Details on EE 2.7.0 Markdown Plugin and field format

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Looking at the Changelogs for EE 2.7.0 I see there is now:

Added Markdown plugin and field formatting option

…but I don't see any details in the documentation. Is there any information available on the new plug-in and how it works?

Stephen Callender · Accepted Answer · 2013-08-30 05:53:34Z

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From the plugin file in EE 2.7:

This plugin parses text using Markdown and Smartypants. To use this plugin wrap any text in this tag pair:

{exp:markdown}
Text to be **parsed**.
{/exp:markdown}

There are two parameters you can set:

encode_ee_tags - ('yes'/'no') defaults to 'yes', when set to 'no' allows EE code to be rendered
smartypants - ('yes'/'no') defaults to 'yes', when set to 'no' stops SmartyPants from running which leaves your quotes and hyphens alone

Also, PHP Markdown is being used, so anything you see here -- http://michelf.ca/projects/php-markdown/extra/ -- is available. Good for adding classes and ids, etc.

answered Aug 30, 2013 at 5:53

Stephen Callender

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Stephen, you can set the format of field as Markdown, too, and to not use the exp:markdown.
– Sobral
Aug 30, 2013 at 13:01
Oh yeah, that's right, I remember reading that in the blog post. Thanks.
– Stephen Callender
Aug 30, 2013 at 13:40
Thanks. What we really need is a way to allow our authors to write in Markdown and then use that to insert into EE when adding a new channel entry. Basically a streamlined workflow. The way we have to do it now is to write the MD and then export the XHTML and copy paste that into EE's channel entry field.
– Adam Christianson
Sep 25, 2013 at 16:57

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