Much awaited and most requested markdown editor is released by jetpack team with release of jetpack 2.8 , jetpack is plugin with some cool stuffs of wordpress.com blog for self hosted blogs .
What is markdown ?
Markdown is a lightweight markup language, originally created by John Gruber with substantial contributions from Aaron Swartz, allowing people “to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, then convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML)”.
See post on jetpack page
if you used tumblr or ghost blogs they are already using markdown for posting . github use markdown for readme files so called github flavored markdown . stackoverflow is another website that use markdown .
links to get help on markdown :
Once you will start using markdown you will fall in love with simplicity and awesomeness of markdown editor .
what if I disable jetpack ?
well if you disable jetpack in future your posts will remain look same as now . you don’t have to worry about that .
whats missing ?
Live preview is missing now , we have to wait for jetpack team to release editor with live preview and uploads functionality like ghost blog support .
overall markdown is awesome you should give a shot .
