Title: WordPress.org Readme format
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# WordPress.org Readme format

 *  [Pat Hawks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pathawks/)
 * (@pathawks)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpressorg-readme-format/)
 * What flavor of Markdown does the WordPress plugin repository use to parse Readme
   files?
 * I’m almost certain this isn’t the best place to ask this question, but I cannot
   find any information anywhere. The _only_ documentation I can find at all concerning
   the Readme files is, in fact, just [an example Readme](http://wordpress.org/plugins/about/readme.txt)
   file.
 * It is all pretty standard Markdown except for the section headings, which are
   more like wiki markup.
 * I would like to be able to parse these files my self, so I was just curious how
   it all gets put together on the backend.

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