How Markdown in WordPress Can Be Beneficial for Writers and Bloggers?

MARKDOWN IS PORTABLE AND FUTURE-PROOF!!

When you write in markdown, your document will automatically work in cross platform with this you can copy form one app and can paste it in other, no matter which platform or operating system you have. You can convert markdown in any format of your wish, there is not lock in it.

And it’s future-proof. Not like Word or Pages document, you’ll probably be able to open plain text in a decade or a century. It’s not a proprietary file format that will be discontinued or updated until it’s unrecognizable.

Writing in Markdown

Never write directly to WordPress in your browser, it’s possible that you lose your work. Never paste text directly from Microsoft Word also. Markdown apps very different, which gives pleasure to write in and they are designed to write for the web, they work very good with WordPress.

Here is a list of some of the main Markdown writing apps for various platforms. If we have missed some of your favorite apps, please tell us in the comment.

Online

Stackedit.io – it comes with some best features like supporting offline mode, syncs with Google Drive and Dropbox, and built-in spell checking.

Dillinger (free) - it is “a cloud-enabled, mobile-ready, offline-storage, AngularJS powered HTML5 Markdown editor”. With this you can also import and save files from GitHub, Dropbox, and Google Drive.

Beegit (from $79 a month) – it comes with a native markdown support. You can read more about it on the internet.

Mac

Ulysses ($69.99) – it contains a full featured Markdown writing environment with the ability to convert in any formats, including Pdf, DOCX, etc. You can also publish directly in WordPress with this.

Simplenote - it is a cross platform, which supports Markdown

Byword ($11.99) – this is a popular ios markdown text editor. It contains a good balance between functions and simplicity.

Sublime Text ($70.00) – it can be easily used with Markdown.

Texts – it is a Markdown editor for Mac and Windows. It converts in many formats, which includes PDF and Word.

Mou – it is a free Markdown editor. But currently it doesn’t support Sierra and above.

Windows

MarkPad - one of the popular open-source Windows apps for writing in Markdown.

MarkdownPad – it is a free Markdown editor for Windows. A pro version is available with some professional features for $14.95

WriteMonkey - it is a Markdown app with a stripped down interface.

Simplenote - (see above).

Sublime Text - (see above).

Texts - (see above)

iOS

Ulysses ($38.99) - (see above).

Editorial ($4.99) – It is the most powerful and convenient iOS text editor with Markdown support and with other tools. The best feature is folding of headings, so it can be used as an outliner.

Byword - (see above).

Simplenote - (see above).

Android

Draft ($2.49) - it is a Markdown editor for Android devices. It is unavailable in Australia and some other countries. 

Simplenote - (see above).

Getting Markdown into WordPress

 So, now you have some content with you, how will you bring it into WordPress. There are three approaches for

1)   Convert your content into HTML before pasting into WordPress edit. From the applications mentioned above, many application are capable of doing this, you can use that.

2)   You can use Ulysses; it is now capable of publishing directly to WordPress (either as a draft or a published post).

3)   Or you can use Markdown in WordPress with the use of a plug-in.

By default, WordPress has no Markdown support. The best feature about Wordpress is that you can add additional function with plug in. These plug in handles Markdown in a different way, so choose properly. You need to choose that fits your workflow and is the best according to your needs.

If you are comfortable with using separate Markdown app for writing, and you are enjoying converting your content into HTML, then you do not have to do any of these things. Otherwise, you can use Markdown Quicktags and convert to HTML within WordPress.

If you have decided to paste your Markdown into WordPress, you will need a plug in to render that into HTML. Typewriter and Markdown for Wordpress and bbpress is the best choices. Never deactivate the plug in; otherwise, you visitors will just see the Markdown version of the page.

Hope it Helps!