Is it possible to pass WordPress shortcodes through untouched when converting from markdown to HTML?

[johnoregan]

Hello All,

I want to use Pandoc to convert markdown to HTML, and then upload the HTML to my free WordPress.com site. Problem is, WordPress uses shortcodes like:

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_dQfUCywPg]

In most cases, just the URL on a line on its own will do:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_dQfUCywPg

Apologies if this has been asked before, but is there a way to tell Pandoc to ignore the next line from the input file and pass it through untouched to the output file? Maybe by wrapping it in a specially formatted HTML comment? For example:

<!-- shortcode -->
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_dQfUCywPg]
<!-- /shortcode -->

Sure, I could do it programmatically, but why bother if Pandoc can do it already?

Any suggestions appreciated.

Thanks!

John

[rnwst]

I'm not familiar with Wordpress shortcodes, but the text [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_dQfUCywPg] is not being transformed by pandoc in any way when converting from Markdown to HTML. If test.md contains the following:

Some text.
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_dQfUCywPg]
More text.

and I run pandoc test.md --to html, then the output is

<p>Some text. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_dQfUCywPg] More
text.</p>

Could you elaborate what you are having issues with?

[jgm]

This syntax will pass it through to HTML unchanged:

```{=html}
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_dQfUCywPg]
```

[johnoregan]

Hi John, Thanks, it works perfectly! And there's an inline variant as well. Cheers! John