diff --git a/config.toml b/config.toml
index 80f9df3..dcbddb9 100644
--- a/config.toml
+++ b/config.toml
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@ generate_robots_txt = false
 
 [markdown]
 render_emoji = true
-highlight_code = false
 smart_punctuation = true
 bottom_footnotes = true
 github_alerts = true