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.

Paul Kevin

sdkns

Never Settle

For even more powerful functionality, <a href="https://wpsitecloner.com/pricing/?utm_campaign=in+plugin+referral&utm_source=ns-cloner&utm_medium=plugin&utm_content=pro+pricing" rel="nofollow ugc">check out NS Cloner Pro</a>
This is by far the easiest, fastest, and most user-friendly way you will ever create fully configured sites on your multisite networks. The NS Cloner will take any existing site on your WordPress multisite network and clone it into a new site that is completely identical in theme & theme settings, plugins & plugin configurations, content, pictures, videos, and site settings.
Everything is preserved and intelligent replacements are made so that the new site settings reflect your choices for the name and title, and have automatic URL replacements and other background updates to make sure the new site works exactly the same way as if you had taken the time to set it all up manually.
Important: this plugin only works with WordPress Multisite (although the pro version works for single sites as well). You will find its menu in your network administration dashboard (wp-admin/network).
<h4>Typical Workflow for using the NS Cloner</h4>
<ol>
<li>Set up 1 or more sites exactly the way you want your clones to start out.</li>
<li>Go to your Network Dashboard > NS Cloner.</li>
<li>Select the site you that want to clone, and enter the desired URL and title of the new site.</li>
<li>Clone away with one click!</li>
</ol>
Yes, it really is that easy.
<h4>Primary Use Cases</h4>
<ul>
<li>Developers who host and manage multiple client sites in their own multisite environment – this will allow you to rapidly roll out new baseline sites with all your favorite standard plugins and configurations in place. No more tedious manual repetitive entry!</li>
<li>Designers who want to be able to create several versions of sites to test and play with different theme designs in parallel, without wasting time with unnecessary duplication.</li>
<li>Teams who want to have a quick way to set up staging sites for collaboration, or effortlessly duplicate content for regional versions of sites, etc.</li>
<li>Organizations which provide “member” sites and want to be able to reduce the site spin up time to almost nothing.</li>
<li>Affiliates that host numerous sites through multisite and are looking for a way to increase reach and decrease deployment times.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Features</h3>
<h4>Core Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Copies an entire site in seconds</li>
<li>Works in subdomain or subdirectory mode</li>
<li>Copies all widgets, menus, and theme and plugin settings</li>
<li>Copies all pages, posts, custom post types and taxonomies</li>
<li>Copies all uploaded media files and associated data</li>
<li>Works in the background to avoid timeouts or memory shortages on large sites</li>
<li>You can close your tab without interrupting cloning, or stay and watch the progress live</li>
<li>Advanced validation and preemptive issue detection</li>
<li>Robust process logging to help with troubleshooting</li>
<li>Hook-rich cloning pipeline for developers to extend</li>
<li>Translation ready</li>
</ul>
<h4>Pro Features</h4>
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<ul>
<li>Teleport (new) – remote cloning power: clone a subsite to a remote network, or even teleport an entire multisite network to a remote location.</li>
<li>Single Site (new) – gain the ability to clone standard single sites, not just multisite, and even clone between single and multisite or vice versa.</li>
<li>WP CLI Addon (new) – easily copy sites directly from the command line.</li>
<li>Search & Replace – perform unlimited, effortless custom search and replace on cloned content.</li>
<li>Table Manager – easily manage exactly which database tables are cloned.</li>
<li>Users Cloning – ability to clone all WordPress users and their permissions, or instantly create new users for cloned sites.</li>
<li>Presets – save commonly used cloning settings as shortcuts for even ore time savings.</li>
</ul>

NS Cloner – Site Copier

It works perfectly and is a very helpful tool. We used other plugins that caused problems and errors - this one is perfect and highly recommended.

Great and helpful tool

this plugin did not make a clone, and instead broke my website

broke my site


The plugin works very well and is saving us a ton of time. Thank you!


Works well!

The NS Cloner saves TONS of time by cloning existing sites in a multisite network to a completely new site in a few seconds.

Copy as Markdown Button vs NS Cloner – Site Copier