Ultimate Markdown – Markdown Editor, Importer, & Exporter

The description claims this exports to markdown, but that’s not entirely accurate. What it actually does is export documents to markdown … that you’ve already created in markdown.

UPDATE: Turns out it was the use of three dashes for an <hr> tag that caused the problem. Apparently that means something else in this markdown plugin. Changing it to “***” worked perfectly. Five stars now!

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I really wanted to like this plugin. Unfortunately, it has a fatal flaw. When I import a markdown file, it randomly skips chunks of the file. Can’t use it that way. If and when this gets fixed, I’ll update the review.

• This topic was modified 7 months ago by scott8035.

This review is for the UMD Pro paid version. I previously had good success with the free version and decided to tryout the personal paid version (for 1 site).

I am a retired Linux software developer who is learning how to develop websites (just for fun). So I am not the expert, but I can share my experience with the plugin.

I am currently using a static site generator that uses Markdown for its content. I really like creating/updating my content on my Mac, using the bbedit app. Coming from the Linux world, I also use vi a lot. WordPress offers a lot of interesting capabilities that I want to try out, but I must be able to edit my content offline, using Markdown.

I have research and tried several options for using Markdown with WordPress. So far, the UMD Pro plugin has proved to be the best option for me. The plugin support is excellent! As a former developer, I really appreciate the support. I always receive a quick, detailed response to my questions or comments.

The plugin feature that I use the most is the post/page sidebar Markdown import. I have been able to import my posts perfectly, after setting the Front Matter to match the UMD Pro front matter requirements.

I am currently using my staging site to port my current static website to WordPress. I am also learning how to use WordPress. The UMD Pro Markdown plugin is saving me a lot of time. And it’s enabling me to create/edit my content on my Mac.

Free version has no useful capabilities, it is a fake plugin that just advertises the paid version. As such I feel it should not be here.

The Pro version of Ultimate Markdown lets you export all your WordPress posts and pages to single Markdown files in one go. Great for when you want a backup of all your articles in .md format.

I also use it to export single posts to Markdown after I update them in WordPress. This works great as well.(I have not used the import option.)

Also, as other have said as well, the developer is very responsive and attentive.

Thanks for a great plugin, Danilo!