Basically, title says it all. How do I disable Markdown for the whole forum? Same question about BBCode and HTML. The only thing that should be allowed to be formatted - is line breaks. Thanks.

There is no way to do this at the current time.

What if I replace PrettyText.cook on line 266 sanitized = markdown(working_text, options) to sanitized = working_text ? And remove the preview pane for the comment.

Then you’re going to have a “fun” time when you go to upgrade Discourse. What’s the reasoning behind this? Would hiding the composer toolbar work for you?

I’m not going to upgrade then. Reasoning is that someone has typed a list of 20 rows, each prefixed by “#”. Now I have 20 H1’s and SEO manager gives me headaches saying that Google doesn’t like when there’s more than 1 H1 per page. So yes, it’s critical for me to remove this “feature” completely a…

How do I blacklist all the markdown tags?

The SitePoint forum is a web dev forum. Hence very often code that contains the hash symbol in a comment or CSS gets posted. If a new member does not fence the code, it makes for some rather unsightly posts. I’d even go so far to say that posts that require reformating because of that, and HTML t…

[image] alfuken: someone has typed a list of 20 rows, each prefixed by “#”. Now I have 20 H1’s and SEO manager gives me headaches Why don’t you just edit the post? (e.g. by changing # to - which will render as a proper list)

[image] alfuken: Google doesn’t like when there’s more than 1 H1 per page On a slightly unrelated note, what your SEO manager said appears to be a misconception or, at least, not true anymore starting from HTML5.

Are you seriously offering to edit each and every post that accidentally contains HTML?.. The task is not limited to just hashtags, the task is to disable Markdown completely, or to either simply strip any HTML except line breaks from the post content.

How do I disable Markdown completely?

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jomaxro (Joshua Rosenfeld) August 17, 2016, 4:02pm 6

Could you simply blacklist #?

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