Title: Markdown support?
Last modified: February 17, 2023

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# Markdown support?

 *  Resolved [Ben Greeley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bengreeley/)
 * (@bengreeley)
 * [3 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/markdown-support-4/)
 * Regarding this[ Meta Trac ticket](https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/696),
   would it be possible to be able to support markdown with Blocks Everywhere, similar
   to the default way that Gutenberg supports markdown?
 * If you start typing markdown in Gutenberg, it automatically converts to blocks,
   and would be nice to support that with this plugin as well, if possible. Thank
   you!

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 *  Plugin Author [John Godley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnny5/)
 * (@johnny5)
 * [3 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/markdown-support-4/#post-16479497)
 * The plugin is essentially Gutenberg and so provides the same support for Markdown.
 *  Thread Starter [Ben Greeley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bengreeley/)
 * (@bengreeley)
 * [3 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/markdown-support-4/#post-16480191)
 * OK, thank you! I’ll look into seeing if we’ve disabled this somehow in the wordpress.
   org support forums.
 *  Plugin Author [John Godley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnny5/)
 * (@johnny5)
 * [3 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/markdown-support-4/#post-16480192)
 * The support forums seem to support the same Markdown as expected. Is there something
   in particular that isn’t working?
 *  Thread Starter [Ben Greeley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bengreeley/)
 * (@bengreeley)
 * [3 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/markdown-support-4/#post-16480208)
 * When I test, such as starting a paragraph with `#` to convert to heading or `**
   text**` for bold it doesn’t seem to convert to the appropriate block (such as
   in this forum thread). When I do the same in the editor in WordPress it automatically
   does a conversion when I type.
 * Perhaps when I save it’ll do a conversion for me, but I haven’t seen it happen
   automatically yet. Are you able to paste markdown in the forums?
 *  Plugin Author [John Godley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnny5/)
 * (@johnny5)
 * [3 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/markdown-support-4/#post-16480216)
 * Headings aren’t available in the support forums, so they won’t be available from
   Markdown either. If the forums add support for headings then the `#` will work.
 * The **bold** syntax does not seem supported by core Gutenberg.
 *  Plugin Author [John Godley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnny5/)
 * (@johnny5)
 * [3 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/markdown-support-4/#post-16480223)
 * Is it possible you are using a markdown block such as the one provided by Jetpack,
   which includes additional markdown support?
 *  Thread Starter [Ben Greeley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bengreeley/)
 * (@bengreeley)
 * [3 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/markdown-support-4/#post-16480264)
 * I was only testing with the headings in core, but you’re right – it doesn’t seem
   like bolding in markdown or links are supported in core. Since headings aren’t
   supported in the forums, that makes sense why they don’t appear. So we’d need
   to install some sort of block plugin to support markdown to achieve this or wait
   core Gutenberg has full support.
 * Thanks for humoring me, John!

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