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Simple Markdown is a lightweight WordPress plugin that adds a custom Gutenberg block for rendering Markdown content directly in your posts and pages. Perfect for developers, writers, and anyone who prefers writing in Markdown format.
NEW in 1.3.0: Professional Code Beautification 
* Automatic code formatting and indentation for all supported languages 
* Professional copy buttons positioned as elegant tabs outside code blocks 
* Language-aware beautification (JavaScript, PHP, CSS, JSON, Bash) 
* Smart preservation of ASCII art and tree structures in copy-only blocks
Core Features:
<ul>
<li>Custom Gutenberg block for Markdown content</li>
<li>Support for common Markdown syntax:
<ul>
<li>Headers (H1-H6)</li>
<li>Bold and italic text</li>
<li>Inline code and code blocks with copy functionality</li>
<li>Links</li>
<li>Unordered and ordered lists</li>
<li>Blockquotes</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Professional code block rendering with:
<ul>
<li>Automatic beautification and proper indentation</li>
<li>One-click copy functionality with visual feedback</li>
<li>Language labels (JavaScript, PHP, CSS, JSON, Bash)</li>
<li>Tight line spacing optimized for code readability</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Clean HTML output with semantic markup</li>
<li>Theme-resistant styling with robust CSS overrides</li>
<li>Easy to use interface</li>
</ul>
This is the core version with all essential markdown features plus professional code handling. A Pro version with syntax highlighting and other advanced features will be available in the future.
Supported Markdown Syntax:
<ul>
<li><code># Header 1</code> through <code>###### Header 6</code></li>
<li><code>**bold text**</code> and <code>*italic text*</code></li>
<li><code>`inline code`</code> and code blocks with triple backticks</li>
<li><code>[link text](URL)</code> for links</li>
<li><code>- item</code> for unordered lists</li>
<li><code>1. item</code> for ordered lists</li>
<li><code>> quote</code> for blockquotes</li>
</ul>
Advanced Code Block Syntax:
<ul>
<li><code>```javascript copy</code> – Beautified JavaScript with copy button</li>
<li><code>```php copy</code> – Beautified PHP with copy button</li>
<li><code>```css copy</code> – Beautified CSS with copy button</li>
<li><code>```json copy</code> – Beautified JSON with copy button</li>
<li><code>```bash copy</code> – Bash commands with copy button</li>
<li><code>```copy</code> – Copy button without beautification (preserves ASCII art)</li>
<li><code>```</code> – Plain code block (no beautification, no copy button)</li>
</ul>

Simple Markdown

Simple and fast plugin to render markdown with a custom Gutenberg block. Professional code beautification and copy functionality included.

Rich Tabor

<h4>Editor-friendly blocks</h4>
While diving into this project I’ve explored a few areas where I can improve my personal publishing flow. The first was bringing editor comments into Gutenberg with my <a href="https://richtabor.com/markdown-comment/?utm_source=wp-org&utm_medium=todo-list-block&utm_campaign=readme" rel="nofollow ugc">Markdown Comment block</a>, and this Todo List block.
Todo List is a simple, editor-only block designed to quickly add tasks directly within the editor.
Todo List makes it easy to keep track of those tasks, all in the context of a particular post. You may also use it to add a publishing checklist to the post, such as using a headline analyzer, adding featured images, adding social images, etc.
<h4>Transforms</h4>
I’m a huge fan of blocks transforms and how they improve the WordPress publishing experience. Being able to morph a block into another, without loosing content/attributes, is a powerful way to level-up editing.
That saying, you may transform paragraph text, list items and even editorial comments added by Markdown Comment directly into actionable todos, just like you can in the iOS Notes app for example. You may even take multiple blocks of the sort and convert them all into a single todo list.
Todo List also supports block prefixes, which are keyboard shortcuts in a sense, to toss blocks in the editor with a few keystrokes. Adding <code>[]</code>, or <code>-[]</code> plus the <code>space</code> key will add a Todo List to the page.

Todo List Block

It works as advertised, I just wish there were some more features such as:

- Font size & font color options (per list item).
- Option to also display on the front end.
- Option to indent each list item, so we can have "category" items. This (maybe) would  not be necessary if we had the choice to change the font color and size per list item.

On the other hand, this plugin as it is, is still very useful, and the zip file is only 16kb, so adding things in and multiplying the file size by a a lot, may be it won't be worth it.

Nevertheless, I am sticking to my 5 star rating for this.

Good Start.

Add todo lists to posts that render only within the block editor.

Simple Markdown vs Todo List Block