Title: Markdown
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Markdown

 *  Anonymous
 * [22 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/markdown/)
 * With the exception of the most basic markdown syntax (i.e., *emphasis*), the 
   Markdown plugin doesn’t seem to be working at all. I’m using WP 1.2.

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 *  [Mary Linville](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sunshine/)
 * (@sunshine)
 * [22 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/markdown/#post-52065)
 * [Markdown](http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/) is a Perl program.
    
   Unless you’re referring to [Textile](http://wiki.wordpress.org/index.php/Textile%20Plugins)
   or the built-in [Texturize](http://wiki.wordpress.org/index.php/Features)😕 “
   WordPress uses the Texturize engine to intelligently convert plain ASCII into
   typographically correct XHTML entities. This includes quotes, apostrophes, ellipses,
   em and en dashes, multiplication symbols, and ampersands.”
 *  [marky](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marky/)
 * (@marky)
 * [22 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/markdown/#post-52080)
 * No, it’s definitely Markdown (either that or I’m imaginging things ;-). It’s 
   been converted to PHP, made into a WP plugin, and is included with WP 1.2. But
   it’s not working; not for me, anyway. Has anyone got it to perform as expected?
 *  [marky](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marky/)
 * (@marky)
 * [22 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/markdown/#post-52602)
 * I hate to bump this, but does anyone have some information on this issue? That
   is–has anyone been successfully using the Markdown plugin, or have I configured
   something incorrectly?
 *  Thread Starter Anonymous
 * [22 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/markdown/#post-52606)
 * Markdown works fine* for me in 1.2 beta from April 29; I’ll upgrade to RC1 in
   a minute and see if it breaks.
    (* I tested bold, italic, links, blockquote, 
   unordered list, and a bunch of headings, and they worked. The code block didn’t,
   but I probably didn’t get the syntax right.) Only problem is that trackbacks 
   sent from Markdown posts are sending the raw text, with line breaks as “rn”.
 *  [Mary Linville](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sunshine/)
 * (@sunshine)
 * [22 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/markdown/#post-52607)
 * Ah, okay, sorry. 🙂
 *  Thread Starter Anonymous
 * [22 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/markdown/#post-52608)
 * Me again, Markdown is working fine in 1.2RC1, and the rn thing is fixed. Joy!
   🙂
 *  [Mary Linville](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sunshine/)
 * (@sunshine)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/markdown/#post-52718)
 * Mm, now I can join in the fun. 😉
    When I try and post PHP code (using the pre-
   code format — indenting at least 4 from the main text and using a semi-colon 
   at the end of the prev. paragraph), it keeps adding in a space between the opening
   < and the ?. The code does otherwise indent properly, so this is just a minor
   annoyance. 🙂 And yes, I have both Textiles off.
 *  [mikelu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikelu/)
 * (@mikelu)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/markdown/#post-52721)
 * You can add a priority tag in `add_filter('the_content', 'Markdown', 6)` so that
   markdown will be used prior to wptexturize.
    I think most of the problems were
   caused by wptexturize() translating characters that were to be used in markdown().
 *  [Zarniwoop](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zarniwoop/)
 * (@zarniwoop)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/markdown/#post-52722)
 * Thx,
    the priority-trick helped me to get it to work within normal parameters.
   Why doesn’t the plugin have this by default?
 *  [Mary Linville](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sunshine/)
 * (@sunshine)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/markdown/#post-52726)
 * I tried that (a 6) but it caused my smilies to stop working?

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