Active installations10Adoption metric — not a quality score
WordPress.org rating5.0 / 5 from 1 ratings
Official packageDirect from WordPress.org
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WP PlugIndex currently records ERA Markdown Importer version 1.0.2 as active, updated 4mo ago and tested up to WordPress 7.0.
Overview
About this plugin
ERA Markdown Importer is a lightweight, secure, and developer-friendly tool designed to streamline your content creation workflow. If you write your articles in Markdown-based applications like Obsidian, Notion, VS Code, or Typora, this plugin completely eliminates the need for manual copy-pasting, manual formatting, and layout adjustments.
The plugin converts standard Markdown elements (headings, paragraphs, lists, blockquotes, tables, and code blocks) into native, editable Gutenberg Blocks instantly.
Core Features
Drag-and-Drop Uploader: Beautiful, minimalist administration interface inspired by modern design principles (shadcn/ui style).
Gutenberg Blocks Conversion: Automatically generates native Gutenberg block comments (such as wp:paragraph, etc.) instead of inserting raw HTML, ensuring clean and native editing inside the block editor.
YAML Front-Matter Support: Automatically parses settings like title, status (draft/publish), post type, categories, and tags directly from your file header.
Table Spacing Auto-Fix: Automatically pre-processes Markdown tables to ensure they parse and align correctly in the WordPress table block.
Enhanced Security Hardening:
Enabled Parsedown Safe Mode to automatically escape and strip raw HTML tags, inline scripts, and unsafe protocols (e.g. javascript: links).
Explicit sanitization of custom and extracted post titles via sanitize_text_field().
Enforced 500KB maximum file size limits to prevent server memory exhaustion (DoS).
Enforced strict nonces, capability checks, and file validation.
WordPress.org metadata
Plugin tags
Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.
markdown importer
gutenberg
obsidian
Compatibility & maintenance
Compatibility & maintenance
Tested up to WordPress 7.0
Not yet marked as tested with WordPress 7.1. WordPress.org currently lists Tested up to 7.0.
Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to7.0
Minimum requirementsWordPress 5.8 · PHP 7.4
Update activity21 Jun 20264mo ago
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