Importing Markdown posts to WordPress

[Sam Angove]

On Dec 28, 2007 12:04 PM, Dr. Drang <drdrang at gmail.com> wrote:

> This evening, I exported all the posts from WP, and got an XML file.

> In this XML file, the incorrectly-imported posts have their code

> blocks shoved up against the left margin instead of indented 4 spaces.

> Not surprising, given that WP thinks they are regular paragraphs.


It's almost certainly [this][1], in WordPress's MT importer:

        $line = trim($line);

If it's needed at all (for removing trailing newlines?), `rtrim` ought
to do the job without destroying your codeblocks.

[1]: http://trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/wp-admin/import/mt.php#L281