Markdown support
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I’m trying to write a new post in Markdown and it’s accepting the text as input without processing it. I’ve followed the instructions here https://en.support.wordpress.com/markdown/ but it’s not working.
I did notice that I get the WYSIWYG/HTML editor instead of the plain-text editor that’s screen-shotted on that page.
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Hi there,
What editor are you using to create your post? The one at My Site ->Blog Posts ->Add, or the one in WP-Admin?
Can you please post the content with markdown you’re trying to add here so I can check it?
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I’m well-versed in markdown, and I’m confident in the content. I’d prefer not to put the entire post here.
I’ve been using https://wordpress.com/post/codingforsmarties.wordpress.com (go to wordpress.com while logged in and click the “Write” button in the top right.
I just tried the one at https://codingforsmarties.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post-new.php, but it’s not working either. (Is this the admin one you mentioned?)
Thanks.
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Okay, so you’re using the My Sites editor. When you’re composing your post, is the Visual or the HTML tab focused? Markdown should be added in the visual tab, not the HTML one.
Does the markdown render correctly if your preview/publish the post? In other words, is it just in the editor the markdown doesn’t render, or in the editor and on the site itself?
I’m well-versed in markdown, and I’m confident in the content. I’d prefer not to put the entire post here.
I’m not saying you don’t know how Markdown works. I’m asking for the content so I can test what is going wrong. If you’re not willing to provide me with the information I need to troubleshoot this, I can’t help you.
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The problem isn’t the content.
It’s the editor. Apparently, there should be a Markdown tab. I don’t have one. I only have “Visual” and “HTML”.
I took screen shots of a new editor page and my settings, but I don’t see a way to upload them here.
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There is no markdown tab. Visual and HTML is all there is. If you’re speaking of the image in https://en.support.wordpress.com/markdown/#writing-with-markdown, that is not a screen shot of the editor, but just a comparison of what Markdown content in the editor looks vs the actual published post.
You can upload screen shots to your media library at My Site ->Media, then I can view it there.
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So, I think the issue is switching between the two tabs.
If I paste the markdown into the Visual tab, I get the markdown in the preview. But if I paste markdown in the HTML tab, I get it rendered correctly in the preview, but *not* in the Visual tab.
This was the point of confusion. I expect the Visual tab would render it correctly.
Also, it’s not clear (read: not stated at all) on the support site that you have to enter the markdown on the HTML tab.
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Also, it’s not clear (read: not stated at all) on the support site that you have to enter the markdown on the HTML tab.
You shouldn’t. The HTML tab is if you want to write your content in actual HTML code.
Markdown content should be written in the Visual tab instead.
Some markdown will convert immediately, and will then display as HTML code when you view it in the HTML tab, while other markdown will only render in the published post.
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