Why Markdown in WordPress is Awesome

As bloggers, or even better, as writers, we know how important it is to have a hierarchy to your content so our viewers can organize what is important and what is tertiary. In some instances we take it upon ourselves to give our viewer a little help by adding emphasis to some items in our posts, whether by calling them out by using block quotes, adding bulleted or numberor adding a bold or italic type face for content significance. And to be honest, writing your post then adding stylization can take as long as it takes writing your copy.

This is where WordPress Markdown Support comes into play.

WordPress Markdown lets you compose posts and comments with links, lists, and other styles using regular characters and punctuation marks. Markdown is used by writers and bloggers who want a quick and easy way to style their text, without having to take their hands…