Adam Alexandersson

<p>Worddown is a powerful WordPress plugin that enables you to export your pages and posts to markdown files, making them perfect for integration with AI chatbots and other markdown-based systems.</p>
<h4>Key Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Export pages and posts to markdown files</li>
<li>Support for custom page builders (ACF Flexible Content, Elementor, etc.)</li>
<li>REST API endpoints for programmatic access</li>
<li>WP-CLI commands for automation</li>
<li>Multilingual support</li>
<li>Background export mode for large sites</li>
<li>Customizable HTML content filters</li>
</ul>
<h4>Export Methods</h4>
<ol>
<li>WordPress Admin Dashboard</li>
<li>WP-CLI Commands</li>
<li>REST API Endpoints</li>
</ol>
<h4>WP-CLI Support</h4>
<p>Export your content directly from the command line:</p>
<pre><code>wp worddown export
</code></pre>
<p>For large sites, use background mode:</p>
<pre><code>wp worddown export --background
</code></pre>
<h4>REST API</h4>
<p>Access export functionality programmatically through REST API endpoints:</p>
<ul>
<li>GET /wp-json/worddown/v1/files – List all exported markdown files</li>
<li>GET /wp-json/worddown/v1/files/{post_id} – Get specific file content</li>
<li>POST /wp-json/worddown/v1/export – Trigger export</li>
</ul>
<h4>Custom HTML Content Filters</h4>
<p>Customize your markdown output using WordPress filters:</p>
<pre><code>add_filter('worddown_custom_html_content', function($content, $post_id, $post_type) {
    if ($post_type === 'page') {
        $content .= '<div>My custom HTML for page ' . $post_id . '</div>';
    }
    return $content;
}, 10, 3);
</code></pre>
<h4>Available Translations</h4>
<ul>
<li>English</li>
<li>Swedish (sv_SE)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Development</h3>
<p>For development instructions and advanced usage, please visit the <a href="https://github.com/adamalexandersson/worddown" rel="nofollow ugc">plugin repository</a>.</p>
<h4>Build Process</h4>
<p>The plugin uses Vite for asset compilation. Development requirements:</p>
<ul>
<li>Node.js 16.0 or higher</li>
<li>npm 8.0 or higher</li>
</ul>


Worddown

Export WordPress pages and posts to markdown files for AI chatbots with support for custom page builders and multilingual content.

Selvakumar Duraipandian

<p>Markdown for AI Agents is a lightweight WordPress plugin that enables HTTP content negotiation for your site’s content. When a client (like an AI agent or a custom script) requests a page with the <code>Accept: text/markdown</code> header, the plugin intercepts the request and returns a clean, structured Markdown representation of the post or page content.</p>
<p>This is ideal for AI crawlers, RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) systems, and non-browser clients that prefer machine-friendly text over complex HTML.</p>
<p><strong>Important note:</strong> This plugin is primarily a developer/integration tool. Human visitors browsing your site will never see any difference — the Markdown output is only served when explicitly requested via the <code>Accept: text/markdown</code> HTTP header. Normal browser requests always receive the standard HTML page.</p>
<p><strong>Key Features:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Automatically detects <code>Accept: text/markdown</code> headers.</li>
<li>Converts HTML content to clean Markdown using the League HTMLToMarkdown library.</li>
<li>Strips away theme layout, navigation, headers, footers, and sidebars — serving only the main content.</li>
<li>Adds useful HTTP response headers: <code>Content-Type: text/markdown</code>, <code>Vary: Accept</code>, and <code>X-Markdown-Word-Count</code>.</li>
<li>Respects WordPress visibility rules and filters.</li>
<li>No configuration required — works out of the box for posts, pages, and custom post types.</li>
</ul>
<h3>How It Works</h3>
<p>This plugin uses a standard web technique called <strong>HTTP content negotiation</strong>. The same URL on your site can serve different representations of the same content depending on what the client asks for:</p>
<ul>
<li>A regular browser sends <code>Accept: text/html</code> <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> receives your normal HTML page.</li>
<li>An AI agent sends <code>Accept: text/markdown</code> <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> receives a clean Markdown version of the same page.</li>
</ul>
<p>No extra URLs, no duplicate content, no configuration needed. The plugin hooks into WordPress’s <code>template_redirect</code> action, detects the <code>Accept</code> header, captures the rendered HTML, converts it to Markdown, and returns it with appropriate headers.</p>
<h3>Why Markdown for AI Agents?</h3>
<p>When building RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) applications or AI pipelines that ingest web content, HTML is extremely noisy. A typical WordPress page contains thousands of tokens worth of HTML tags, inline styles, navigation menus, scripts, and layout markup — none of which carries meaning for an AI model.</p>
<p>Serving clean Markdown instead can reduce token consumption by up to 60%, which means:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Lower API costs</strong> — fewer tokens ingested when loading pages into vector stores or LLM pipelines.</li>
<li><strong>Faster processing</strong> — less text for the model to parse, filter, and discard.</li>
<li><strong>Better retrieval accuracy</strong> — higher signal-to-noise ratio improves the quality of RAG results.</li>
<li><strong>Simpler pipelines</strong> — no need for custom HTML stripping logic on the client side; the plugin handles it server-side.</li>
</ul>
<p>Any AI agent, crawler, or ingestion script that sends <code>Accept: text/markdown</code> in its request header will automatically receive the clean Markdown version — no extra URLs, no separate endpoints, no changes to your content workflow.</p>


Markdown for AI Agents

Serve clean Markdown versions of WordPress content to AI agents using HTTP content negotiation.

Worddown vs Markdown for AI Agents