Podcast Episode

179 – Quickly Format Your Posts Using Markdown

Announcements

  • Automattic Raise $160 Million Dollars and is valued at $1.16 Billion

Tools / Plugins

  • Deckset is a great app for Mac OSX to create brilliant presentations with Markdown.
  • WordCamp North Canton Slides

Quickly Format Your Posts Using Markdown

  • What is Markdown?
    • Markdown lets you compose posts and comments with links, lists, and other styles using regular characters and punctuation marks. Markdown is used by writers and bloggers who want a quick and easy way to write rich text, without having to take their hands off the keyboard, and without learning a lot of complicated codes and shortcuts.
  • Who is Markdown For?
    • Bloggers who want to write and format there posts more quickly and efficiently.
  • WordPress.com
    • Built-in
    • Turn it on in the Settings -> Writing area
  • WordPress.org
  • Free Webinar Replay
    • Watch the webinar replay on Markdown
    • DanielJLewis Reply

      I decided I like JetPack’s Markdown module much more than WP Markdown. JetPack allows the markdown to be written in either the visual or text editors, and it doesn’t mess up my editing page by removing those tabs.

      May 22, 2014
    • dhartzler10 Reply

      DanielJLewis Good to know. Thanks Daniel!

      May 24, 2014

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