diff --git a/public/api-builder/docs-package/processors/checkUnbalancedBackTicks.js b/public/api-builder/docs-package/processors/checkUnbalancedBackTicks.js
index 2d359c7785..2c1277fa35 100644
--- a/public/api-builder/docs-package/processors/checkUnbalancedBackTicks.js
+++ b/public/api-builder/docs-package/processors/checkUnbalancedBackTicks.js
@@ -1,5 +1,14 @@
 var _ = require('lodash');
 
+function escapeHtml(unsafe) {
+  return unsafe
+    .replace(/&/g, "&")
+    .replace(/</g, "&lt;")
+    .replace(/>/g, "&gt;")
+    .replace(/"/g, "&quot;")
+    .replace(/'/g, "&#039;");
+}
+
 /**
  * @dgProcessor checkUnbalancedBackTicks
  * @description
@@ -10,9 +19,20 @@ var _ = require('lodash');
 module.exports = function checkUnbalancedBackTicks(log, createDocMessage) {
 
   var BACKTICK_REGEX = /^ *```/gm;
+  //  captures below
+  //   1st is entire ``` with leading 2 blanks
+  //   2nd is the name of the language (if any) specified after the ```
+  //   3nd is the contents of the ``` block up until but not including the first non whitespace char after the end ```
+  //   4th is the padding of the first nonblank line following the backtick block
+  //   5th is the first char on the next line.
+  var BACKTICK_CAPTURE = /(  ```(.*$)([^]*?)```\s*)^(\s*)(\S)/m;
 
+
+  var CODE_EXAMPLE = 'code-example(format="linenums" language="js").';
   return {
-    $runAfter: ['checkAnchorLinksProcessor'],
+    // $runAfter: ['checkAnchorLinksProcessor'],
+    $runAfter: ['inlineTagProcessor'],
+    $runBefore: ['writeFilesProcessor'],
     $process: function(docs) {
       _.forEach(docs, function(doc) {
         if ( doc.renderedContent ) {
@@ -20,6 +40,26 @@ module.exports = function checkUnbalancedBackTicks(log, createDocMessage) {
           if (matches && matches.length % 2 !== 0) {
             log.warn(createDocMessage('checkUnbalancedBackTicks processor: unbalanced backticks found in rendered content', doc));
             console.log(doc.renderedContent);
+          } else if (matches) {
+            var captures = BACKTICK_CAPTURE.exec(doc.renderedContent);
+            while (captures) {
+              var entireBlock = captures[1];
+              var language = captures[2];
+              var blockContents = captures[3];
+              var pad = captures[4];
+              if (pad.length >= 2) {
+                pad = pad.substr(2);
+              }
+              var nextBlockStartChar = captures[5];
+              var codeExamplePrefix = language.length ? CODE_EXAMPLE.replace('js', language) : CODE_EXAMPLE;
+              var replaceVal = codeExamplePrefix + escapeHtml(blockContents) + '\n';
+              if (nextBlockStartChar != '.') {
+                replaceVal = replaceVal + pad + ':markdown\n';
+              }
+              doc.renderedContent = doc.renderedContent.replace(entireBlock, replaceVal);
+              captures = BACKTICK_CAPTURE.exec(doc.renderedContent);
+            }
+            var x = 3;
           }
         }
       });