Title: Doesn’t preserve markdown syntax
Last modified: November 13, 2018

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# Doesn’t preserve markdown syntax

 *  [dvaid](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dvaid/)
 * (@dvaid)
 * [7 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/doesnt-preserve-markdown-syntax/)
 * I already had enabled markdown via Jetpack and was using that for editing posts.
   I thought I’d try this plugin for its side-by-side live preview feature. Turns
   out, this plugin took that nice markdown I had previously and converted everything
   to HTML format. That’s certainly not what a markdown editor plugin should do!
   It defeats the whole purpose of using markdown in the first place.

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 *  [Sjeiti](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sjeiti/)
 * (@sjeiti)
 * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/doesnt-preserve-markdown-syntax/#post-11023888)
 * That’s funny because I came here to complain about the opposite.
 * While writing a post with this plugin installed works perfectly it does not seem
   to update the original contents.
 * Another plugin (Yoast SEO) fails their ‘readability analysis’ because the original
   post is markdown.
 * But that’s no reason to only give one star! Who is to decide how a markdown plugin
   should or should not work? There are good arguments for both options. Leaving
   content in markdown format in db slows down serving pages for instance.
 * So maybe there should be a settings page with toggle option somewhere.

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