Joomla Markdown Extension
ByAs a result of a request from a reader of this blog, I have prepared a new Joomla extension which I have christened “jMarkdown” to partner with jTextile. Why would I do this? Well I remain absolutely convinced that even the best of the WYSIWYG editors for blogs and CMS are basically useless when it comes to editing text or restyling content. Wherever possible I use Textile markup for content intended for publication via the HTML. This is a matter of personal preference, many others use Markdown. Elsewhere in this blog you’ll find jTextile, a Joomla 1.5 extension which supports the textile syntax
Anyway, jMarkdown allows you to prepare articles for Joomla 1.0 using the Markdown syntax. jMarkdown, when activated, will convert the text into html for display purposes.
You can download jMarkdown here. This is a prerelease version and does not include any documentation. Just install the extension and activate the plugin in your Joomla 1.5 site.
As usual feel free to comment or ask questions here.
Tags: joomla, markdown, markup, textile, wysiwyg editors
2 Comments
July 5th, 2009 at 4:09 am
Hi,
We able to show the Joomla commands with this plugin? For example {loadposition positionname}
Thanx.
August 13th, 2009 at 3:01 pm
Hi,
Thanks for the information,just found this post my technorati news feed section! I was searching for this since past 3 months and i am glad to see it here. Thanking you much
Martin