This plugin adds an anchor to each heading so you can deep-link to headers. It is intended for formats such as reStructuredText that do not natively generate these anchors.
The HEADERID_LINK_CHAR config can be set to use a different char from * for anchor text.
For Markdown, this plugin is less relevant since the Python-Markdown library includes a Table of Contents extension that will generate link anchors. To enable the toc extension, add a line similar to the following example to your Pelican settings file:
MD_EXTENSIONS = ["codehilite(css_class=highlight)", "extra", "toc"]