7 February 2010
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Jiang W. WordPress Text Flow vs. Markdown. Stone Studio. 2010. Available at: http://wei-jiang.com/it/software/wordpress-text-flow-vs-markdown. Accessed September 3, 2010.
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Thank you for your interest.
Michel Fortin reviewed his analysis in how to make PHP Markdown works with WordPress.
It works since a year now, but there have always been many glitches. All this relates to the text flow model WordPress has adopted, which is very powerful but badly adapted to a writing syntax different from HTML. To work correctly, the Markdown plugin must in some way mess with the inner working of WordPress by moving many filters out the way.
Here is his documentation.