diff --git a/site/hakyll-std/TableOfContents.hs b/site/hakyll-std/TableOfContents.hs
index f43d57570..c4caeb623 100644
--- a/site/hakyll-std/TableOfContents.hs
+++ b/site/hakyll-std/TableOfContents.hs
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ import Text.Pandoc
 import Text.Pandoc.Walk (walk, query)
 
 import Data.List (groupBy)
+import Data.Text (unpack)
 import Data.Tree (Forest, Tree(Node))
 #if !(MIN_VERSION_base(4,11,0))
 import Data.Monoid ((<>), mconcat)
@@ -53,9 +54,9 @@ markupHeader :: Tree Block -> H.Html
 markupHeader (Node (Header _ (ident, _, keyvals) inline) headers)
   | headers == [] = H.li $ link
   | otherwise     = H.li $ link <> (H.ol $ markupHeaders headers)
-  where render x  = writeHtmlString def (Pandoc nullMeta [(Plain x)])
+  where render x  = write5HtmlString def (Pandoc nullMeta [(Plain x)])
         section   = fromMaybe (render inline) (lookup "toc" keyvals)
-        link      = H.a ! A.href (H.toValue $ "#" ++ ident) $ preEscapedToHtml section
+        link      = H.a ! A.href (H.toValue $ "#" ++ ident) $ preEscapedToHtml $ unpack section
 markupHeader _ = error "what"
 
 markupHeaders :: Forest Block -> H.Html
diff --git a/site/hakyll-std/hakyll-std.hs b/site/hakyll-std/hakyll-std.hs
index 068303eed..f337a05ce 100755
--- a/site/hakyll-std/hakyll-std.hs
+++ b/site/hakyll-std/hakyll-std.hs
@@ -5,9 +5,13 @@
    --package pandoc
    -- ghc
 -} 
--- Need to stick stack-ghc8.2.yaml for hakyll/pandoc.  hledger and
--- Shake use stack.yaml by default so you may end up downloading and
--- building two snapshots.  hakyll-std will go away soon hopefully.
+-- pandoc must be >= 2                                                                                                                                                                           
+--                                                                                                                                                                                               
+-- must use older stack-ghc8.2.yaml for hakyll/pandoc                                                                                                                                            
+-- (hledger and Shake use stack.yaml by default so you may 
+-- end up downloading and building two large snapshots)                                                                                        
+--                                                                                                                                                                                               
+-- hakyll-std will go away soon hopefully                                                                                                                                                       
 
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