Title: Markdown stopped working Last modified: March 13, 2017 --- # Markdown stopped working * Resolved [mickmel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mickmel/) * (@mickmel) * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/markdown-stopped-working/) * Sometime in the last week or so, markdown stopped working. We’re on the latest Jetpack and the latest WP. I tried reverting to an older version of Jetpack, but that didn’t help. * I also disconnected Jetpack and reconnected, but that didn’t help either. * Enabled: [https://www.screencast.com/t/mn69FVXJ](https://www.screencast.com/t/mn69FVXJ) Post with Markdown: [https://www.screencast.com/t/eRm5SvmT](https://www.screencast.com/t/eRm5SvmT) Preview with unrendered Markdown: [https://www.screencast.com/t/QLeNJ5uzhDE](https://www.screencast.com/t/QLeNJ5uzhDE) * Any ideas? Viewing 14 replies - 1 through 14 (of 14 total) * Plugin Author [Jeremy Herve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeherve/) * (@jeherve) * Jetpack Mechanic 🚀 * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/markdown-stopped-working/#post-8889804) * Sorry about that! * Could you try to deactivate all other plugins on your site, one at a time, and let me know if you find a conflicting plugin? * If that doesn’t help, could you post your site URL here so I can have a look? * If you want it to remain private, you can also contact us via this contact form: [http://jetpack.com/contact-support/](http://jetpack.com/contact-support/) * Thanks! * Plugin Author [Jeremy Herve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeherve/) * (@jeherve) * Jetpack Mechanic 🚀 * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/markdown-stopped-working/#post-8890114) * Could you also try to add the following to a functionaliy plugin like [this one](http://jetpack.com/contact-support/) on your site? * `add_filter( 'pre_option_wpcom_publish_posts_with_markdown', '__return_true' );` * Let me know how it goes. * Thread Starter [mickmel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mickmel/) * (@mickmel) * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/markdown-stopped-working/#post-8890441) * Jeremy — I tested on four more sites that we manage; three of them have the same issue, but I’m unable to determine what the differing factor is. I thought perhaps it was related to SSL (which was a valid theory for that 3 out of 4), but I’ve tested further and SSL doesn’t seem to affect it. * I should add that it was a caching issue that caused the old version not to work. Downgrading to the previous version of Jetpack and then clearing the cache solves. For the other sites, I simply can’t get Markdown to work. * Sites where it is broken: gearthblog.com (temporarily fixed by downgrading Jetpack) greenmellenmedia.com mickmel.com * It’s certainly something in Jetpack 4.7, but I can’t determine what… * Plugin Author [Jeremy Herve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeherve/) * (@jeherve) * Jetpack Mechanic 🚀 * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/markdown-stopped-working/#post-8890846) * Thanks for the extra details! * What happens when you deactivate the Markdown module, and the reactivate it? * If that doesn’t help, could you try to apply the snippet I posted above to a functionality plugin and let me know if it helps? * Thanks! * Plugin Author [Jeremy Herve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeherve/) * (@jeherve) * Jetpack Mechanic 🚀 * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/markdown-stopped-working/#post-8890989) * Could you also go to Settings > Writing in your dashboard, and make sure the Markdown option is checked? * Thread Starter [mickmel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mickmel/) * (@mickmel) * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/markdown-stopped-working/#post-8891186) * Wow, that was it! (Settings –> Writing). I didn’t even know to check there. It seems to be a new checkbox with Jetpack 4.7; some of our sites had it checked after the update, and some didn’t. Weird. * Thanks for the help! * Any idea what the purpose of that box is? Why not just let the main Jetpack Markdown setting control what happens on the site? * Plugin Author [Jeremy Herve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeherve/) * (@jeherve) * Jetpack Mechanic 🚀 * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/markdown-stopped-working/#post-8892492) * Yeah, that checkbox was hidden before; it’s a bug in Jetpack 4.7. We’ll get this fixed in the next Jetpack release! * [scottperezfox](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scottperezfox/) * (@scottperezfox) * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/markdown-stopped-working/#post-8895351) * I’m following this conversation with curiosity because I noticed the same problem. Existing posts still display fine when visited, but when editing/authoring new posts, Markdown doesn’t display properly. More upsetting is that posts have been converted from Markdown to HTML! As someone who writes in MD, this means I have to go through and edit the text. * Looking forward to the next update — perhaps an immediate x.x.1 bug fix? * UPDATE: the temporary remedy of turn-it-off-turn-it-back-on seems to work. - This reply was modified 9 years, 3 months ago by [scottperezfox](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scottperezfox/). * Plugin Author [Jeremy Herve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeherve/) * (@jeherve) * Jetpack Mechanic 🚀 * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/markdown-stopped-working/#post-8895670) * > Looking forward to the next update — perhaps an immediate x.x.1 bug fix? * Yes, that’s the plan. Jetpack 4.7.1 will be available in a few hours. * [scottperezfox](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scottperezfox/) * (@scottperezfox) * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/markdown-stopped-working/#post-8896081) * Thanks for the update [@jeherve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeherve/) * Plugin Author [Jeremy Herve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeherve/) * (@jeherve) * Jetpack Mechanic 🚀 * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/markdown-stopped-working/#post-8896153) * Coming back to this; Jetpack 4.7.1 will be delayed a bit, as we found another issue we’d like to fix. * Until then, going to Settings > Writing and enabling the Markdown option should help. Another alternative is to deactivate and reactivate the module. * [tsudo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tsudohnimh/) * (@tsudohnimh) * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/markdown-stopped-working/#post-8905451) * Thank you so Jeremy, finding this setting fixed my issues as well. Much appreciated. * [zoecorkhill](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zoecorkhill/) * (@zoecorkhill) * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/markdown-stopped-working/#post-8906958) * I’m having issues with this as well, I’ve tried deactivating and re-enabling the module, as well as checking the new tick box, and it still isn’t working, so I am having to convert my current posts in progress to html for now. * All of the previous posts using markdown seem to have been converted to html which is a problem as I have been using the {.rel-nofollow} attribute following links, and this hasn’t been converted properly. So now I have to search for this and manually change them all. * [zoecorkhill](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zoecorkhill/) * (@zoecorkhill) * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/markdown-stopped-working/#post-8906996) * Ignore me, it seems to have sorted itself out now! 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