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.

Terry L.

<p>An all-in-on WordPress Markdown Plugin provides a variety of features such as Markdown editor, live-preview, image-paste, HTML-to-Markdown helper, and more..</p>
<p>Read detailed document, please visit <a href="https://github.com/terrylinooo/githuber-md" rel="nofollow ugc">https://github.com/terrylinooo/githuber-md</a>.</p>
<h3>Demo</h3>
<p><iframe loading="lazy" title="WordPress Markdown Plugin - WP Githuber MD - DEMO" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/it1noNCTXa4?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
<p>The Video shows you the following steps:</p>
<ol>
<li>Convert HTML to Markdown by using <code>HTML to Markdown</code> tool.</li>
<li>Cut up a selection area of an image and copy it from Photoshop, then paste it to Markdown Editor.</li>
<li>Click “Update” button to save Markdown to <code>post_content_filtered</code> and save HTML to <code>post_content</code> (it is what you will see in result).</li>
<li>View the result.</li>
</ol>
<h3>How it works</h3>
<ol>
<li>WP Githuber MD will save your Markdown content into <code>wp_posts</code>.<code>post_content_filtered</code>.</li>
<li>Parse the Markdown to HTML, save the parsed HTML content into <code>wp_posts</code>.<code>post_content</code>.</li>
</ol>
<p>This plugin will detect your Markdown content and decide what scripts will be loaded, to avoid loading unnecessary scripts.<br />
For example, if you enabled Syntax highlight, you have to update your post again to take effects.</p>
<h3>Suggestions</h3>
<p>The better situation to use this plugin is you just started a new blog.</p>
<p>If you’re planning to use this plugin in an existing blog, be sure to:</p>
<ul>
<li>Turn off other Markdown plugins, because the similar plugins might do the same things when submitting your posts, may have some syntax conversion issues between Markdown and HTML.</li>
<li>My suggestion is to turn off revision and auto-save, there are options in setting page.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://markdown-editor.github.io/" rel="nofollow ugc">Markdown editor</a>.</li>
<li>Live preview.</li>
<li>Spell check.</li>
<li>Enable / disable Markdown for single post.</li>
<li>Support Gutenberg editor.</li>
<li>Support custom post types.</li>
<li>Support Markdown extra syntax.</li>
<li>HTML-to-Markdown tool.</li>
<li>Image copy & paste (support uploading to Imgur.com and sm.ms)</li>
<li>Highlight code syntax. (prism.js or hightlight.js)</li>
<li>Flow chart.</li>
<li>KaTex.</li>
<li>Sequence diagram.</li>
<li>Mermaid.</li>
<li>MathJax.</li>
<li>Emoji.</li>
<li>Github flavored Markdown task list.</li>
<li>Fetch remote images.</li>
<li>Keyword suggestion tool.</li>
<li>and more…</li>
</ul>
<h3>Translations</h3>
<p>English (en_US) by <a href="https://colocal.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Colocal</a>.<br />
Traditional Chinese (zh_TW) by <a href="https://www.alexclassroom.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Alex Lion</a>.<br />
Simplified Chinese (zh_CN) by <a href="https://terryl.in/zh/" rel="nofollow ugc">Terry Lin</a>.</p>
<h3>Copyright</h3>
<p>WP Githuber MD, Copyright 2018-2020 TerryL.in<br />
WP Githuber MD is distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL</p>
<p>This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify<br />
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by<br />
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or<br />
(at your option) any later version.</p>
<p>This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,<br />
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of<br />
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the<br />
GNU General Public License for more details.</p>


WP Githuber MD – WordPress Markdown Editor

I would love to give five stars but the developer decided that all URL text should be interpreted. It’s not the way Markdown is working and it breaks the very convenient feature that convert Youtube URL to video in WP. And all embeds feature I presume.

Not compatible with useful WP features


Undoubtedly the best plugin available, and well done too. However, some buttons (e.g. search, h5-h6, clear) present in other similar plugins were missing, so much so that I had to insert them manually, not with little trouble. Therefore, the inclusion of an option to choose the buttons to insert in the toolbar is welcome, or even just a filter that allows you to do so from the theme's functions.php. :-)



Another thing missing is the preview of the highlight themes for code. But it is certainly a minor aspect.


Best plugin but...

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