Evan Solomon

<p>Comment forms allow some HTML, this plugin extends that to let users type in <a href="http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/" rel="nofollow ugc">Markdown</a> and have it automatically converted to HTML.  It also extends Markdown with a couple features made popular <a href="https://github.com/github/github-flavored-markdown" rel="nofollow ugc">by GitHub</a>.  Conversion from Markdown to HTML is completely automated and doesn’t require anything on the commenter’s part.</p>
<p>The feature additions from GitHub are:</p>
<ul>
<li>Single linebreaks are treated as new paragraphs</li>
<li>Code “fencing” with three backticks (“`)</li>
</ul>
<p>Two notable features from GitHub’s Markdown implementation are missing:</p>
<ul>
<li>To do lists: Doing these well would require some front end interaction, which I decided is outside the scope of this plugin at least for now</li>
<li>Repository autolinking (e.g. comments, issues, etc): These seemed a little <em>too</em> GitHub-specific.</li>
</ul>
<p>GitHub-Flavored Markdown Comments is developed, unsurprisingly, <a href="https://github.com/evansolomon/wp-github-flavored-markdown-comments" rel="nofollow ugc">on GitHub</a>.</p>


GitHub-Flavored Markdown Comments

WordPress plugin to let commenters use (GitHub-flavored) Markdown, and turn it into HTML.

DAEXT

<p>Ultimate Markdown is a plugin for WordPress that allows you to create WordPress posts with the popular Markdown syntax.</p>
<p>Specifically, after installing the plugin, you will be able to:</p>
<ul>
<li>Create posts with perfectly formatted blocks from existing Markdown files or Markdown documents created with the plugin.</li>
<li>Instantly generate blocks from Markdown text.</li>
<li>Create and manage an unlimited number of Markdown documents in a dedicated plugin menu.</li>
<li>Import Markdown file in WordPress.</li>
<li>Create archives of Markdown files from the Markdown documents created with the plugin.</li>
</ul>
<p>Please note that this plugin requires the use of the default <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/article/blocks/">WordPress Blocks Editor</a>. With third-party visual editors or with the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/classic-editor/">Classic Editor</a>, you will not be able to use most of the plugin functionalities.</p>
<h3>Pro Version</h3>
<p>We distribute the <a href="https://daext.com/ultimate-markdown/" rel="nofollow ugc">Pro version</a> of this plugin that includes more export options, REST API, additional Markdown parsers, document categories, and more.</p>
<h3>Additional post sidebar sections</h3>
<p>The plugin adds the following sections to the post sidebar.</p>
<h4>Import Markdown</h4>
<p>This section allows you to generate the blocks of a post from an uploaded Markdown file.</p>
<h4>Load Markdown</h4>
<p>Use this feature to create the blocks of a post from a Markdown document previously created with the plugin.</p>
<h4>Submit Markdown</h4>
<p>With this section, you can instantly transform Markdown text to blocks.</p>
<h3>Dedicated plugin menus</h3>
<h4>Documents</h4>
<p>This menu includes a Markdown editor with an HTML preview section. In addition, you will find functionalities to create, edit, duplicate or delete your Markdown documents.</p>
<h4>Import</h4>
<p>Import one or more Markdown files in the plugin with the upload form provided in this menu.</p>
<h4>Export</h4>
<p>With this menu, you can generate Markdown files from the Markdown documents stored in the plugin.</p>
<h3>Supported Markdown syntax</h3>
<p>The conversion from Markdown text to HTML is performed with <a href="https://github.com/markedjs/marked" rel="nofollow ugc">Marked</a>, a high-performance Markdown parser that supports documents written in the following <a href="https://github.com/commonmark/commonmark-spec/wiki/Markdown-Flavors" rel="nofollow ugc">Markdown flavors</a>.</p>
<h3>Front Matter</h3>
<p>The plugin supports Front Matter key-value pairs provided in the <a href="https://yaml.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">YAML</a> language. With this feature, you can configure specific post settings by providing their values at the beginning of the Markdown document.</p>
<p>Please see the <a href="https://daext.com/doc/ultimate-markdown/" rel="nofollow ugc">plugin documentation</a> for more information on the available Front Matter keys and practical examples.</p>
<h3>Credits</h3>
<p>This plugin makes use of the following resources:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/cure53/DOMPurify" rel="nofollow ugc">DOMPurify</a> licensed under the <a href="https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0" rel="nofollow ugc">Apache License Version 2.0</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/markedjs/marked" rel="nofollow ugc">Marked</a> licensed under the <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php" rel="nofollow ugc">MIT License</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/select2/select2" rel="nofollow ugc">Select2</a> licensed under the <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php" rel="nofollow ugc">MIT License</a></li>
<li><a href="https://getcomposer.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">Composer</a> licensed under the <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php" rel="nofollow ugc">MIT License</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/thephpleague/html-to-markdown" rel="nofollow ugc">HTML To Markdown for PHP</a> licensed under the <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php" rel="nofollow ugc">MIT License</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/mnapoli/FrontYAML" rel="nofollow ugc">FrontYAML</a> licensed under the <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php" rel="nofollow ugc">MIT License</a></li>
</ul>


Ultimate Markdown

Using Markdown with Gutenberg is quite difficult. Markdown block from Jetpack is very limited, plugins proposing to edit in Markdown in a separate editor miss blocks philosophy.
As I prefer to work with my favorite Markdown Editor, Ultimate Markdown is a nice solution : it can import Markdown text in the post and convert the different elements in the relative block. A text paragraph will be a block text, a list a block list and so on. So the result is a real Gutenberg content.

The downside : you cannot convert back to Markdown the post content but it’s not a big deal for me.

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