I am tired of the tinymce editor in wordpress and I really love the stackoverflow editor which allows me to write with markdown grammar. So I want to write blog with markdown in wordpress.
Now I am using this plugin in my wordpress:
Plugin Name: Markdown QuickTags
Plugin URI: http://brettterpstra.com/code/markdown-quicktags
Description: Replaces the WordPress QuickTags with Markdown-compatible ones
Version: 0.8.2
Author: Brett Terpstra
Author URI: http://brettterpstra.com
License: GPLv2
It replaces the original editor of wordpress and provides a light-weight interface for me to write with markdown. However, compared with Stackoverflow’s editor, it lacks:
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The SO editor have auto syntax highlighting. I don’t need to specify which kind of language I am typing in. The Markdown QuickTags plugin do not provide the ability for syntax highlighting, and plugins like Wp-markdown-syntax-highlight requires me to manually add a tag to indicate the type of language. Also, I have no idea if the two plugins could work together.
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The SO editor provides live preview, which is the most cool part of SO.
Is there any wordpress plugin(s), or combination of plugins that can meet my requirement? I personally could do some development but I know little about php and js, so it’s really hard for me to write one from scratch (or from the two plugins I mentioned above).
Point 1 above is the most important. And I don’t care if the plugin auto-converts markdown to html, or requires me to click a button like “render” before publishing.