Enjoy your editorial experience with Markdown
Video Description
Enjoy your editorial experience with Markdown
We have all been there. We submit an article or technical content and the editorial team formats it in a way that changes the content or breaks accessibility.
Often, writers will submit their content in Google Docs. An editor then has to strip out all of Google's Gremlins to paste into the Drupal editor, so they end up with just a wall of text, left to add headings, links, bullets, and code blocks, and maybe in a way that changes the content.
Enter Markdown!
Markdown is very popular for authors and developers. It's lightweight and straightforward to learn. Its open format allows it to be used across environments and tools, and you can keep control over your editorial experience. And guess what? It's in CKEditor 5.
In this talk, we'll learn about the benefits of Markdown and move through some of the basic syntax so you can start using Markdown immediately (live demo). We can also do a quick review of editors that have gentle learning curves.
Three takeaways
Platforms can easily convert Markdown to HTML
Markdown has a very gentle learning curve and is human-readable
Drupal Core and contributed modules support Markdown
AmyJune Hineline
Aaron Winborn Award Winner and Drupal Core Mentor @ The Linux Foundation
AmyJune currently works with the Linux Foundation Education team as their Certification Community Architect. She is responsible for supporting the Certification team’s efforts in building and maintaining exams and related documentation for exam products in the Linux Foundation’s certification portfolio.
She is a Drupal Mentor Coordinator, DrupalCamp organizer, and Drupal CWG Conflict Resolution Team member. She serves on the board of the Colorado Drupal Association. AmyJune is also a member of the CNCF's Deaf and Hard of Hearing Working Group. I connect first-time contributors with roles that match their skills, helping communities discover how they can contribute and belong beyond code.
Her ongoing experience as a hospice nurse keeps her in touch with many end-users' challenges. In her continued efforts to make a difference, she helps organize A11yTalks, an online meetup that advocates all things accessibility - one of the core components of building an inclusive web.
AmyJune helps communities discover how they can contribute and belong in more ways than code. Her ability to eat with her elbows on the table has wowed the world.
https://www.midcamp.org/2025/topic-proposal/enjoy-your-editorial-experience-markdown
We have all been there. We submit an article or technical content and the editorial team formats it in a way that changes the content or breaks accessibility.
Often, writers will submit their content in Google Docs. An editor then has to strip out all of Google's Gremlins to paste into the Drupal editor, so they end up with just a wall of text, left to add headings, links, bullets, and code blocks, and maybe in a way that changes the content.
Enter Markdown!
Markdown is very popular for authors and developers. It's lightweight and straightforward to learn. Its open format allows it to be used across environments and tools, and you can keep control over your editorial experience. And guess what? It's in CKEditor 5.
In this talk, we'll learn about the benefits of Markdown and move through some of the basic syntax so you can start using Markdown immediately (live demo). We can also do a quick review of editors that have gentle learning curves.
Three takeaways
Platforms can easily convert Markdown to HTML
Markdown has a very gentle learning curve and is human-readable
Drupal Core and contributed modules support Markdown
AmyJune Hineline
Aaron Winborn Award Winner and Drupal Core Mentor @ The Linux Foundation
AmyJune currently works with the Linux Foundation Education team as their Certification Community Architect. She is responsible for supporting the Certification team’s efforts in building and maintaining exams and related documentation for exam products in the Linux Foundation’s certification portfolio.
She is a Drupal Mentor Coordinator, DrupalCamp organizer, and Drupal CWG Conflict Resolution Team member. She serves on the board of the Colorado Drupal Association. AmyJune is also a member of the CNCF's Deaf and Hard of Hearing Working Group. I connect first-time contributors with roles that match their skills, helping communities discover how they can contribute and belong beyond code.
Her ongoing experience as a hospice nurse keeps her in touch with many end-users' challenges. In her continued efforts to make a difference, she helps organize A11yTalks, an online meetup that advocates all things accessibility - one of the core components of building an inclusive web.
AmyJune helps communities discover how they can contribute and belong in more ways than code. Her ability to eat with her elbows on the table has wowed the world.
https://www.midcamp.org/2025/topic-proposal/enjoy-your-editorial-experience-markdown