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
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<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
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<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
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<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
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<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
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<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:
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<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.

Evan Herman

Ben Rothman

Post Cloner will create a quick to access action button on the post/page edit screen alongside ‘Edit’, ‘Quick Edit’, ‘Trash’ and ‘View’.
All cloned posts, pages and custom post types will have ‘- Clone’ appended to the end of their title. All cloned posts, pages and custom post types will also be set to draft so they don’t appear anywhere on your site until you decide to publish them.
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Features
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<li>Clone posts, pages and custom post types</li>
<li>Full control over what is clone-able (Example: Enable cloning pages but disabled for posts)</li>
<li>Works with Easy Digital Downloads</li>
<li>Complete clone of posts/pages including taxonomies and meta data (includes featured images, categories, tags and any custom metadata assigned to the post/page/custom post type)</li>
<li>Lightweight, compact solution</li>
<li>Nonce checks implemented for security</li>
<li>High quality code adhering to <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/best-practices/coding-standards/" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress Coding Standards</a></li>
</ul>
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FuturePlans
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<li>Additional settings to adjust post data of the new cloned post</li>
</ul>

Post Cloner

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The one issue I have found is that when creating custom post types with PODS, that when a custom field such as "Relationship [type: pick]" where the value is another post type, the selected values are not copied over.



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Post cloner allows you to easily make complete duplicates of any post on your site. That includes posts, pages and custom post types.

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