R Markdown Headings
Markdown Quick Reference Cheat Sheet
Markdown Heading Numbering
In standard Markdown, place an anchor where you want to link to and refer to it on the same page by link text (#abcd). (This uses name= and not id=, for reasons explained in this answer.) Remote references can use link text (of course. Starting a line with a hash # and a space makes a header. The more #, the smaller the header. Try It # Heading 1 ## Heading 2 ### Heading 3. For heading level one, there is an alternate “underline” style using = Heading 1 Close.
Note: The instructions from this guide are referring to the Classic Editor. If you are using the WordPress block editor, please see this guide.
See the Markdown page for instructions on enabling Markdown for posts, pages and comments on your blog, and for more detailed information about using Markdown.
| Markdown | Processed | |
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| Emphasis | Emphasize Strong Some WordPress.com themes may have different formatting for these styles | |
| Inline Links | Most browsers show the title text when hovering over a link. Please note that WordPress shortcodes, like [video] or [audio], will take priority over Markdown links and shouldn’t be used for link text. | A link. |
| Referenced Links | The reference section can be anywhere in the document | Some text with a link and another link. |
| Inline Images | The “Alt” text (alternative text) makes images accessible to visually impaired | Logo: |
| Referenced Images | Smaller logo: | |
| Linked Images | Linked logo: | |
| Footnotes | Footnotes will be added to the bottom of the document, with a link back to the original reference | I have more 1 to say up here. |
| Line breaks | We do not support Markdown’s typical double-space to generate a line break due to our built-in auto-linebreaking function. A regular line break will generate a line break on output. | |
| Bullet Lists |
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| Numbered Lists |
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| Mixed Lists |
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| Blockquotes |
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| Preformatted | ||
| Code | This is code | |
| Code block | ||
| Syntax highlighting | See Posting Source Code for supported languages | |
| Headers | Closing hash marks are optional on all levels | Header 1 Header 2 Header 3 Header 4 Header 5 Header 6 |
| Definition Lists |
Formatting for definition lists may vary between themes | |
| Abbreviations | Definitions can be anywhere in the document | Markdown converts text to HTML. |
These are some of the most useful Markdown features available on WordPress.com. See the official Markdown project and Markdown Extra for details about all available features, and variations on the features mentioned here.
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