As 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”:http://textism.com/tools/textile/ for content intended for publication via the HTML. This is a matter of personal preference, many others use “Markdown”:http://daringfireball.net/projects/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”:http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/ syntax. jMarkdown, when activated, will convert the text into html for display purposes.
You can download jMarkdown “here”:http://s3.amazonaws.com/files.4results.biz/jMarkdown.zip. 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.
If you are looking for a Markdown Extra editor for Joomla (based on markItUp).
http://www.yoonique.net/index.php?option=com_zoo&task=item&item_id=21
Given the number of people reading about this plugin, I do intend to make an update before the end of the year.
Cheers,
I had trouble with using jMarkdown on Joomla 1.6 beta10. The installation went fine. However, when jMarkdown plugin, when enambeld, started to block editing of all Articles, Modules, Plugins, etc. – essentially all administrative actions. I was not able to even disable it via administrative menu. I disabled it in my Joomla database and things went normal again. I would appreciate any help.
It seems that some are using the plugin successfully, while others are having some problems. I am going to review/update the plugin before the end of the year.
Do you have any plans to update this component? The latest Markdown PHP class is newer than the jMarkdown extension.
Hi Nigel,
I am still having trouble with the markdown plugin for joomla. Can you help?
I know that this reply is ludicrously late. But for various reasons I am going to review the plugin before the end of the year.
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
Hi,
We able to show the Joomla commands with this plugin? For example {loadposition positionname}
Thanx.