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Import Markdown – Versatile Markdown Importer
Import Markdown – Versatile Markdown Importer

Import Markdown – Versatile Markdown Importer

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Import Markdown lets you easily generate posts based on Markdown files.

Ultimate Markdown

We also run a WordPress plugin that integrates Markdown in the block editor. For more information, check out Ultimate Markdown.

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Speed up your workflow with Markdown

Markdown is a lightweight and easy-to-use syntax for creating HTML. Let’s see some of the advantages of using this emerging format with the Import Markdown plugin:

  • Markdown is extremely easy to use, the tokens available with the Markdown syntax can be learned in less than 30 minutes.
  • Markdown translates to perfect HTML. No missing closing tags, no improperly nested tags, no blocks left without containers.
  • The Markdown files are simple text files editable with any text or code editor, on any operative system.
  • The Markdown files are extremely lightweight text files which don’t need to be compressed to be transported or sent on the internet.
  • Writing with the Markdown syntax requires and average of 25% less characters than writing HTML.
  • You can stop thinking about HTML and focus on what’s important, the content.
  • You can start writing your posts in your personal distraction free editor, like a simple text/code editor customized for your needs or one of the specific Markdown editors available on the market.
  • Programmers no longer need to manually convert to HTML entities the problematic characters present in code snippets. The Markdown parsers do this job for you.
  • With five included parsers and three Markdown variations supported, this plugin can certainly satisfy even a Markdown expert who makes use of any possibility provided by the syntax.

Five Markdown parsers and three Markdown flavors

At this time there isn’t a clearly defined Markdown standard and different implementations are currently used on the web. For this reason this plugin doesn’t force you to adopt a specific Markdown syntax, but instead allows you to select your favorite parser among the five available.

In the Import Markdown options you will be able to select one of these five parsers. In this list for each parser you have a reference to the supported syntax.

Parsedown (GitHub)
Parsedown Extra (Extra)
Cebe Markdown (Traditional)
Cebe Markdown GitHub (GitHub)
Cebe Markdown Extra (Extra)

Credits

This plugin makes use of the following resources:

Legal Note

The name “Markdown” is used with the only purpose of making clear to the users the type of syntax supported by this plugin. You should not assume that the original author of the “Markdown” syntax, defined in 2004 with this post, endorses this plugin.