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markdown-on-save

Markdown on Save

Allows you to compose content in Markdown on a per-item basis. The markdown version is stored separately, so you can deactivate this plugin any time.

formatting markdown
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Source Evidence

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complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.87
[Plugin: Markdown on Save] Converting Posts from Former Markdown Plugin

[Plugin: Markdown on Save] Converting Posts from Former Markdown Plugin: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check formatting publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
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[Plugin: Markdown on Save] Converting Posts from Former Markdown Plugin Before installing this plugin, I was using a different Markdown plugin.
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.86
[Plugin: Markdown on Save] Markdown for comments ?

[Plugin: Markdown on Save] Markdown for comments ?: users show missing feature, support, migration pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check formatting publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
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Hello, your plugin lacks a feature I liked with Fortin’s plugin: the ability to use Markdown language in the comments.
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.81
Update markdown-extra.php from verion 1.2.6 to 1.2.8

Update markdown-extra.php from verion 1.2.6 to 1.2.8: users show compatibility, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check formatting publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
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Update markdown-extra.php from verion 1.2.6 to 1.2.8 Hi guys, currently Markdown on Save uses markdown-extra 1.2.6 (1) Is it possible to update to PHP Markdown Extra 1.2.8 ( http://michelf.ca/projects/php-markdown/classic/ )?
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.75
Markdown Button Missing after Upgrade to WP 4.4

Markdown Button Missing after Upgrade to WP 4.4: users show bugs, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check formatting publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
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Markdown Button Missing after Upgrade to WP 4.4 Thanks for the great plugin.
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.75
Bug: Footnotes do not work correctly on front page of WordPress blogs

Bug: Footnotes do not work correctly on front page of WordPress blogs: users show bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check formatting publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
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Bug: Footnotes do not work correctly on front page of WordPress blogs In Michel Fortin’s PHP Markdown Extra, footnotes link to something like http://www.chickensinenvelopes.net/#fn:978.1 on the main page, with the ‘978’ denoting the post and the ‘1’ denoting the number of the footnote.
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.75
Does not play well with hard-wrapped paragraphs

Does not play well with hard-wrapped paragraphs: users show missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check formatting publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
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Does not play well with hard-wrapped paragraphs When formatting a post with hard-wrapped paragraphs, either wordpress or the plugin adds a line-break after each line-wrap, leading to an excessively ragged right margin, or, worse, orphaned words that have overflowed right before the line break (especially prevalent in blockquotes).
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.75
PHP Markdown's issue with the way WordPress processes text

PHP Markdown's issue with the way WordPress processes text: users show bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check formatting publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
Proof Blocked card complete content publishing operations Evidence linked to opportunity
PHP Markdown's issue with the way WordPress processes text PHP Markdown has a small problem with the way WordPress processes text, which I noticed in the upcoming WordPress flagship theme Twenty Thirteen .
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.75
Restoring an older vesion switch back in HTML

Restoring an older vesion switch back in HTML: users show compatibility, migration pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check formatting publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
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Everything works fine except the new versionning system introduced in wordpress 3.7.
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.75
The plugin does not have a valid header.

The plugin does not have a valid header.: users show bugs, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check formatting publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
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Getting error “The plugin does not have a valid header.” when activating plugin.
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.74
[Plugin: Markdown on Save] Link Titles

[Plugin: Markdown on Save] Link Titles: users show bugs pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check formatting publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
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[Plugin: Markdown on Save] Link Titles Links formatted with a title are not being parsed properly.

