Title: [Plugin: Markdown for WordPress and bbPress] Saving comments in markdown format
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: Markdown for WordPress and bbPress] Saving comments in markdown format

 *  [forumcivico](https://wordpress.org/support/users/forumcivico/)
 * (@forumcivico)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-markdown-for-wordpress-and-bbpress-saving-comments-in-markdown-format/)
 * I love markdown, and I have the WordPress markdown-for-wordpress-and-bbpress 
   parsing markdown in my posts and comments.
 * However, I’ve noticed that WordPress saves the comments rendered in html format.
   This makes it more difficult to go back and edit comments.
 * Maybe it’s not builtin to wordpress. Comments normally not saved with any markup
   without the markdown plugin. Could be a markdown-for-wordpress-and-bbpress “feature”/
   accident?
 * **Partial Hack:**
 * It may also be theme-dependent.
 * In wp-content/plugins/markdown-for-wordpress-and-bbpress/markdown.php comment
   out the pre_comment_content markdown filter
 *     ```
       if (MARKDOWN_WP_COMMENTS) {
           remove_filter('comment_text', 'wpautop', 30);
           remove_filter('comment_text', 'make_clickable');
           #HACK don't save comments rendered in HTML
           #add_filter('pre_comment_content', 'Markdown', 6);
           add_filter('pre_comment_content', 'mdwp_hide_tags', 8);
           add_filter('pre_comment_content', 'mdwp_show_tags', 12);
           add_filter('get_comment_text',    'Markdown', 6);
           add_filter('get_comment_excerpt', 'Markdown', 6);
           add_filter('get_comment_excerpt', 'mdwp_strip_p', 7);
       ```
   
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/markdown-for-wordpress-and-bbpress/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/markdown-for-wordpress-and-bbpress/)

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 *  [Li-An](https://wordpress.org/support/users/li-an/)
 * (@li-an)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-markdown-for-wordpress-and-bbpress-saving-comments-in-markdown-format/#post-1987257)
 * OK, thanks for the tip… but I decided to use Markdown on Save extended for faster
   html rendering. So, as you noticed, there is no way for the moment to get comments
   in Markdown.
 *  [drsim](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drsim/)
 * (@drsim)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-markdown-for-wordpress-and-bbpress-saving-comments-in-markdown-format/#post-1987258)
 * Any way i can convert the wordpress comments to bbpress topics?

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 * Last reply from: [drsim](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drsim/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-markdown-for-wordpress-and-bbpress-saving-comments-in-markdown-format/#post-1987258)
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