I decided to use the built-in Jetpack markdown .

If I write a piece of code, like this:

```css #button { border: none; } ```

That is no syntax highlighting. Although the formatting does not spoil and there is a frame. I have no other plugins. Well, markdown itself works, stars become bolts, grids - headings.

What am I doing wrong?

Here it is promised that the backlight should be: https://en.support.wordpress.com/markdown-quick-reference/

  • Are you asking about a wordpress.com blog? Or about a personal WordPress site? - mihdan
  • Speech about your own site. - JustMoose

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If we are talking about a site based on WordPress, and not about a blog on the wordpress.com platform, then only a few tags work from the box:

  • asterisk (*) or a dash (-) bulleted list
  • input 1. or 1) numbered list
  • start paragraph from 2 to 6 grids (#) headings of different levels
  • start with a symbol greater than (>) quote

This video shows

Extended Markdown in Jetpack needs to be activated.

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And nowhere is it written in the manual that there should be syntax highlighting, you are confusing with wordpress.com, most likely.

  • I have it, it seems, is activated: (In the link to the manual that you cited, somewhere in the middle it says: "Jetpack uses Markdown Extra ... See the WordPress.com Markdown Quick Reference page" And if this Quick Reference to click, then en.support.wordpress.com/markdown-quick-reference opens, where “Syntax highlighting" is mentioned. Therefore, I think the backlight should be there! - JustMoose
  • So you expect syntax highlighting in TinyMCE or on the client side? - mihdan
  • On the client. I expect that the "visitor" of the site will see a piece of colored code. If I appropriately designate this code, in the process of writing a post. - JustMoose