Wp-calypso: Editor: Add Markdown support

[kriskarkoski]

The Calypso Editor supports formatting shortcuts from WordPress.com 4.3, but does not currently support the Markdown format that is available from the WP Admin editor on WordPress.com.

[lamosty]

Agree. This was the first bigger issue I noticed with Calypso.

[sirbrillig]

You can actually use Markdown in Calypso if you enable it in wp-admin first. The editor would just need to incorporate a "enable Markdown" option. (Of course, that may be misleading since the Markdown option (currently) applies site-wide and not just for the current page.)

[notesbytom]

Hello @sirbrillig - when testing Calypso a month ago, the markdown support seemed to convert everything to shortcodes and html when saving a new edit. Returning to edit a blog post in the future would then be missing all of the original markdown used to create the post. Has this changed to keep the markdown with the blog-post text for future edits? I had "enable Markdown" selected in wp-admin during that test. I've been using only wp-admin since Calypso released so that my markdown is preserved.

[sirbrillig]

@notesbytom hey, you're right! I hadn't tried going back in and editing the posts again. That's another thing that needs to be fixed.

[electronicsguy]

@sirbrillig Any update on this? I tried turning ON markdown within wp-admin today. I went to one of my existing posts and tried to use markdown instead of <code> </code> tags, but it doesn't work. I tried with the triple-backticks as well as triple-tilde.

[sirbrillig]

@codebykat, do you know if anything like this is in the works?

[codebykat]

I'd like to get it done but other things are more on fire at the moment... if someone can submit a PR I would be happy to review. Otherwise we'll try to get to it but can't promise when. Please do log votes here as that helps us prioritize new features. :)

[lancewillett]

I think we should remove support for Markdown in Calypso — it's a power-user feature, and not something the majority of bloggers or site owners would ever know or care about. Let's focus instead of a delightful and engaging experience in the visual editor.

There are many recent improvements (from core WP wp-admin editor as well) that allow for using typical Markdown syntax in the visual editor. Try typing ` and then again after a word. Boom. Code formatting. Same with asterisk for bold.

Let's work on the editing experience for everyone and to me that doesn't include Markdown.

[lancewillett]

Moving discussion to https://github.com/Automattic/wp-calypso/issues/11510

[wilx]

@lancewillett commented on 21. 2. 2017 16:27 SEČ:

I think we should remove support for Markdown in Calypso — it's a power-user feature, and not something the majority of bloggers or site owners would ever know or care about. Let's focus instead of a delightful and engaging experience in the visual editor.

There are many recent improvements (from core WP wp-admin editor as well) that allow for using typical Markdown syntax in the visual editor. Try typing ` and then again after a word. Boom. Code formatting. Same with asterisk for bold.

Let's work on the editing experience for _everyone_ and to me that doesn't include Markdown.

Are you really giving :thumbsup: to your own post for real?

[lancewillett]

Hahaha. Yes. Good eye. :)