New Markdown support returns HTML formatted code to API clients

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  sweatertest · Member · Nov 20, 2013 at 2:10 am

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  The new Markdown support is great! One problem I noticed however pertains to the content as returned to XMLRPC API clients (including the official WordPress clients). The Markdown content appears to be converted to HTML for API clients instead of being left in original Markdown format. Is this something you would consider fixing? It would be best to have feature parity between the web interface and for API clients. Currently a post published in Markdown continues to be editable in Markdown through the web interface, but editing it from an API client forces it to be converted to HTML (or else laboriously reformatted as Markdown in the client before resubmitting.

  To see this easily just try opening any Markdown published post from the WordPress iPhone app.

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  kraftbj · Staff · Nov 21, 2013 at 10:24 pm

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  Howdy,

  Just wanted to drop a quick note to say that I believe one of our developers reached out to you in response to the comment on the WordPress.com News blog about this.

  They’re looking into the best way to enable Markdown support across all of the pieces of the ecosystem.

  Thanks!

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  sweatertest · Member · Nov 21, 2013 at 10:59 pm

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  Hi kraftbj – thanks for following up! Yes, I was contacted by one of your developers and this conversation is moving in the right direction. Thanks!

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  kraftbj · Staff · Nov 21, 2013 at 11:19 pm

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  Anytime. Thanks too for reaching out. Folks nudging us can go a long way in figuring out what we tackle next!