Once you've gotten to grips with writing Markdown, you'll need some kind of parsing application to convert your Markdown into HTML markup. Later on in this tutorial, we'll walk through the steps of creating theme documentation using Markdown, so you'll see just how lightweight and fast it is! Converting Markdown Because the syntax is so basic, it's easy to both write and read Markdown. Instead of using HTML tags (which, relatively speaking, take a lot of time to write) Markdown’s job is to get out of the way of your thought process, allowing you to focus on content. About MarkdownĬreated by John Gruber, Markdown is a plain text formatting syntax which makes creating basic HTML elements a lot easier. Markdown, a lightweight and *really* simple formatting syntax can solve all that for you. Writing the content won't necessarily be that problematic, it's more likely creating the help files which will take up precious time.

Now for the tedious part the documentation.

So you’ve created an awesome theme, template or web application.

Macdown documentation