[Plugin: WP-Markdown] Shortcode support?

I’ve been playing around with syntax highlighting, and I’m thinking I may dump SyntaxHighlighter Evolved. I’ve been using it (well Alex Gorbatchev’s) for years with all of my source code. But your plugin gave me a different idea. Since the prettify.js file in your plugin simply uses jQuery to modify pre tags, all my old code examples get highlighting. That’s an excellent idea! I like the simplicity of the Google Code Prettify, and am thinking of migrating my blog to use it or perhaps another lighter-weight highlighter using your simple approach.

By the way, fantastic plugin… I’ve been looking for a Markdown solution for quite some time now, and nothing seems to match up to your approach.

Thanks,
Damien

Hi Damien,
Apologies for the delayed response. Shortcodes, in general, should work (images, captions etc). However if there is content inside the shortocodes, it needs to be on its own line(s) so the Markdown->HTML parser doesn’t get confused.

As for syntax highlighters in particular – I’ve not tried any, but I can imagine that they could well confuse the plug-in. I’ve found Google Prettify to (usually) a very easy and stable solution. It is an excellent idea, but not mine. The inspiration for the plug-in is the Stack Exchange sites – and this mainly their solution ported to WordPress (along with some very good HTML <–> MarkdDown parsers – again, not by me). Overall, I did very little :).