Quick tip: Use Markdown with Drupal

To use markdown on Drupal, you apply it as a text filter. Your content stays as-is then gets processed (through a filter) using Markdown before being displayed on your site as html.

Install a markdown filter module

• Find a filter module like Markdown Filter
• Copy link to download tar.gz link
  
• In the modules area, Install a new module, Paste in the url
  

Enable the markdown module (in module section)

Apply markdown filter (in configuration section)

• In the configuration section, go to the Content Authoring, Text format section
  
• Add a new text format
  
  
• Make sure you check markdown
  

Select markdown as a text format in your content type