Add Editor-Only Notes via the Markdown Comment Block WordPress Plugin
Rich Tabor, the Senior Product Manager of WordPress Experience at GoDaddy, tweeted that he had an idea for a new block at the end of last week. Shortly after, the Markdown Comment Block plugin appeared on WordPress.org. The plugin is a one-off block. It allows users to enter notes directly into the post editor that will not appear on the front end of the site. Tabor said he came up with the idea when working on an article for building single-block plugins. There are few things I love more than simple plugins with a tight focus, performing a single function. Markdown Comment Block lands in this category. The plugin creates a new block that works nearly the same as a typical Paragraph block: Adding inline comments to a post. Users can change the text color, but they will not have access to the typical Rich Text controls. Those should be unnecessary anyway. As someone who does long-form writing almost exclusively in Markdown, the block’s use of the double percent-sign syntax for comments intrigued me. Technically, the Markdown spec does not support any sort of special characters for them. It handles HTML comments. However, those appear in the source code on…
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