The Moment It Happened
You generated a quick release summary and pasted it into your company's WordPress or Webflow CMS editor. The visual editor showed text that looked fine at a glance, so you scheduled it and logged off for the weekend.
On Monday morning, your CEO sent a screenshot of the live company homepage: every section title was displaying literal ### What This Means hash marks in 16px body copy above the fold.
The Hidden Root Cause: Markdown in WYSIWYG Editors
AI models write output in Markdown by default (# Heading 1, ### Heading 3, **bold**, [link](url)). However, most modern web CMSs (WordPress Gutenberg, Webflow, Notion, Substack, Medium) operate as rich-text WYSIWYG editors rather than raw Markdown parsers.
When you paste raw Markdown into a rich-text field, the editor treats the syntax characters as literal prose characters instead of transforming them into semantic HTML tags.
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