[chrishajer]

Backticks for code go around anything at all, and make it a monospaced font, like where you have blockquote above. If you want to use the html <blockquote> just type [blockquote] without any backticks (use angled brackets rather than the brackets I used to make sure it did not render.) I think you did something like backticks around the HTML for [blockquote] which is not necessary. Just use HTML where you need it and then use backticks anywhere where you want to show the actual HTML, not have it be rendered.