Wordpress-seo: Add support for Jetpack's Markdown module

[tacoverdo]

_Result on frontpage with Markdown_

_Source code in Markdown in the text editor_

_Resulting analysis_

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_rabbit without Markdown markup (not bold)_

_Resulting analysis_

[jdevalk]

Doing some initial research.

You can detect whether Jetpack's Markdown module is enabled by checking the jetpack_active_modules option. It'll have an array value markdown if the module is enabled. If it is, markdown is always enabled for posts.

Marked looks like a pretty solid library in terms of performance. It also supports GitHub flavored markdown, which Jetpack supports too.

I don't know how to filter the content of the editor before we send it to the analysis in YoastSEO.js, @jcomack was digging into that for me.

[jdevalk]

As per @jcomack :

wp-seo-shortcode-plugin.js lines 21 and 57

That combination of registering with Pluggable.js and calling the registerModification function, should do the trick.

Seems like a simple plugin to me:

• load the Marked library when Markdown is enabled;
• register the modification;
• pass the content through Marked and return it;
• done.

We should include this on our side, as Jetpack has been kind enough to do similar stuff on their end too.

[stephlocke]

+1

[Zettt]

@omarreiss I see the tag for milestone 3.4, and for 3.5. How good are the chances this gets implemented in 3.5? I'm looking forward to the feature. Thank you.

[omarreiss]

@Zettt I would love to build this, but I simply don't have the resources at the moment, we'll try again for 3.7

[Pcosta88]

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[supernrm]

Still not working with markdown? ;(

[lukescammell]

@omarreiss would be great to get this working properly with Markdown 👍