Using Markdown
Markdown provides a simple way to write your copy in extremely legible plain text. The text can then be converted (by Nesta) to standards compliant HTML. Inline HTML is supported.
To create a page in Markdown, make a new file with a .mdown extension
inside the content/pages folder. See the source of this page
for an example.
See my Markdown cheat sheet or the Markdown project page for instructions on Markdown itself.
Articles on Using Markdown
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Anatomy of an article
This is an article about how to make an "article" (as distinct from a "page"). This article has been summarised with this short paragraph; if you click the "Show me more" link you'll be able to read the entire article. But wait! Before you move on, you should be able to see (if your current theme supports it) that this article was published on 25 December, and was added to a couple of categories.
Have a look at the top of
anatomy-of-an-article.mdownto see how it's done…