Plenty of ways to try Markdown within Wordpress: http://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/markdown
I develop with PHP regularly and absolutely love the strides the community has been making with Composer, the PSRs & frameworks like Laravel.
I have also built tooling, plugins & themes for wordpress. I personally found it to be a frustrating experience: like I had been lobbed back to the days of PHP 4 when I thought all the PHP haters might have had a point (I wish to be emphatic - I don't think this anymore).
From a development perspective:
- The "loop" is bad design - with no regard for separation of concerns and maintainability.
- The lack of namespacing means you have to go through a dance, working around Wordpress's idiosyncratic structure, in order to build around Wordpress effectively.
- I personally don't think much of their documentation.
Re:Ghost Launches to The Public
by kerryritter on Monday October 14, 2013 @09:23AM
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Agreed. WordPress is hardly difficult to extend or build for.
Then again, Markdown would be neat to work with, but in the end I'd just rather use html if I need to markup something. And I do like trying new things.