Want to add text styling to your media descriptions in Wistia? You’ve come to the right place! Here, we’ll go over everything you need to know to use Markdown in your media descriptions.
Wistia media descriptions support several Markdown elements for styling text, images, and links. We'll outline all options with examples below.
Headers and text style
For larger text, you can use three header types: header 1, header 2, or header 3 using the following format:
# header 1## header 2### header 3
You can also bold and italicize text. To bold text, sandwich a word or phrase with ** and to italicize, use *.
Lists
For ordered lists, you can order them just as you would in a regular document:
Item 1
Item 2
Item 3
You can also create ordered sublists or unordered sublists.
Item 1
Item 2
Item 1
Item 2
Item 3
First item
Second item
When making an unordered list, you can use asterisks (*), minuses (-), or pluses (+).
Block quotes
Block quotes are formatted by adding > to the beginning of a sentence.
On a media page, the above text will appear as follows when adding a quote.
Links and images
To add a link to your description, use the following format:
[Click here](https://wistia.com) for more information on Wistia!
When saved, that text will appear like this:
Click here for more information on Wistia!
Note
A Markdown-formatted link is not compatible with previewing or sharing a Channel. You'll need to use HTML to add a link to your Channel description.
To place an image in your description, this can be externally hosted and then linked to in the following format:
