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condenast-spain/parsedown-extra
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An extension of Parsedown that adds support for Markdown Extra.

0.7.8(6y ago)01.0k1MITPHP

Since Jun 19Pushed 6y ago4 watchersCompare

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Parsedown Extra
---------------

[](#parsedown-extra)

An extension of [Parsedown](http://parsedown.org) that adds support for [Markdown Extra](https://michelf.ca/projects/php-markdown/extra/).

[See Demo](http://parsedown.org/extra/)

### Installation

[](#installation)

Include both `Parsedown.php` and `ParsedownExtra.php` or install [the composer package](https://packagist.org/packages/condenast-spain/parsedown-extra).

### Example

[](#example)

```
$Extra = new ParsedownExtra();

echo $Extra->text('# Header {.sth}'); # prints: Header
```

### Questions

[](#questions)

**Who uses Parsedown Extra?**

[October CMS](http://octobercms.com/), [Bolt CMS](http://bolt.cm/), [Kirby CMS](http://getkirby.com/), [Grav CMS](http://getgrav.org/), [Statamic CMS](http://www.statamic.com/) and more.

###  Health Score

31

—

LowBetter than 68% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity15

Limited adoption so far

Community19

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity63

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 58.1% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~90 days

Recently: every ~106 days

Total

23

Last Release

2367d ago

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

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Tags

parsermarkdownmarkdown-extraparsedown

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