Wasseem Khayrattee

This is a simple plugin to help you write posts or pages in plain-text Markdown syntax. And even allowing plaint-text Markdown for comments as well. It will also switch-off the Visual Editor, as you don’t need distractions. This plugin sits on top of a giant’s shoulder, namely Jetpack.
This plugin is also installable via composer, see: https://github.com/7php/MarkItDownWordpress
<h3>Roadmap</h3>
<ul>
<li>By default, toggle the checkbox to true for Settings > Writing > ‘Use Markdown for posts and pages’</li>
<li>By default, toggle the checkbox to true for Settings > Discussion > ‘Use Markdown for comments’</li>
<li>In plain-tex editor mode, remove the short-formatting buttons, e.g [b, i, link, b-quote, del].. etc. Make the editor, distraction free.</li>
<li>Make an effort to provide Markdown buttons for the equivalent of [b, i, link, b-quote, del], just like bbcodes.</li>
</ul>

Mark It Down WordPress!

I just replaced JP Markdown (which is abandoned by now) with this plugin. The switch was easy and painless: 


Install this plugin and activate it
Deactivate JP Markdown
Set the flags under "Settings => Writing" and "Settings => Comments"
Done!


The posts written in Markdown are still written in markdown and still rendered as HTML as before, so a smooth transition from my POV.

Thanks!

Works as replacement for the abandoned JP Markdown

Helping you write posts/pages in plain-text Markdown syntax, while switching-off Visual Editor. It sits on the shoulders of a giant, namely Jetpack.

Sebastian Krysmanski

BlogText (<a href="http://blogtext.mayastudios.com" rel="nofollow ugc">http://blogtext.mayastudios.com</a>) is a plugin for WordPress that allows you to use a simple wiki-like syntax (based on the Creole wiki syntax) to write your posts and pages. This syntax is easy-to-learn and fast-to-type. The goal behind BlogText is that you don’t need to write HTML anymore to achieve the desired text layout.
The following list lists some of the markups supported by BlogText. For a more complete list, see <a href="http://blogtext.mayastudios.com/syntax/" rel="nofollow ugc">BlogText’s syntax description page</a> (which is written entirely in BlogText syntax and demonstrates BlogText’s capabilities).
Supported markup:
<ul>
<li>Basic text formatting such as bold, italics, underlining, and strike-through</li>
<li>Lists</li>
<li>Tables</li>
<li>Internal and external links</li>
<li>Headings</li>
<li>Table of contents</li>
<li>Preformatted text and code blocks with syntax highlighting</li>
</ul>
BlogText also integrates itself into <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/classic-editor/" rel="ugc">WordPress’ classic editor</a> (which is the recommended way to write BlogText) by providing its own buttons (to create BlogText syntax), media browser integration, and help links. This make writing posts with BlogText even easier.
For more information, see <a href="http://blogtext.mayastudios.com/features/" rel="nofollow ugc">BlogText’s feature list</a>

BlogText

BlogText is a plugin for WordPress that adds a simple wiki-like syntax to WordPress and enriches it with a good Wordpress editor integration.

Mark It Down WordPress! vs BlogText