From 42febc1e6489a2e97e12fc257f5d29ca943c65d6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Rodrigo Ghedin <rodrigo@ghed.in>
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2026 08:34:53 -0300
Subject: [PATCH] Add support for blockquotes

---
 markdown-comments-for-wordpress.php | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/markdown-comments-for-wordpress.php b/markdown-comments-for-wordpress.php
index 2c03c98..229256e 100644
--- a/markdown-comments-for-wordpress.php
+++ b/markdown-comments-for-wordpress.php
@@ -175,6 +175,11 @@ function markdown_comments_apply_inline_formatting( $text ) {
         return '<a href="' . $url . '" rel="nofollow">' . esc_html($matches[1]) . '</a>';
     }, $text );
 
+    // Blockquotes.
+    $text = preg_replace_callback( '/(?:^&gt;\s?(.*)$\n?)+/m', function($matches) {
+        return '<blockquote>' . esc_html($matches[1]) . '</blockquote>';
+    }, $text );
+
     return $text;
 }