
+// line breaks in HTML. It is meant for formatting text in small, multi-line UI elements, like user profile biographies.
 func ApplyBasicAccessibleMarkdown(data []byte) string {
 	mdExtensions := 0 |
 		blackfriday.EXTENSION_STRIKETHROUGH |
 		blackfriday.EXTENSION_SPACE_HEADERS |
 		blackfriday.EXTENSION_HEADER_IDS |
 		blackfriday.EXTENSION_HARD_LINE_BREAK
 	htmlFlags := 0 |
-		blackfriday.HTML_SKIP_HTML |
 		blackfriday.HTML_USE_SMARTYPANTS |
+		blackfriday.HTML_USE_XHTML |
 		blackfriday.HTML_SMARTYPANTS_DASHES
 
 	// Generate Markdown
 	md := blackfriday.Markdown([]byte(data), blackfriday.HtmlRenderer(htmlFlags, "", ""), mdExtensions)
 	// Strip out bad HTML
 	policy := bluemonday.UGCPolicy()
 	policy.AllowAttrs("class", "id").Globally()
+	policy.AllowAttrs("rel").OnElements("a")
+	policy.RequireNoFollowOnLinks(false)
 	outHTML := string(policy.SanitizeBytes(md))
+	// Strip surrounding <p> tags that blackfriday adds
 	outHTML = markeddownReg.ReplaceAllString(outHTML, "$1")
 	outHTML = strings.TrimRightFunc(outHTML, unicode.IsSpace)
 
 	return outHTML
 }
 
 // StripHTMLWithoutEscaping strips HTML tags with bluemonday's StrictPolicy, then unescapes the HTML
 // entities added in by sanitizing the content.
 func StripHTMLWithoutEscaping(content string) string {
 	return html.UnescapeString(bluemonday.StrictPolicy().Sanitize(content))
 }