diff --git a/modules/caddyhttp/markdown/markdown.go b/modules/caddyhttp/markdown/markdown.go
deleted file mode 100644
index acaa0c3c..00000000
--- a/modules/caddyhttp/markdown/markdown.go
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,88 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright 2015 Matthew Holt and The Caddy Authors
-//
-// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-// You may obtain a copy of the License at
-//
-//     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-//
-// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-// limitations under the License.
-
-package markdown
-
-import (
-	"bytes"
-	"net/http"
-	"strconv"
-	"strings"
-	"sync"
-
-	"github.com/russross/blackfriday/v2"
-
-	"github.com/caddyserver/caddy/v2"
-	"github.com/caddyserver/caddy/v2/modules/caddyhttp"
-)
-
-func init() {
-	caddy.RegisterModule(Markdown{})
-}
-
-// Markdown is a middleware for rendering a Markdown response body.
-type Markdown struct {
-}
-
-// CaddyModule returns the Caddy module information.
-func (Markdown) CaddyModule() caddy.ModuleInfo {
-	return caddy.ModuleInfo{
-		ID:  "http.handlers.markdown",
-		New: func() caddy.Module { return new(Markdown) },
-	}
-}
-
-func (m Markdown) ServeHTTP(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request, next caddyhttp.Handler) error {
-	buf := bufPool.Get().(*bytes.Buffer)
-	buf.Reset()
-	defer bufPool.Put(buf)
-
-	shouldBuf := func(status int, header http.Header) bool {
-		return strings.HasPrefix(header.Get("Content-Type"), "text/")
-	}
-
-	rec := caddyhttp.NewResponseRecorder(w, buf, shouldBuf)
-
-	err := next.ServeHTTP(rec, r)
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-	if !rec.Buffered() {
-		return nil
-	}
-
-	caddyhttp.CopyHeader(w.Header(), rec.Header())
-
-	output := blackfriday.Run(buf.Bytes())
-
-	w.Header().Set("Content-Length", strconv.Itoa(len(output)))
-	w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "text/html; charset=utf-8")
-	w.Header().Del("Accept-Ranges") // we don't know ranges for dynamically-created content
-	w.Header().Del("Etag")          // don't know a way to quickly generate etag for dynamic content
-	w.Header().Del("Last-Modified") // useless for dynamic content since it's always changing
-
-	w.WriteHeader(rec.Status())
-	w.Write(output)
-
-	return nil
-}
-
-var bufPool = sync.Pool{
-	New: func() interface{} {
-		return new(bytes.Buffer)
-	},
-}
-
-// Interface guard
-var _ caddyhttp.MiddlewareHandler = (*Markdown)(nil)
diff --git a/modules/caddyhttp/standard/imports.go b/modules/caddyhttp/standard/imports.go
index 0e4e1b88..b85a984f 100644
--- a/modules/caddyhttp/standard/imports.go
+++ b/modules/caddyhttp/standard/imports.go
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ import (
 	_ "github.com/caddyserver/caddy/v2/modules/caddyhttp/fileserver"
 	_ "github.com/caddyserver/caddy/v2/modules/caddyhttp/headers"
 	_ "github.com/caddyserver/caddy/v2/modules/caddyhttp/httpcache"
-	_ "github.com/caddyserver/caddy/v2/modules/caddyhttp/markdown"
 	_ "github.com/caddyserver/caddy/v2/modules/caddyhttp/requestbody"
 	_ "github.com/caddyserver/caddy/v2/modules/caddyhttp/reverseproxy"
 	_ "github.com/caddyserver/caddy/v2/modules/caddyhttp/reverseproxy/fastcgi"