I’ve been using Markdown for WordPress and bbPress since the creation of this website, September 2009. It replaces the default visual and html editors with a simple, syntax-based editor. After half a year of using this plugin, problems occurred.
The disadvantage of this plugin is that one is forced to use Markdown. And because of that, there are many conflicts with some other plugins especially when html and short-tags involve. And once the Markdown plugin is disabled, all posted articles will turn into markdown code. It seems like this plugin didn’t even translate Markdown syntax into HTML before publishing, instead HTML is rendered real-time when being viewd.
In the end I had to choose between using Markdown (with restricted freedom), or the original Visual & HTML editor. Despite of the extra efforts, I chose the original editor. So I can be free from the architectural flaw of this plugin.
If you are the one who use this plugin, think twice. It might ruin all your posts someday if the website is modified.
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So true. Honesty and everyitnhg recognized.