Code blocks escaped with backticks are not parsed in FAQ?

[GamerZ]

I am not sure whether it is my mistake.

But I have a few code blocks which are escaped by backticks as a FAQ. You can take a look at the readme.txt in SVN ​https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-polls/trunk/readme.txt (right at the end)

But when it is parsed ​https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-polls/ (expand the "To Display Total Polls"), only the bullet point is being parsed.

Is it a bug or my mistake?

[dd32]

Looks like the Markdown parser is getting confused a bit here - but also that it's being more strict than the previous one.

Although it previously worked, code blocks are not supposed to be surrounded by a single backtick, instead according to the ​Markdown syntax they're supposed to be indented (ie. see how ​github parses that readme)

We're using ​Markdown Extra which adds extra syntaxes, such as ​fenced code blocks which should help here.

There might be something else happening here though, because even after changing it to a fenced code block, it still choked returning the following, note the unescaped <?php.

<pre><code><?php if ( function_exists( 'get_pollanswers' ) ): ?>
&lt;?php get_pollanswers(); ?&gt;
<?php endif; ?>
</code></pre>

I'm not sure if this is being caused by the fact it's within a list element, or if the library simply can't process code blocks properly.

[GamerZ]

@dd32 does it now supports markdown better?

I have a parser to convert GitHub README.md to WordPress readme.txt. This is the original README.md ​https://github.com/lesterchan/wp-polls/blob/master/README.md

Will it work if I just use this readme and paste it over to WordPress readme.txt since it is better supported?

[figureone]

#2770 was marked as a duplicate.

[Otto42]

@GamerZ Can't hurt to try the original form. I have seen authors using more or less unaltered markdown, including such things as # headers. Seems to work fine in the new directory.

[GamerZ]

Replying to Otto42:

@GamerZ Can't hurt to try the original form. I have seen authors using more or less unaltered markdown, including such things as # headers. Seems to work fine in the new directory.

Thanks. I tested, it works fine. But the bug still persists despite using GH Markdown. Can't have code in a bullet point

[zodiac1978]

It looks like code blocks with single backticks in a readme.txt are parsed correctly:
​https://wordpress.org/plugins/cachify/#the%20cache%20folder%20is%20indexed%20by%20search%20engines%21

​https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/cachify/tags/2.3.2/readme.txt

But if you use a readme.md (which is also parsed as readme.txt replacement) and use three backticks (code block) it breaks:
​https://wordpress.org/plugins/spcl/#does%20it%20matter%20whether%20a%20url%20is%20http%20or%20https%3F

​https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/spcl/tags/1.0.1/README.md