Markus Echterhoff

This is the Markdown plugin for bbPress that I needed, but could not find. It replaces the standard editor with a responsive Markdown form that includes a preview and formatting help. The Markdown is parsed using PHP Markdown(Extra) and saved as a regular HTML bbPress post. The Markdown is saved separately for later editing. The plugin can be activated and deactivated without affecting your bbPress data, it uninstalls cleanly (deleting any saved Markdown code) and is multisite compatible.
Tip: You can give the plugin a slight performance boost if your forum is Markdown only or you don’t care that some non-Markdown posts are displayed slightly different than before (e.g. not turning newlines into paragraphs or no longer making URLs automatically clickable), by adding the following to your theme’s functions.php: <code>add_filter( 'bbpmd_remove_output_filters_for_all_posts', '__return_true' );</code>

bbP Markdown

Thank you for this well-designed plugin, it works seamlessly with existing bbPress setup.

I appreciate the effort and thought put into it, for example, how it integrates techniques from several other related plugins, and how it uninstalls cleanly.

One thing I wish it had is a way to apply the same Markdown editor to normal comments as well.

Works wonders

Elegant Markdown support for your bbPress forums.

mitchmac

The plugin creates zip files containing posts converted to Markdown. A WP-CLI command exists to handle exporting sites with a large amount of content.
<ul>
<li>Move WordPress content to Gatsby-friendly Markdown.</li>
<li>Customize the export! Remap and restructure exported fields.</li>
<li>CLI: Avoid PHP timeouts by using the command line with WP-CLI.</li>
<li>CLI: Export progress bar (great for large sites)!</li>
</ul>
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Reminder: always keep a backup of the WordPress database and files in case your export doesn’t work as expected!
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<h3>Working with Gatsby</h3>
If you’re just getting started with Gatsby, we recommend experimenting with a Markdown based Gatsby starter like <a href="https://github.com/tinacms/tina-starter-grande" rel="nofollow ugc">Tina Grande</a>. Installation is as easy as:
<pre><code>git clone https://github.com/tinacms/tina-starter-grande.git

cd tina-starter-grande

yarn install && gatsby develop
</code></pre>
Then copy your exported WordPress Markdown into the <code>content</code> directory or point the wp gatsby-markdown-export command at the content directory.
Want to port your WordPress or HTML theme to Gatsby? Checkout <a href="https://www.gatsbyjs.org/docs/porting-an-html-site-to-gatsby/" rel="nofollow ugc">Porting an HTML Site to Gatsby</a> for tips.
<h3>Command Line Usage</h3>
The command line functionality uses WP-CLI to interact with WordPress. <a href="https://wp-cli.org/#installing" rel="nofollow ugc">WP-CLI is easy to install</a> if you haven’t already.
Once it’s installed, you can export content to a directory like this:
<pre><code>wp gatsby-markdown-export --directory=/example/gatsby-starter/src/content
</code></pre>
All CLI arguments are optional.
 Option 
 Description 
 Default value
 <code>--help</code> 
 get help
 <code>--directory=</code> 
 export output directory 
 random temp directory
 <code>--post_types=</code> 
 post types to export, see: https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_query/#post-type-parameters 
 page,post
 <code>--post_status=</code> 
 post status to export, see: https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_query/#status-parameters 
 any
 <code>--fields_to_markdown=</code> 
 fields to convert to Markdown 
 excerpt
 <code>--excluded_front_matter=</code> 
 fields to exclude from front matter
 <code>--post_date_format=</code> 
 format for post publish date, see: https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php 
 c
 <code>--upload_dir=</code> 
 directory in the export to copy WordPress uploads 
 uploads
 <code>--remap_fields=</code> 
 remap front matter field names, example: find1,replace1;find2,replace2
 <code>--fields_to_array=</code> 
 convert single value front matter fields to arrays
 <code>--include_private_fields=</code> 
 private post meta fields to include (they start with _)
 <code>--skip_copy_uploads</code> 
 flag, skips copying WordPress uploads to the export
 <code>--skip_original_images</code> 
 flag, skips the use of original dimension images
 <code>--skip_enforce_charset</code> 
 flag, skips use of blog_charset for the XML charset
 <code>--create_type_directory</code> 
 flag, creates directories based on post type

WP Gatsby Markdown Exporter

Export WordPress content to Markdown for GatsbyJS.

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