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 GitHub-Flavored Markdown Comments version 1.0 as active, updated 13y ago and tested up to WordPress 3.5.
Overview
About this plugin
Comment forms allow some HTML, this plugin extends that to let users type in Markdown and have it automatically converted to HTML. It also extends Markdown with a couple features made popular by GitHub. Conversion from Markdown to HTML is completely automated and doesn’t require anything on the commenter’s part.
The feature additions from GitHub are:
Single linebreaks are treated as new paragraphs
Code “fencing” with three backticks (“`)
Two notable features from GitHub’s Markdown implementation are missing:
To do lists: Doing these well would require some front end interaction, which I decided is outside the scope of this plugin at least for now
Repository autolinking (e.g. comments, issues, etc): These seemed a little too GitHub-specific.
GitHub-Flavored Markdown Comments is developed, unsurprisingly, on GitHub.
WordPress.org metadata
Plugin tags
Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.
comments
github
markdown
Compatibility & maintenance
Compatibility & maintenance
Tested up to WordPress 3.5
Not yet marked as tested with WordPress 7.1. WordPress.org currently lists Tested up to 3.5.
Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to3.5
Minimum requirementsWordPress 3.4 · PHP not listed
Update activity8 Mar 201313y ago
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