diff --git a/Gmeek.py b/Gmeek.py
index 957f94e..363b5d8 100644
--- a/Gmeek.py
+++ b/Gmeek.py
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ class GMEEK():
         os.mkdir(self.post_dir)
 
     def defaultConfig(self):
-        dconfig={"singlePage":[],"startSite":"","filingNum":"","onePageListNum":15,"commentLabelColor":"#006b75","yearColorList":["#bc4c00", "#0969da", "#1f883d", "#A333D0"],"i18n":"CN","themeMode":"manual","dayTheme":"light","nightTheme":"dark","urlMode":"pinyin","script":"","style":"","bottomText":"","showPostSource":1,"iconList":{},"UTC":+8,"rssSplit":"sentence","exlink":{}}
+        dconfig={"singlePage":[],"startSite":"","filingNum":"","onePageListNum":15,"commentLabelColor":"#006b75","yearColorList":["#bc4c00", "#0969da", "#1f883d", "#A333D0"],"i18n":"CN","themeMode":"manual","dayTheme":"light","nightTheme":"dark","urlMode":"pinyin","script":"","style":"","bottomText":"","showPostSource":1,"iconList":{},"UTC":+8,"rssSplit":"sentence","exlink":{},"useMediumZoom":1,}
         config=json.loads(open('config.json', 'r', encoding='utf-8').read())
         self.blogBase={**dconfig,**config}.copy()
         self.blogBase["postListJson"]=json.loads('{}')
@@ -138,6 +138,10 @@ class GMEEK():
             post_body=re.sub(r'</math-renderer>','',post_body)
             issue["script"]=issue["script"]+'<script>MathJax = {tex: {inlineMath: [["$", "$"]]}};</script><script async src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/mathjax@3/es5/tex-mml-chtml.js"></script>'
 
+        if postBase["useMediumZoom"] == 1:
+            # match <a> tags containing only <img> tags regardless of newlines and remove them
+            post_body = re.sub(r"<a [^>]*>\s*(<img [^>]*>)\s*</a>", r"\1", post_body, flags=re.DOTALL)
+
         postBase["postTitle"]=issue["postTitle"]
         postBase["postUrl"]=self.blogBase["homeUrl"]+"/"+issue["postUrl"]
         postBase["description"]=issue["description"]
diff --git a/templates/post.html b/templates/post.html
index 6bd90d2..f6efd9f 100644
--- a/templates/post.html
+++ b/templates/post.html
@@ -65,6 +65,14 @@
 <script>
 document.getElementById("pathHome").setAttribute("d",IconList["home"]);
 document.getElementById("pathIssue").setAttribute("d",IconList["github"]);
+{% if blogBase['useMediumZoom']==1 -%}
+    // importing the medium-zoom library for <img>
+    let medium_zoom_script = document.createElement('script');
+    medium_zoom_script.src = 'https://unpkg.com/medium-zoom/dist/medium-zoom.min.js';
+    // only impose medium-zoom to images in the postBody
+    medium_zoom_script.onload = function() {mediumZoom('#postBody img');};
+    document.head.appendChild(medium_zoom_script);
+{%- endif %}
 {% if blogBase['commentNum']>0 -%}
     cmButton=document.getElementById("cmButton");
     span=document.createElement("span");