For all you legal bloggers out there that prefer coding to clicking through WYSIWYG editors, Daring Fireball‘s Markdown is a user friendly syntax that allows you to quickly draft blogposts without using full HTML and without having to highlight and point and click to get all the formatting you want.
So instead of typing out:
<blockquote>"I'm a quote!"</blockquote>
All you have to do is type:
>"I'm a quote!"
No more typing out bullet point code or long “a href=” you can simply use asterisks and square and curved brackets.
Install it into your WordPress blog to give it a run. As an added bonus, if you use MarsEdit, it has a preview text filter for Markdown.
There are a few plugins to choose from, I’m using Michael Fortin’s PHP markdown.
Tags: markdown, plugins
