The plugin is essentially Gutenberg and so provides the same support for Markdown.
OK, thank you! I’ll look into seeing if we’ve disabled this somehow in the wordpress.org support forums.
The support forums seem to support the same Markdown as expected. Is there something in particular that isn’t working?
When I test, such as starting a paragraph with # to convert to heading or **text** for bold it doesn’t seem to convert to the appropriate block (such as in this forum thread). When I do the same in the editor in WordPress it automatically does a conversion when I type.
Perhaps when I save it’ll do a conversion for me, but I haven’t seen it happen automatically yet. Are you able to paste markdown in the forums?
Headings aren’t available in the support forums, so they won’t be available from Markdown either. If the forums add support for headings then the # will work.
The **bold** syntax does not seem supported by core Gutenberg.
Is it possible you are using a markdown block such as the one provided by Jetpack, which includes additional markdown support?
I was only testing with the headings in core, but you’re right – it doesn’t seem like bolding in markdown or links are supported in core. Since headings aren’t supported in the forums, that makes sense why they don’t appear. So we’d need to install some sort of block plugin to support markdown to achieve this or wait core Gutenberg has full support.
Thanks for humoring me, John!
