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.

Ben Balter

James DiGioia

<p><em>A WordPress plugin to sync content with a GitHub repository (or Jekyll site)</em></p>
<p><a href="https://scrutinizer-ci.com/g/mAAdhaTTah/wordpress-github-sync/build-status/master" rel="nofollow ugc"></a> <a href="https://scrutinizer-ci.com/g/mAAdhaTTah/wordpress-github-sync/?branch=master" rel="nofollow ugc"></a> <a href="https://scrutinizer-ci.com/g/mAAdhaTTah/wordpress-github-sync/?branch=master" rel="nofollow ugc"></a></p>
<p>Ever wish you could collaboratively author content for your WordPress site (or expose change history publicly and accept pull requests from your readers)?</p>
<p>Looking to tinker with Jekyll, but wish you could use WordPress’s best-of-breed web editing interface instead of Atom? (gasp!)</p>
<p>Well, now you can! Introducing <a href="https://github.com/mAAdhaTTah/wordpress-github-sync" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress  GitHub Sync</a>!</p>
<h4>WordPress  GitHub Sync does three things:</h4>
<ol>
<li>Allows content publishers to version their content in GitHub, exposing “who made what change when” to readers</li>
<li>Allows readers to submit proposed improvements to WordPress-served content via GitHub’s Pull Request model</li>
<li>Allows non-technical writers to draft and edit a Jekyll site in WordPress’s best-of-breed editing interface</li>
</ol>
<h4>WordPress  GitHub sync might be able to do some other cool things:</h4>
<ul>
<li>Allow teams to collaboratively write and edit posts using GitHub (e.g., pull requests, issues, comments)</li>
<li>Allow you to sync the content of two different WordPress installations via GitHub</li>
<li>Allow you to stage and preview content before “deploying” to your production server</li>
</ul>
<h4>How it works</h4>
<p>The sync action is based on two hooks:</p>
<ol>
<li>A per-post sync fired in response to WordPress’s <code>save_post</code> hook which pushes content to GitHub</li>
<li>A sync of all changed files triggered by GitHub’s <code>push</code> webhook (outbound API call)</li>
</ol>


WordPress  GitHub Sync

We've been using this plugin for almost a year to sync the Roots docs written in Markdown to GitHub.
This plugin is regularly maintained and updated, the author is very responsive and open to contributions, and it's reliable.
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Helps power the Roots docs

A WordPress plugin to sync content with a GitHub repository (or Jekyll site)

GitHub-Flavored Markdown Comments vs WordPress GitHub Sync