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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 to render Markdown, with Prism.js for syntax highlighting.

Installation

This plugin is not available in the repository, Composer 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.

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

The plugin uses Paul Livingstone's 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' );