Floris-Jan

<p>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.</p>
<p><strong>NEW in 1.3.0: Professional Code Beautification</strong><br />
* Automatic code formatting and indentation for all supported languages<br />
* Professional copy buttons positioned as elegant tabs outside code blocks<br />
* Language-aware beautification (JavaScript, PHP, CSS, JSON, Bash)<br />
* Smart preservation of ASCII art and tree structures in copy-only blocks</p>
<p><strong>Core Features:</strong></p>
<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>
<p>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.</p>
<p><strong>Supported Markdown Syntax:</strong></p>
<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>
<p><strong>Advanced Code Block Syntax:</strong></p>
<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.

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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