Disable Wordpress's native Gutenberg or TinyMCE editor in favor of a Markdown editor.
As of April 2026, Markup Markdown is a WordPress editor plugin with 2.0K+ active installations and a 5/5 rating from 11 reviews. It has been downloaded 49K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 6.6+ and PHP 7.2.0+. Available on WordPress.org since 2022. Download volume is stable this week. Support resolution rate: 0%. Top alternative: Elementor Website Builder – more than….
This plugin replaces the Gutenberg block editor (or the classic TinyMCE) on the edit screen with EasyMDE, a markdown editor based on CodeMirror, fine-tuned to work smoothly with the WordPress admin panels.
The content is saved with the markdown syntax in the database and is rendered on the frontend thanks to the Parsedown PHP library after being sanitized via WordPress native filters.
That’s pretty all you should know. It’s under active development, keep in touch and feel free to drop a line on the forum, to let a rating or even support me by buying a coffee !
my theme added some module needs gutenberg. sometimes i need those modules and sometimes i need markdown. is there some method to choose the editor before create an article?
This plugin returned 1000% of the joy of writing back into WordPress that I haven’t experienced since the change to Gutenberg. Thank you so much it’s exactly what I wanted my writing practice to feel like!
OMG, what an awesome plugin! It makes posting on WP an actual joy. I now wake up in the morning and say, “Good morning, honey. I’ll kiss you right after my first post using Markup Markdown. But don’t you worry, girl… I’ll be right back in a good mood when I do.”
My only gripe is that this review can’t be written in Markdown format because WordPress.org hasn’t installed Markup Markdown, yet. They should really fix that. 🤣
🤘🏾 Rock on!
Just a fact: all the main AI GPTs generate Markdown by default. If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em! I LOVE this plugin, as I can now create AI style websites on the WordPress platform. If you notice: all the main commercial AI sites have a similar “A.I. Style”. Which is – dark or light mode, a chat box, and the most important thing: Markdown. Anyway, I’m using this plugin. Great stuff!
My one nitpick – The plugin generates configuration files in wp-content. This is bad news and there is no reason for it. On many sites wp-content is publicly exposed to the internet. Anyway, this data should be move to site options in the database.
This is without a doubt the best damn markdown plugin there is.
I like to use Semantic HTML and Markdown together and this allows me to use it right inside the Editor with the appropriate controls. Markdown is great for things like codeblocks, much better than going with a plugin that you have to learn something new or use a separate interface for codeblocks.
Other markdown plugins only convert your markdown to HTML without actually letting you just drop it in the post. It is also a great way to allow less tech-savvy users to use a non-block editor without learning HTML. It is a win-win plugin that I highly recommend.
| WordPress | 6.6+ requiredTested up to 6.8.5 |
| PHP | 7.2.0+ required |
=3.25.1=
Bug fix:
– Updating cleaning rules
=3.25.0=
Bug fix:
– Nested lists can be generated with 2 or 4 indent spaces
Improvement:
– Possible to select the indent styles from the Layout settings page
Bug fix / Improvement:
– Adding missing classnames for tables for themes using Gutenberg styles
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