diff --git a/src/components/Widgets/Markdown/serializers/index.js b/src/components/Widgets/Markdown/serializers/index.js
index 3f528643..2d1de14a 100644
--- a/src/components/Widgets/Markdown/serializers/index.js
+++ b/src/components/Widgets/Markdown/serializers/index.js
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ export const markdownToRemark = markdown => {
    */
   const parsed = unified()
     .use(markdownToRemarkPlugin, { fences: true, commonmark: true })
+    .use(markdownToRemarkRemoveTokenizers, { inlineTokenizers: ['url'] })
     .parse(markdown);
 
   /**
@@ -79,6 +80,16 @@ export const markdownToRemark = markdown => {
 };
 
 
+/**
+ * Remove named tokenizers from the parser, effectively deactivating them.
+ */
+function markdownToRemarkRemoveTokenizers({ inlineTokenizers }) {
+  inlineTokenizers && inlineTokenizers.forEach(tokenizer => {
+    delete this.Parser.prototype.inlineTokenizers[tokenizer];
+  });
+}
+
+
 /**
  * Serialize an MDAST to a Markdown string.
  */