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What is Markdown? How to Use Markdown in WordPress?

Recently one of our users asked us what is Markdown? They heard about it from a friend who used Ghost blogging platform. Markdown is a simple markup language that converts plain text into HTML. Think of it as a much simpler text editor. In this article, we will show you how to use Markdown in WordPress. What is Markdown? Markdown is a markup language which converts plain text into HTML code. It allows users to use special characters like asterisk, number sign, underscore and dashes in Markdown syntax instead of HTML. This Markdown Syntax is then automatically converted into HTML. For example: **This is bold text** The above text will be converted by Markdown into: <strong>This is bold text</strong> Markdown provides an efficient way …

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What is Markdown? How to Use Markdown in WordPress?

WordPress 4.0 Beta 1 preview

WordPress announced its latest version of the popular CMS yesterday with the release of WordPress 4.0 Beta 1. Let’s take a look into the new features that it has highlighted. Previews of embedding via URLs This works well in the beta version, the guys at WordPress suggest adding the embed URL on a new line, in 3.9.1 this just leaves a link in the editor whereas in 4.0 this shows the video. This is instantaneous and a flick to the code view of the editor still shows the link URL. You can even watch the video from within the editor. Below we have 4.0 Beta 1 on the left and 3.9.1 on the right. Media library You now have the option to have the media gallery in a grid view as well as …

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WordPress 4.0 Beta 1 preview

Why do I love Custom CSS module in Jetpack?

Made by Automattic, Jetpack is one of the most popular plugin for WordPress. It’s not only used on WordPress.com but also on millions of hosted WordPress.org blogs. I did use it when it was first born a long time ago and wasn’t too impressed. But now it has changed a lot and what it brings to users is really powerful. I’m not going to talk everything about Jetpack (you can read a very informative blog post here). I will talk about Custom CSS module in Jetpack, which I’ve just experienced and really love it! 0. What is Custom CSS feature? If you customize a website for clients, there’re occasionally situations that you have to fix CSS or change a small bits …

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Why do I love Custom CSS module in Jetpack?

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