Competitor Context

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Advanced Editor Tools weak incumbent · intel 81.3 · weakness 68.4
weak incumbent
6 unresolved support thread(s) 27 collected complaint signal(s) bugs compatibility 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect gutenberg layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
source 1 source 2
Advanced Excerpt weak incumbent · intel 80.2 · weakness 70.8
weak incumbent
stale update history 23 collected complaint signal(s) compatibility support 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check formatting publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
source 1 source 2
WP Super Edit praise owner · intel 79.7 · weakness 71.9
praise owner
stale update history below-average rating missing feature setup 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure
source 1 source 2
Raw HTML weak incumbent · intel 78.5 · weakness 69.1
weak incumbent
stale update history 22 collected complaint signal(s) support missing feature 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: developers, agencies, and technical site owners · Wedge: preflight html code changes, compatibility risks, rollback paths, and debug evidence
source 1 source 2
Advanced Image Styles praise owner · intel 76.1 · weakness 66.8
praise owner
stale update history 24 collected complaint signal(s) missing feature bugs 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check image publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
source 1 source 2
Toggle wpautop praise owner · intel 75.6 · weakness 66.3
praise owner
stale update history 10 collected complaint signal(s) compatibility missing feature 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect editor layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
source 1 source 2
WP-Markdown praise owner · intel 75.1 · weakness 65.8
praise owner
stale update history 18 collected complaint signal(s) bugs compatibility 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: developers, agencies, and technical site owners · Wedge: preflight code changes, compatibility risks, rollback paths, and debug evidence
source 1 source 2
Advanced Rich Text Tools for Gutenberg praise owner · intel 73.5 · weakness 64.3
praise owner
stale update history 18 collected complaint signal(s) missing feature support 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect gutenberg layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
source 1 source 2

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Collected Signals

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praise Simple. Works. As advertised. (5 stars) review · 2026-05-07T18:59:01+00:00 · medium severity · formatting

Simple. Works. As advertised.: users praise easy, reliable, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: Simple.
easy reliable content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check formatting publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
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praise Really good idea (5 stars) review · 2025-04-24T20:27:51+00:00 · medium severity · formatting

Really good idea: praise conversation with limited structured signal.

Evidence: Really good idea You have the advantage of using Markdown rather than the horrible Gutenberg block system while also being able to let someone else edit in the Classic Editor. You have the advantage of using Markdown rather than the horrible Gutenberg block system while also being able to let someone else edit in the Classic Editor.
content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check formatting publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
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complaint Markdown Button Missing after Upgrade to WP 4.4 support · 2015-12-30T15:55:55+00:00 · medium severity · formatting

Markdown Button Missing after Upgrade to WP 4.4: users show bugs, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Markdown Button Missing after Upgrade to WP 4.4 Thanks for the great plugin.
bugs missing feature quality content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check formatting publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
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complaint Compatibility with WordPress Liveblog? support · 2014-08-18T19:21:39+00:00 · medium severity · formatting

Compatibility with WordPress Liveblog?: users show compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Compatibility with WordPress Liveblog?
compatibility content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check formatting publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
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praise Works great (5 stars) review · 2014-04-04T02:29:30+00:00 · medium severity · formatting

Works great: users praise reliable, quality, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: Works great Works perfectly, thanks Mark!
reliable quality content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check formatting publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
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complaint Update markdown-extra.php from verion 1.2.6 to 1.2.8 support · 2014-02-05T19:46:23+00:00 · medium severity · formatting

Update markdown-extra.php from verion 1.2.6 to 1.2.8: users show compatibility, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Update markdown-extra.php from verion 1.2.6 to 1.2.8 Hi guys, currently Markdown on Save uses markdown-extra 1.2.6 (1) Is it possible to update to PHP Markdown Extra 1.2.8 ( http://michelf.ca/projects/php-markdown/classic/ )?
compatibility missing feature support content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check formatting publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
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complaint Restoring an older vesion switch back in HTML support · 2014-01-06T17:03:14+00:00 · medium severity · formatting

Restoring an older vesion switch back in HTML: users show compatibility, migration pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Everything works fine except the new versionning system introduced in wordpress 3.7.
compatibility migration reliable value content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check formatting publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
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complaint The plugin does not have a valid header. support · 2013-07-29T13:41:10+00:00 · medium severity · formatting

The plugin does not have a valid header.: users show bugs, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Getting error “The plugin does not have a valid header.” when activating plugin.
bugs setup content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check formatting publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
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complaint Bug: Footnotes do not work correctly on front page of WordPress blogs support · 2013-06-24T08:49:07+00:00 · medium severity · formatting

Bug: Footnotes do not work correctly on front page of WordPress blogs: users show bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Bug: Footnotes do not work correctly on front page of WordPress blogs In Michel Fortin’s PHP Markdown Extra, footnotes link to something like http://www.chickensinenvelopes.net/#fn:978.1 on the main page, with the ‘978’ denoting the post and the ‘1’ denoting the number of the footnote.
bugs compatibility value api content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check formatting publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
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complaint Convert to Markdown by default? support · 2013-06-23T22:21:55+00:00 · medium severity · formatting

