Title: Markdown and Postie
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Markdown and Postie

 *  Resolved [Thomas Dalgaard](https://wordpress.org/support/users/coolfortheblind/)
 * (@coolfortheblind)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/markdown-and-postie/)
 * Hi!
    I’m using Markdown to format my posts and pages inside WordPress. I’ve installed
   WP-Markdown so it converts it by default, but it doesn’t work when I send a mail
   via Postie. Can I do anything for getting this to work? Thanks in advance
 * Best regards
    Thomas
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/postie/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/postie/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Wayne Allen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wayneallen-1/)
 * (@wayneallen-1)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/markdown-and-postie/#post-5675920)
 * Please send a sample email to [test@postieplugin.com](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/markdown-and-postie/test@postieplugin.com?output_format=md)
   and leave a note here.
 *  Thread Starter [Thomas Dalgaard](https://wordpress.org/support/users/coolfortheblind/)
 * (@coolfortheblind)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/markdown-and-postie/#post-5675925)
 * Hi!
 * I’ve now send a test sample to you.
    Thanks for a quick reply. I have just tested
   recently again, if I publish from WordPress it works as I thought, but if it 
   is submited via Postie the Markdown source is shown instead regardless of the
   format is set to HTML or plain text. I believe I must set the format to plain
   text for getting the right results…? Best regards Thomas
 *  Plugin Author [Wayne Allen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wayneallen-1/)
 * (@wayneallen-1)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/markdown-and-postie/#post-5675950)
 * I installed WP-Markdown 1.5.1 (current version) with Postie configured with plain
   text.
 * Here is the raw email:
 *     ```
       #Hello
   
       ##Thisis a test
   
       I wrote this in **Markdown**
       Thanks
       Best regards
       [Thomas](http://www.testing.com)
       ```
   
 * In the editor I see
 *     ```
       # Hello
   
       ## Thisis a test
   
       I wrote this in **Markdown** Thanks Best regards <a href="[http://www.testing.com">Thomas][1]</a>
   
        [1]: http://www.testing.com)
       ```
   
 * When I view the post I see:
    [http://screencast.com/t/dB6MhPH8J74](http://screencast.com/t/dB6MhPH8J74)
 * If I set “Automatically convert urls to links” to “No” it looks perfect.
 *  Thread Starter [Thomas Dalgaard](https://wordpress.org/support/users/coolfortheblind/)
 * (@coolfortheblind)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/markdown-and-postie/#post-5675956)
 * Hi!
 * That’s interesting. Have you enabled Markdown in settings, writing?
    I just pasted
   the sample-mail into a post and published it on my testblog. The result is correct,
   if I go this way, but I would like to see the Markdown converted to HTML, as 
   if I used the editor. I don’t know how much you know about Markdown but I just
   made a heading and a link in the test sample… And made some text bolt. The post
   is here: [http://wp.me/p5whUn-r](http://wp.me/p5whUn-r) I don’t know if I have
   configured something wrong inside Postie’s options so it doesn’t handle the Markdown
   syntax correctly.
 * Best regards
    Thomas
 *  Plugin Author [Wayne Allen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wayneallen-1/)
 * (@wayneallen-1)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/markdown-and-postie/#post-5675958)
 * I’m not sure what you are asking for. If you send an email using markdown syntax
   Postie will publish it and WP-Markdown will render it. You will see the markdown
   in the editor just as if you had manually created it.
 *  Thread Starter [Thomas Dalgaard](https://wordpress.org/support/users/coolfortheblind/)
 * (@coolfortheblind)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/markdown-and-postie/#post-5675961)
 * I just did a few more tests and noticed the following:
    Yes, Postie can handle
   Markdown, now the link was correct. But lines and headings fail, and I can not
   figure out what I’ve done wrong. The only thing I can see makes another issue
   is that if I send a mail to Postie with Markdown syntax it fails. But that might
   be caused by my phone and not by Postie… Can I do anything to optimize Postie
   when using plain text? I specially need that newlines will be shown correctly.
   If I run a debug from my admin panel everything looks perfect, as I expected,
   because mails are comming through as we both know, but it is in the convertion
   something is wrong. Do you think it might be better for me to use the Jetpack
   Markdown module instead of the WP-markdown in conjunction with Postie?
 *  Plugin Author [Wayne Allen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wayneallen-1/)
 * (@wayneallen-1)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/markdown-and-postie/#post-5675962)
 * There are a couple of settings related to newlines. Look through them and test
   the combinations until you find a setting that works.
 *  Thread Starter [Thomas Dalgaard](https://wordpress.org/support/users/coolfortheblind/)
 * (@coolfortheblind)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/markdown-and-postie/#post-5675982)
 * Now I’ve done a few more tests again, and stille something weird is going on,
   when the post isn’t done via the editor itself.
    The subject of the message (
   that normally works as the title of the post) is not used anymore. Instead Postie
   inserts it’s own title… Or in some cases it replaces the title with the first
   word from the message body. I find the process very inconsistent, since I’ve 
   only managed to get most of the layout correct in ONE post earlier. Here is my
   description of the setup I use: Mail clients: Apple Mail (In Mac OS X 10.10) 
   Mail on an iPhone 5C running IOS 8.1.2 (at the time of writing the latest official
   release) I type the Markdown into the message body, and have tried to select 
   the format s plain text in OS 10 Mail, but it doesn’t seem to make anything work
   different. When I send a mail: From the Mac: The format of the post is not translated
   correctly. Headings and links may be showing up correctly, but often the heading
   is replaced by a heading level 1 instead of a heading on level 3. The title of
   the post is removed and replaced with something like the first word of my post(
   the message body) or Postie’s own suggestion to a blank subject line.
 * From IOS:
    When sending a mail from IOS the Markdown is not converted to HTML
   at all. What am I doing wrong in this setup? Postie works like a charme on my
   other blog, and I was planning to write in Markdown because it is (for me) easier
   to write Markdown rather than HTML on a smartphone. 🙂
 *  Plugin Author [Wayne Allen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wayneallen-1/)
 * (@wayneallen-1)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/markdown-and-postie/#post-5676124)
 * Please send an example from each of the mail clients to [test@postieplugin.com](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/markdown-and-postie/test@postieplugin.com?output_format=md)
   so I can see what is happening.
 *  [lapagalia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lapagalia/)
 * (@lapagalia)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/markdown-and-postie/#post-5676215)
 * Is resolved the issue? I use Postie and Jetpack’s Markdown and images are not
   rendered. I get the following post:
 * [http://www.neatorama.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/bugs-bunnyreclining-499×367.jpg”](http://www.neatorama.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/bugs-bunnyreclining-499×367.jpg”)
   alt=”” />
 * with an empty image at the first.
 * Lapagalia
 *  Plugin Author [Wayne Allen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wayneallen-1/)
 * (@wayneallen-1)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/markdown-and-postie/#post-5676217)
 * [@lapagalia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lapagalia/) you may want to 
   try changing “Automatically convert urls to links” to “No”
 *  [lapagalia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lapagalia/)
 * (@lapagalia)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/markdown-and-postie/#post-5676219)
 * Fine! It works. A lot of thanks.

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