10 October 2006 3 Comments

Markdown Extra plugin for b2evolution

I love Markdown and use it for all my blogs independent of blog-system (I currently use WordPress, Serendipity and b2evolution and Markdown is perfect in that sense). It’s lightweight and beats any WYSIWYG editor on the market ;)

There was a Markdown plugin for b2evo, but it didn’t work with the new plugin API (and the author hadn’t updated the post since 2004) so I decided to make one myself.

The .zip contains everything you need, including the PHP Markdown Extra package by Michel Fortin

Download

Click here to download the plugin

Install

  • Unzip the plugin and upload the files to your b2evolution /plugin/ folder.
  • In admin navigate to App settings -> Plugins, find Markdown Extra and click ‘Install’.
  • If you want to enable Markdown for comments, you do this in the plugin configuration

That’s it. Let me know if you experience any problems.

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3 Responses to “Markdown Extra plugin for b2evolution”

  1. Glenn 10 November 2006 at 21:51 #

    Im tring to figure out how I can use markdown, I down loaded the file and installed it into my plugin dir. but I dont see any chance in the back office after I installed the plug in

  2. Bjørn 10 November 2006 at 23:38 #

    Hi Glenn,

    there are no changes in the back office. You just start using it in the editor. Use the mardown syntax when writing text.

    Check out the Markdown tutorial here: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/

    • bjorn
  3. Robert Brewer 1 April 2008 at 07:33 #

    Thanks heaps! This is the one plugin I was really worried about upgrading from b2 0.9 to 2.4.1. One wget and an [Install] click later and I’ve got markdown back. You rock.


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