diff --git a/_config.yml b/_config.yml
index e51e7c38fff..ba584e67c32 100644
--- a/_config.yml
+++ b/_config.yml
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ rdiscount:
     - autolink
     - footnotes
     - smart
-pygments: false # default python pygments have been replaced by pygments.rb
+highlighter: pygments
 
 paginate: 10          # Posts per page on the blog index
 pagination_dir: blog  # Directory base for pagination URLs eg. /blog/page/2/