Feature Suggestion – Markdown Support – Autopost from .txt/.md files in folder
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This plugin looks very nice. I tested it a bit, and it does as advertised.
My WP blog is set up to use markdown for posts instead of html. When postie grabs markdown that I have emailed, it doesn’t format it quite right, and the quotations get munged and tied all together in a single line for each “>” markdown indicator. (“>” not counting the quotes indicates a citation in markdown.
What I would really like to see is the ability for postie to properly process markdown without changing it at all. If I email markdown formatted text to the postie address, I don’t want one byte to be changed. I want the markdown to be passed to wordpress exactly as is, line breaks, carriage returns, and all, without any formatting or tag correction applied. And I would like to be able to have postie iterate through files in a folder on my web host, and process those markdown files into posts, either discarding them when processed, or changing the filename extension to something postie would ignore. Then I could just upload a whole bunch of markdown text files to a folder via ftp, and forget about it while postie grabs them and posts them according to a schedule.
Lots of people are moving from wordpress to other platforms because of the speed and efficiency of writing with markdown files in a native text editor. I see in postie a doorway to starndardizing flat file support for wordpress, without complicated, needless attempts move away from the database backend. Personally, I would rather never, ever use neither the wordpress import posts feature nor the wordpress post editor ever again.
I would code it myself, but I just don’t know enough about wordpress functions and hooks to do it. It would take me a year of Sundays to figure all that out.
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