Title: Plugin request: Save posts as HTML, edit as Markdown with Markdown & Markdownify
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Plugin request: Save posts as HTML, edit as Markdown with Markdown & Markdownify

 *  [melroch](https://wordpress.org/support/users/melroch/)
 * (@melroch)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/save-posts-as-html-edit-as-markdown-with-php-markdown-extra-and-markdownify/)
 * There is a PHP‑script called Markdownify which converts HTML to PHP Markdown 
   Extra markup. IT is thought to be used in conjunction with PHP Markdown Extra
   so that one can write content in Markdown Extra, convert it to HTML with PHP 
   Markdown Extra and store it as HTML and then convert HTML (back) into Markdown
   Extra with Markdownify for editing. It sounds like a good idea but unfortunately
   there is no WordPress plugin for supporting Markdownify. I’ve been in contact
   with the author of Markdownify — a very young German guy — and he’s not into 
   WordPress and therefore uninterested in providing this support.
 * There are a couple of issues I can think of: will content which is already stored
   in the database as Markdown Extra be garbled if run through Markdownify? Also
   there would probably need to be a way to go through the database and convert 
   existing Markdown Extra to HTML. Third the PHP Markdown Extra script file will
   presumably have to be present in the plugins directory to be used by the Markdown-
   > HTML -> Markdownify -> Markdown cycle plugin but the Markdown Extra plugin 
   itself must be disabled. Would there be any way to ensure that PHP Markdown Extra
   is ‘invisible’ or disabled in the WordPress plugins menu if the Markdownify plugin
   is active and vice versa.
 * The relevant URLs are:
 * <[http://milianw.de/projects/markdownify/&gt](http://milianw.de/projects/markdownify/&gt);
 * <[http://sourceforge.net/projects/markdownify/&gt](http://sourceforge.net/projects/markdownify/&gt);
 * <[http://michelf.com/projects/php-markdown/&gt](http://michelf.com/projects/php-markdown/&gt);
 * I’d do this myself if I knew enough PHP‑but I’m not really a programmer, so I
   really hope you’re willing to help!
 * Cheers,
 * /Melroch

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