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Tiny Markdown Editor

A simple makdown editor for WordPress. This replaces both the classic and block editors to a simple textarea editor with no controls or TinyMCE buttons and no preview.

by Benito Lopez · github.com/benitolopez/tiny-markdown-editor · website

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Install

Download source zip No release zip yet

This is the repository archive. It installs, but the folder name will carry the branch suffix and updates will not flow.

Install straight from GitHub with WP-CLI:

wp plugin install https://github.com/benitolopez/tiny-markdown-editor/archive/refs/heads/main.zip

No built-in updater. New versions won't appear under Dashboard → Updates. Install new releases yourself, or let Git Updater track the repository.

Readme github.com/benitolopez/tiny-markdown-editor ↗

A WordPress plugin that replaces the block and classic editors with a plain textarea. Markdown is converted to HTML on output.

Why this exists

I built this for my (upcoming) own blog. I wanted to write posts in markdown without the overhead of Gutenberg or TinyMCE. It does what I need and nothing more.

What it does

Disables the block editor
Disables the visual mode in the classic editor
Converts markdown to HTML when displaying content
Uses Parsedown for markdown parsing
Disables block editor scripts and styles

Supported markdown

Basic stuff only, not aiming to support every markdown extension out there.