Description
Import markdown and markdown-extra documents to WordPress posts and pages, output as HTML, parse and save YAML front matter to post_meta, tags, and (optionally) the posts tables.
- Built on MetaParsedown, Parsedown and Symfony YAML components
- Supports docments in both Markdown and Markdown-Extra formats
- Easy to use
- Lighweight
- Optionally style markdown code snippets for syntax highlighting
- Maintain cannonical markdown documents through your favourite git repository
- Works with both Gutenberg and classic wordpress editors
How to use
Simply add the metaparsedown shortcode to your post, identifying the markdown document in the url attribute:
[metaparsedown url='https://gitlab.com/pagerange/docs/raw/master/markdown/test_markdown.md' /]
Optionally, parse and save markdown YAML front matter to the post_meta table by adding the meta attribute.
[metaparsedown url='https://gitlab.com/pagerange/docs/raw/master/markdown/test_markdown.md' meta="true" /]
Optionally, overwrite the post’s ‘post_title’ and ‘post_excerpt’ fields with YAML values by adding the overwrite attribute.
[metaparsedown url='https://gitlab.com/pagerange/docs/raw/master/markdown/test_markdown.md' meta="true" overwrite="true" /]<h3>Support</h3>
Add issues at https://github.com/pagerange/metaparsedown-wordpress/issues.
Donate
Donate via Paypal at http://pagerange.com/projects/wordpress/metaparsedown
Installation
Install directly from WordPress plugin repository.
Or, download the ZIP file from https://github.com/pagerange/metaparsedown-wordpress/archive/master.zip
FAQ
- How can I add syntax hilighting to my markdown documents?
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You can do one of two things:
- Add and enqueue a syntax highlighting Javascript package.
or…
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Use MetaParsedown’s built-in syntax highlighting using the microlight js highlight package. Simply add the following code to your theme’s
functions.phpfile:if(function_exists(‘metaparsedown_plugins_url’)) {
function metaparsedown_load_scripts() { wp_enqueue_style('metaparsedown', metaparsedown_plugins_url('/css/style.css')); wp_enqueue_script('microlight', metaparsedown_plugins_url('/js/microlight.js'), [], null, true); wp_enqueue_script('metaparsedown', metaparsedown_plugins_url('/js/script.js'), array('microlight'), null, true); } add_action('wp_enqueue_scripts', 'metaparsedown_load_scripts', 10);}
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Contributors and Developers
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Change Log
v1.0.0
- Version 1.0 released