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goblindegook/wp-markdown-g
==========================

Markdown and Prism support for WordPress.

1.3.1(10y ago)1170GPL-2.0+PHPPHP >=5.3.0

Since Jul 5Pushed 10y agoCompare

[ Source](https://github.com/goblindegook/wp-markdown-g)[ Packagist](https://packagist.org/packages/goblindegook/wp-markdown-g)[ Docs](https://github.com/goblindegook/wp-markdown)[ RSS](/packages/goblindegook-wp-markdown-g/feed)WikiDiscussions master Synced 1mo ago

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Markdown for WordPress
======================

[](#markdown-for-wordpress)

A plugin that adds Markdown support and code syntax highlighting to WordPress.

I developed this for personal use, and I offer it as-is, with no intention to please any crowds. There are many Markdown plugins in the repository and I encourage you to try those first, I only created this because none of them gave me exactly what I needed.

This plugin uses [PHP Markdown](https://michelf.ca/projects/php-markdown/) to render Markdown, with [Prism.js](http://prismjs.com) for syntax highlighting.

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

This plugin is not available in the repository, [Composer](https://getcomposer.org) is the recommended way to install it:

```
$ composer require goblindegook/wp-markdown-g
```

If you want to know more about using Composer with WordPress, there's [a good introduction at the Roots project site](https://roots.io/using-composer-with-wordpress/).

Syntax Highlighting
-------------------

[](#syntax-highlighting)

The plugin is bundled with Prism.js to highlight code in the following languages:

- Bash
- C/C++
- CoffeeScript
- CSS
- Git
- Handlebars
- HTML
- HTTP
- INI
- Java
- JavaScript (and JSX)
- LESS
- Makefile
- Markdown
- Objective-C
- Perl
- PHP
- Python
- Ruby
- Scala
- SCSS
- SQL
- Swift
- Twig
- TypeScript
- YAML

### Overriding the colour scheme

[](#overriding-the-colour-scheme)

The plugin uses Paul Livingstone's [Okaidia](http://prismjs.com/index.html?theme=prism-okaidia) theme by default. If you need to override Okaidia on your theme (or in some other plugin), I recommend you dequeue ours first:

```
wp_dequeue_style( 'wp-markdown-prism' );
```

###  Health Score

29

—

LowBetter than 59% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity12

Limited adoption so far

Community6

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity65

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% 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 ~23 days

Total

11

Last Release

3740d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/035c98a3fbc2961e88522dae86521b6bb114624800e342a317b66ab270fc4baa?d=identicon)[goblindegook](/maintainers/goblindegook)

---

Top Contributors

[![goblindegook](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/285497?v=4)](https://github.com/goblindegook "goblindegook (7 commits)")

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Tags

pluginwordpressmarkdownsyntaxformattingprism

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