What is Markdown?

Markdown is widely used across the web. It’s the cornerstone of quick, simple and safe text formatting.
In essence, Markdown is a lightweight markup language with plain text formatting syntax. It is designed so that it can be converted to HTML and many other formats using a tool by the same name. Markdown is often used to format readme files, for writing messages in online discussion forums, and to create rich text using a plain text editor.

Where Can I Use It?

It can be used in both Posts and Comments throughout PeepSo.
There are settings where you can allow Markdown in Posts and / or Comments.
Navigate to WP Admin -> PeepSo -> Configuration -> Markdown and flip the switches. There’s also a quick cheat sheet on available Markdown formatting.

Markdown can be used in PeepSo profile fields for Text Field type only, you just need to change the Appearance > Display setting to MarkDown formatted.

Markdown in Group description

Markdown can also be used in PeepSo Group, just switch ON Enable in group descriptions setting and you can use markdown syntax on your group description

Allow Headers

When you switch this setting ON this will allow syntax generating <h> tags for markdown headers

Use regular linebreaks

This will replace the default MarkDown <p> tag rendering with <br> tags when you switch this setting ON

The Available Ways To Format Text:

• BOLD: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Duis feugiat tortor risus, vitae volutpat lacus volutpat a. Sed vitae sapien augue. Curabitur posuere nec felis eu pretium. by using: **DoubleAsterisks**
• Italic: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Duis feugiat tortor risus, vitae volutpat lacus volutpat a. Sed vitae sapien augue. Curabitur posuere nec felis eu pretium. by using:*SingleAsterisk*
• Strikeout: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Duis feugiat tortor risus, vitae volutpat lacus volutpat a. Sed vitae sapien augue. Curabitur posuere nec felis eu pretium. by using:~~DoubleTilde~~

The above text formatting styles can be combined too. You can do what you want.

Lists

Markdown can also create ordered lists. Simply write a number and a dot / full stop, like this: 1. Milk 2. Bread 3. Butter 4. Chese and it will turn it int to:

1. Milk
2. Bread
3. Butter
4. Cheese

You can also create unordered lists. Similarly to ordered lists you can just put a dash or an asterisk in front of a word. Like: – / *. Lists will then be created.

• Milk
• Bread
• Butter
• Cheese

Code

You can also include inline code by putting `in front of a line of code and closing with the same symbol`.

Header

You can create headers by putting # following by space and your header text, put more # to create different headers, eg: ## for H2, ### for H3

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