Jose Varghese

Copy as Markdown Button lets your visitors copy any post or page content as clean, well-structured Markdown with a single click. It handles everything from headings and tables to code blocks and nested lists – no extra tools or dependencies required.
Placement & Auto-injection
<ul>
<li>Automatically injects the button before or after the content on any combination of post types (posts, pages, and custom post types)</li>
<li>Shortcode <code>[copy_as_markdown]</code> for manual placement in any post, page, or widget</li>
<li>Gutenberg block available in the Widgets category – place it anywhere in the block editor with per-block overrides for button text, size, and content selector</li>
<li>Exclude specific posts or pages from auto-injection by entering their IDs – shortcode and block placements are unaffected</li>
</ul>
Button Customisation
<ul>
<li>Choose button size: Small, Medium, or Large</li>
<li>Set custom background, text, and hover colours via colour pickers</li>
<li>Adjust corner radius from 0 px (square) to 50 px (pill)</li>
<li>Show or hide the copy icon alongside the button label</li>
<li>Customise the button label (default: “Copy as Markdown”) and the success confirmation text (default: “Copied!”)</li>
<li>Live preview in the settings panel updates instantly as you change style options</li>
</ul>
Content Control
<ul>
<li>Optionally prepend the post title as a Markdown H1 heading</li>
<li>Custom CSS selector to target a specific page element instead of the auto-detected content area</li>
<li>Exclude any elements from the Markdown output using CSS selectors (one per line) – useful for stripping ads, share buttons, comment sections, and related posts</li>
<li>Per-shortcode overrides for button text, size, content selector, and download button visibility</li>
</ul>
Download Button
<ul>
<li>Optional dropdown “Download as .md” button that saves the converted Markdown as a <code>.md</code> file directly from the browser, named after the post slug</li>
<li>Appears alongside the copy button in a split-button dropdown</li>
<li>Can be force-enabled or force-disabled per shortcode instance using the <code>download</code> attribute</li>
</ul>
Markdown URL Endpoint
<ul>
<li>Enable a <code>.md.txt</code> URL endpoint so any post or page can be viewed as plain-text Markdown by appending <code>.md.txt</code> to its URL (e.g. <code>yoursite.com/your-post-slug.md.txt</code>)</li>
<li>The server converts the post HTML to Markdown and serves it as <code>text/plain</code> – useful for programmatic access, LLM ingestion, and content pipelines</li>
<li>Works with Elementor pages by using Elementor’s own renderer when available</li>
<li>Optional “View as Markdown” link in the button dropdown opens the plain-text endpoint in a new tab</li>
<li>Customisable link label for the “View as Markdown” item</li>
</ul>
HTML-to-Markdown Conversion
The converter handles a wide range of HTML elements cleanly:
<ul>
<li>Headings (H1–H6), paragraphs, line breaks, and horizontal rules</li>
<li>Bold (<code>**</code>), italic (<code>*</code>), and strikethrough (<code>~~</code>) inline formatting</li>
<li>Hyperlinks with optional title attributes; images with alt text and titles</li>
<li>Fenced code blocks with language detection from the <code>language-*</code> CSS class</li>
<li>Inline code with backtick escaping</li>
<li>Blockquotes with proper <code>></code> prefixing on every line</li>
<li>Ordered and unordered lists with full nested list support</li>
<li>Tables converted to GitHub-Flavored Markdown pipe tables</li>
<li>Figures with italicised captions</li>
<li>YouTube iframe embeds converted to <code>[Video](url)</code> Markdown links</li>
<li>Scripts, styles, navigation, and form elements are automatically stripped</li>
</ul>
Accessibility & Performance
<ul>
<li>ARIA labels, <code>role="status"</code> live region for screen-reader announcements after copy</li>
<li>Keyboard-navigable dropdown with <code>aria-expanded</code> and <code>role="menu"</code> semantics</li>
<li>Frontend CSS and JavaScript are only loaded on pages where the button will actually appear</li>
</ul>

Copy as Markdown Button

Adds a button to copy markdown, download, and view post as Markdown format. Supports shortcode, Gutenberg block and .md.txt endpoint.

Tekod lab.

This plugin allows you to clone flexible content blocks (layouts) to another page or site. 
The entire contents of block will be transferred, including repeater items and its contents.
It uses a regular clipboard to store content, so you can paste it to notepad application and use it later to populating other pages.
<h3>Usage</h3>
Simply install and activate the plugin. No settings available.
The plugin will add a new option “Copy layout” to the header of each layout, and new menu at the bottom of the flexible container.
Click on “Copy layout” option will copy the content of the block to the clipboard. 
In the bottom menu on target page use “Paste layouts” option and new blocks will appear. 
Nothing is saved unless you click the regular “Update” button.
Bottom menu contains “Copy all layouts” to copy the entire flexible container to the clipboard.
As a feature, this plugin will try to recognize the URLs in the pasted content and replace the source domain with the target one. 
This is often required when moving blocks from a staging to a live environment to keep links local.
<h3>Limitations</h3>
This will not transfer media or posts. 
Coping fields that use ID-s to refer to a content (such as: media images, links, relationship…) to another website may link the wrong resource to the field because posts/media on another site may have different ID-s. 
In this case you must manually edit such fields and connect appropriate media/posts.
Only built-in field types are supported and tested. 
Additional (extended) field types are likely to be copied as well, but without guarantees.
<h3>Credits</h3>
This plugin contains code form other GPLv2 projects, credits go to: 
 – https://www.acf-extended.com 
 – https://wordpress.org/plugins/acf-flexible-layouts-manager 
 – https://github.com/magicstickuk/Flexible-Content-Duplication
“ACF-extended” has similar feature, but it didn’t work on any of 20 sites I tested, probably because of the way how the flexible container is integrated into the project. 
So I created a solution that works for me and shared publicly with everyone with the same problem.
<h3>Contact</h3>
Please, send bug reports and feature requests to <a href="mailto:office@tekod.com" rel="nofollow ugc">office@tekod.com</a>

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