Wordpress still, to an extent, rules the blogging world. Its longevity is testament to…something about it ;) However, it’s not my favourite platform in which to write a blog by a long way. It doesn’t support Markdown to the extent that I want. Yes, I’ve tried the plugins; no, they didn’t do what I needed.

I like to write all my content in a structured format - ideally Asciidoc, but I’ll settle for Markdown too. Here’s how I stayed [almost] sane whilst composing a blog in Markdown, reviewing it in Google Docs, and then publishing it in Wordpress in a non-lossy way.

I noticed in Ed Stevens’ blog posting here that some sourcecode he’d posted had certain lines highlighted. Wordpress provides the sourcecode tag for marking up sourcecode in blog posts. For example: cd /some/random/folder ls -l # do not run this next line! is much better presented as: [sourcecode language=“bash”] cd /some/random/folder ls -l # do not run this next line! [/sourcecode] by wrapping it in [sourcecode] tags I’ve known about the language=‘xx’ attribute that you can use with the tag, but Ed’s posting prompted me to check on the syntax and it turns out there a few tweaks one can use.