Ultimate Markdown – Markdown Editor, Importer, & Exporter

Ultimate Markdown is a plugin for WordPress that allows you to create WordPress posts with the popular Markdown syntax.

Specifically, after installing the plugin, you will be able to:

• Create posts from Markdown files or Markdown documents created with the plugin.
• Convert Markdown text to blocks directly in the post editor.
• Create and manage Markdown documents in a dedicated plugin menu.
• Import Markdown files into WordPress.
• Create archives of Markdown files from the Markdown documents created with the plugin.

The plugin integrates with both the Block Editor and the Classic Editor. The Markdown tools are available in the post editor sidebar when using the Block Editor and as meta boxes when using the Classic Editor.

Pro Version

We distribute the Pro version of this plugin that includes more export options, REST API, additional Markdown parsers, document categories, and more.

Additional post sidebar sections

The plugin adds the following sections to the post sidebar.

Import Markdown

This section allows you to generate the blocks of a post from an uploaded Markdown file.

Load Markdown

Use this feature to create the blocks of a post from a Markdown document previously created with the plugin.

Insert Markdown

With this section, you can instantly transform Markdown text to blocks.

Dedicated plugin menus

Documents

This menu includes a Markdown editor with an HTML preview section. In addition, you will find functionalities to create, edit, duplicate or delete your Markdown documents.

Import

Import one or more Markdown files into the plugin with the upload form provided in this menu.

Export

With this menu, you can generate Markdown files from the Markdown documents stored in the plugin.

Supported Markdown syntax

The plugin can convert Markdown text to HTML using the following parsers:

• Marked, a high-performance JavaScript Markdown parser and compiler.
• League\CommonMark, a PHP Markdown parser that supports both the CommonMark and GitHub Flavored Markdown variants.

Front Matter

The plugin supports Front Matter key-value pairs provided in the YAML language. With this feature, you can configure specific post settings by providing their values at the beginning of the Markdown document.

Please see the plugin documentation for more information on the available Front Matter keys and practical examples.

Credits

This plugin includes the following third-party libraries:

• DOMPurify licensed under the Apache License Version 2.0
• Marked licensed under the MIT License
• League\CommonMark licensed under the BSD 3-Clause License
• Composer licensed under the MIT License
• FrontYAML licensed under the MIT License