WordPress 4.1 support Markdown syntax or I’ve to install a Plugin?
wordpress do not support markdown, you need a plugin for that. Although there are many similarities, in general wordpress.com != wordpress
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Markdown everywhere?
No, and I’m not aware of any plans to introduce it into WordPress core. That functionality has been added by WordPress.com. There are numerous plug-ins which add this feature, to name but a few: WP Markdown (I authored this) Markdown on Save JetPack
how to show underscores symbol in markdown?
You just escape it with a backslash: my\_stock\_ticker is what you type to get my_stock_ticker The syntax seems to work for all markdown parsers. However, php markdown parsers use the numeric character reference _ instead of the actual character in it’s output.
Create two blank lines in Markdown
If your Markdown compiler supports HTML, you can add <br/><br/> in the Markdown source.
Tables in Markdown (in Jupyter)
The first row of the table defines the headers, then the next row defines the alignment of each column. You duplicated the alignment at the top of the table and where it’s actually supposed to go. The right Markdown should simply be what you have in your syntax, but remove the first row: The — in between … Read more
Superscript in markdown (Github flavored)?
Use the <sup></sup>tag (<sub></sub> is the equivalent for subscripts). See this gist for an example.
How do I center an image in the README.md file on GitHub?
I’ve been looking at the Markdown syntax used in GitHub […], I can’t figure out how to center an image TL;DR No, you can’t by only relying on Markdown syntax. Markdown doesn’t care about positioning. Note: Some Markdown processors support inclusion of HTML (as rightfully pointed out by @waldyr.ar), and in the GitHub case you … Read more
How to add new line in Markdown presentation?
See the original markdown specification (bold mine): The implication of the “one or more consecutive lines of text” rule is that Markdown supports “hard-wrapped” text paragraphs. This differs significantly from most other text-to-HTML formatters (including Movable Type’s “Convert Line Breaks” option) which translate every line break character in a paragraph into a <br /> tag. When you do want … Read more
How to apply color in Markdown?
TL;DR Markdown doesn’t support color but you can inline HTML inside Markdown, e.g.: Longer answer As the original/official syntax rules state (emphasis added): Markdown’s syntax is intended for one purpose: to be used as a format for writing for the web. Markdown is not a replacement for HTML, or even close to it. Its syntax is very … Read more
Markdown vs markup – are they related?
Markup is a generic term for a language that describes a document’s formatting Markdown is a specific markup library: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/These days the term is more commonly used to refer to markup languages that mimic the style of the library. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown