Markus Echterhoff

<p>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.</p>
<p>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></p>


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.

Terry L.

<p>An all-in-on WordPress Markdown Plugin provides a variety of features such as Markdown editor, live-preview, image-paste, HTML-to-Markdown helper, and more..</p>
<p>Read detailed document, please visit <a href="https://github.com/terrylinooo/githuber-md" rel="nofollow ugc">https://github.com/terrylinooo/githuber-md</a>.</p>
<h3>Demo</h3>
<p><iframe loading="lazy" title="WordPress Markdown Plugin - WP Githuber MD - DEMO" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/it1noNCTXa4?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
<p>The Video shows you the following steps:</p>
<ol>
<li>Convert HTML to Markdown by using <code>HTML to Markdown</code> tool.</li>
<li>Cut up a selection area of an image and copy it from Photoshop, then paste it to Markdown Editor.</li>
<li>Click “Update” button to save Markdown to <code>post_content_filtered</code> and save HTML to <code>post_content</code> (it is what you will see in result).</li>
<li>View the result.</li>
</ol>
<h3>How it works</h3>
<ol>
<li>WP Githuber MD will save your Markdown content into <code>wp_posts</code>.<code>post_content_filtered</code>.</li>
<li>Parse the Markdown to HTML, save the parsed HTML content into <code>wp_posts</code>.<code>post_content</code>.</li>
</ol>
<p>This plugin will detect your Markdown content and decide what scripts will be loaded, to avoid loading unnecessary scripts.<br />
For example, if you enabled Syntax highlight, you have to update your post again to take effects.</p>
<h3>Suggestions</h3>
<p>The better situation to use this plugin is you just started a new blog.</p>
<p>If you’re planning to use this plugin in an existing blog, be sure to:</p>
<ul>
<li>Turn off other Markdown plugins, because the similar plugins might do the same things when submitting your posts, may have some syntax conversion issues between Markdown and HTML.</li>
<li>My suggestion is to turn off revision and auto-save, there are options in setting page.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://markdown-editor.github.io/" rel="nofollow ugc">Markdown editor</a>.</li>
<li>Live preview.</li>
<li>Spell check.</li>
<li>Enable / disable Markdown for single post.</li>
<li>Support Gutenberg editor.</li>
<li>Support custom post types.</li>
<li>Support Markdown extra syntax.</li>
<li>HTML-to-Markdown tool.</li>
<li>Image copy & paste (support uploading to Imgur.com and sm.ms)</li>
<li>Highlight code syntax. (prism.js or hightlight.js)</li>
<li>Flow chart.</li>
<li>KaTex.</li>
<li>Sequence diagram.</li>
<li>Mermaid.</li>
<li>MathJax.</li>
<li>Emoji.</li>
<li>Github flavored Markdown task list.</li>
<li>Fetch remote images.</li>
<li>Keyword suggestion tool.</li>
<li>and more…</li>
</ul>
<h3>Translations</h3>
<p>English (en_US) by <a href="https://colocal.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Colocal</a>.<br />
Traditional Chinese (zh_TW) by <a href="https://www.alexclassroom.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Alex Lion</a>.<br />
Simplified Chinese (zh_CN) by <a href="https://terryl.in/zh/" rel="nofollow ugc">Terry Lin</a>.</p>
<h3>Copyright</h3>
<p>WP Githuber MD, Copyright 2018-2020 TerryL.in<br />
WP Githuber MD is distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL</p>
<p>This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify<br />
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by<br />
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or<br />
(at your option) any later version.</p>
<p>This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,<br />
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of<br />
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the<br />
GNU General Public License for more details.</p>


WP Githuber MD – WordPress Markdown Editor

I would love to give five stars but the developer decided that all URL text should be interpreted. It’s not the way Markdown is working and it breaks the very convenient feature that convert Youtube URL to video in WP. And all embeds feature I presume.

Not compatible with useful WP features


Undoubtedly the best plugin available, and well done too. However, some buttons (e.g. search, h5-h6, clear) present in other similar plugins were missing, so much so that I had to insert them manually, not with little trouble. Therefore, the inclusion of an option to choose the buttons to insert in the toolbar is welcome, or even just a filter that allows you to do so from the theme's functions.php. :-)



Another thing missing is the preview of the highlight themes for code. But it is certainly a minor aspect.


Best plugin but...

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