Tiny Markdown Editor

A WordPress plugin that replaces the block and classic editors with a plain textarea. Markdown is converted to HTML on output.

Why this exists

I built this for my (upcoming) own blog. I wanted to write posts in markdown without the overhead of Gutenberg or TinyMCE. It does what I need and nothing more.

What it does

• Disables the block editor
• Disables the visual mode in the classic editor
• Converts markdown to HTML when displaying content
• Uses Parsedown for markdown parsing
• Disables block editor scripts and styles

Supported markdown

Basic stuff only, not aiming to support every markdown extension out there.