Title: Markdown plugin bug
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Markdown plugin bug

 *  [maki](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maki/)
 * (@maki)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/markdown-plugin-bug/)
 * Using 1.2-mingus and the Markdown plugin, whenever there is a code block in the
   text, the first paragraph of the whole entry gets trucated. Sometimes it gets
   replaced with a bunch of `<<<<<<<<<<`; sometimes it just…disappears.
    Example:
   [this entry](http://www.createwebmagic.com/lab/index.php?p=6) (the first paragraph
   got replaced by <<<<<<<) The original Markdown text is [here](http://www.createwebmagic.com/lab/markdown.txt).

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 *  [Zarniwoop](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zarniwoop/)
 * (@zarniwoop)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/markdown-plugin-bug/#post-56240)
 * I tested your example with 1.2-mingus and it works properly.
    Sorry, but I did
   it only after correcting a bug (or is it a feature?) in the Markdown-Plugin (
   see [this post](http://wordpress.org/support/6/6310)).
 *  [rainvt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rainvt/)
 * (@rainvt)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/markdown-plugin-bug/#post-56350)
 * Maki,
    I expreience the same problem on my blog at [http://rain.xidus.net.](http://rain.xidus.net.)
   But – with the exact same posts- I don’t expreience it on my local machine. I
   get the feeling it probably has something to do with the version of PHP used:
   my local copy is 4.3.2 (with the Zend engine, on PPC, if you’re interested) while
   the version on xidus is 4.1.2. I’m going to continue ot look into this, and see
   if the php version is indeed the problem.
 *  [rainvt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rainvt/)
 * (@rainvt)
 * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/markdown-plugin-bug/#post-56427)
 * Michel Fortin, who ported Markdown to PHP, has released version 1.0b8 of Markdown
   PHP. It fixes the extra `<` problem. Grab it [from his site](http://www.michelf.com/projects/php-markdown/).
 *  [Zarniwoop](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zarniwoop/)
 * (@zarniwoop)
 * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/markdown-plugin-bug/#post-56428)
 * Please remark that his plugin enables Markdown for comments resulting in a unusual(
   for comment writers) linebreaking. You can change this by commenting out `remove_filter('
   comment_text', 'wpautop');` and `add_filter('comment_text', 'Markdown', 6);` 
   in the plugin (i.e. put two slashes `//` at the beginning of these two lines).

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 4 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [Zarniwoop](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zarniwoop/)
 * Last activity: [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/markdown-plugin-bug/#post-56428)
 * Status: not resolved

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