Convert to Markdown by default?: users show missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Would it be possible to have a plugin settings pane that just had a tickbox that could switch the default behaviour of the plugin from a white box to a black box?
missing feature content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check formatting publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
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complaint Does not play well with hard-wrapped paragraphs support · 2013-06-20T20:31:50+00:00 · medium severity · formatting

Does not play well with hard-wrapped paragraphs: users show missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Does not play well with hard-wrapped paragraphs When formatting a post with hard-wrapped paragraphs, either wordpress or the plugin adds a line-break after each line-wrap, leading to an excessively ragged right margin, or, worse, orphaned words that have overflowed right before the line break (especially prevalent in blockquotes).
missing feature support quality form content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check formatting publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
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complaint PHP Markdown's issue with the way WordPress processes text support · 2013-03-19T14:54:22+00:00 · medium severity · formatting

PHP Markdown's issue with the way WordPress processes text: users show bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: PHP Markdown's issue with the way WordPress processes text PHP Markdown has a small problem with the way WordPress processes text, which I noticed in the upcoming WordPress flagship theme Twenty Thirteen .
bugs compatibility content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check formatting publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
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praise Previewing a Page seems to not render markdown… support · 2013-02-12T18:43:40+00:00 · medium severity · formatting

Previewing a Page seems to not render markdown…: users praise reliable, value, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: Previewing a Page seems to not render markdown… On the new version, when editing a page, if you hit preview the markdown isn’t rendered… (Haven’t tried it for a post or a CPT) http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/markdown-on-save/ On the new version, when editing a page, if you hit preview the markdown isn’t rendered… (Haven’t tried it for a post or a CPT) ht
reliable value content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check formatting publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
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neutral v.1.2 ? support · 2013-02-09T11:10:03+00:00 · low severity · formatting

v.1.2 ?: neutral conversation with limited structured signal.

Evidence: v.1.2 ? No Changelog for v.1.2 version ? http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/markdown-on-save/ No Changelog for v.1.2 version ? http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/markdown-on-save/ Looks like WordPress.org had a hiccup and didn’t update that. Bumped it to trigger a rebuild. Thanks! Looks like WordPress.org had a hiccup and didn’t update that. Bumped it to t
content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check formatting publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
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complaint Recovering Markdown support · 2012-10-22T16:58:37+00:00 · medium severity · formatting

Recovering Markdown: users show performance pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/markdown-on-save/ Well, if you saved your Database, you should have your Markdown table.
performance value content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check formatting publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
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complaint [Plugin: Markdown on Save] Link Titles support · 2012-03-20T19:40:31+00:00 · medium severity · formatting

[Plugin: Markdown on Save] Link Titles: users show bugs pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: [Plugin: Markdown on Save] Link Titles Links formatted with a title are not being parsed properly.
bugs form content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check formatting publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
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complaint [Plugin: Markdown on Save] tags? support · 2012-03-01T14:12:30+00:00 · medium severity · formatting

[Plugin: Markdown on Save] tags?: users show support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Is there a standard way to do it or is it not supported?
support content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check formatting publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
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complaint [Plugin: Markdown on Save] Converting Posts from Former Markdown Plugin support · 2012-02-09T00:24:02+00:00 · medium severity · formatting

[Plugin: Markdown on Save] Converting Posts from Former Markdown Plugin: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: [Plugin: Markdown on Save] Converting Posts from Former Markdown Plugin Before installing this plugin, I was using a different Markdown plugin.
bugs compatibility missing feature setup content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check formatting publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
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complaint [Plugin: Markdown on Save] Markdown for comments ? support · 2012-01-05T09:52:41+00:00 · medium severity · formatting

[Plugin: Markdown on Save] Markdown for comments ?: users show missing feature, support, migration pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Hello, your plugin lacks a feature I liked with Fortin’s plugin: the ability to use Markdown language in the comments.
missing feature support migration easy content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check formatting publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
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question [Plugin: Markdown on Save] Markdown Parser Bug: Link title not processed support · 2011-11-02T03:30:11+00:00 · medium severity · formatting

[Plugin: Markdown on Save] Markdown Parser Bug: Link title not processed: users show bugs pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: [Plugin: Markdown on Save] Markdown Parser Bug: Link title not processed I tried to put the title attribute in a link and it failed to parse the markdown at all.
bugs content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check formatting publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
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