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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

No release zip yet. The repository archive installs, but the folder name will carry the branch suffix and updates will not flow:

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

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.