aaron evans

This blog uses WordPress for its backend. Until today, I was using ecto to publish my posts and formatting my posts using HTML. In general, it works ok. For the sake of change, I decided this morning to try a new blogging workflow:

• Format posts in Markdown
• Write posts using TextMate
• Keep WordPress as my blogging backend

Markdown is great. I like being able to easily read and write my fomatted posts.

TextMate has a great blogging bundle. The screencast should sell anyone who is on the fence about using a text editor for blogging. ecto supports Markdown as well but I really like the syntax highlighting and shortcuts that are provided by TextMate.

The final piece of this puzzle is installing the PHP Markdown plugin to allow WordPress to transform Markdown into HTML. The installation is simple and works fine as far as I can tell.

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