Markdown Editor

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Directory searches this plugin turns up in, and which way each one is moving. WordPress.org publishes no history of search positions, so this starts the day we first tracked a keyword and never backfills.

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1 search this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 0 listed. 1 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 2 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.

Directory rank

Ranked about #11,300 to #12,900, alongside the other plugins at 200+ installs. Plugins with the same install count swap places between wp.org requests, so this is where most of them sit. Checked monthly, last on 1 Nov 2026.

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 100% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

Crossed into this band 15 months ago; the previous band took 12 months to cross, which places it about 50% of the way through.

1. ★★★★★ rikusen

   8.1y ago

   Markdown用の非常に良いエディターです。UIがシンプルで、直感的な編集ができます。また、シンタックスハイライトもされていて、そこもまた良いです。ですが、現時点で取り消し線の書体がバグって書けないのと、機能が少なすぎるためそこだけ少し不安です。 This is the great editor for writing markdown I’ve ever seen! UI is simple, so you can edit an article intuitively. And this has a function that is Syntax Highlight! It is also a good point for me. But, I am concerned because I can’t write a text of strikethrough by the bug, and this has only limited functions. This topic was modified 7 years, 10 months ago by rikusen.

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2. ★★★★★ wildfootw

   8.4y ago

   Although it is a pretty good editor, all newline char disappear after you post the post is annoying. I can’t help but deactivate this plugin to edit my old post. hope author can fix this problem, thanks.

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3. ★★★★★ shames0

   8.5y ago

   Probably the best Markdown editor I’ve seen in a WordPress plugin. But after publishing my post I noticed the line number column takes up half of my code block’s width, and the text color was too dark for my dark themed site to be able to read. I’m using this plugin with the WordPress Twenty Fifteen theme’s ‘Dark’ settings. Also, it would be nice if the markdown syntax persisted in the editor after saving the post rather than showing the generated html.

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4. ★★★★★ David Favor

   9.0y ago

   Message emitted – The plugin does not have a valid header.

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5. ★★★★★ drbe4t

   9.1y ago

   I’ve been looking for a good markdown editor for a long time. I’ve been testing it out for a while now. I love it! A few things I wish it did. I wish I had a switch to go from classic mode to markdown mode or that I could select if I wanted it on pages and posts or just one or the other. Super clean interphase. I like the full-screen mode. It was a nice touch I look forward to new updates.

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6. ★★★★★ mrippon

   9.1y ago

   More or less exactly what I wanted. Full-screen side-by-side markdown support in 2017 without having to constantly press the preview button. Main gripe is that autosave does not appear to work, and all it takes is a backspace press while the focus is away from the edit box to lose it all (as I discovered the hard way)! Even if it just popped up the standard browser notification to say the content hasn’t been saved it’d be a massive improvement. The preview doesn’t show the real styling, but if I cared I wouldn’t be writing in MD! Another minor point, the editor wraps code blocks, while the preview window doesn’t. It’d be great if it was consistent and didn’t wrap in the editor (although I imagine this might be tricky…?)

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Translated into 47 languages, 0 at 90% or more · development strings

Plus 23 more locales with partial translations.

Whether ChatGPT and Claude name this plugin when asked the category question, and whether the readme gives them something to quote.

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Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2025-07-31 300+ → 200+ down after 368 days in tier
2. 2024-07-28 400+ → 300+ down after 371 days in tier
3. 2023-07-23 500+ → 400+ down after 1 days in tier
4. 2023-07-22 400+ → 500+ up after 2 days in tier
5. 2023-07-20 500+ → 400+ down after 246 days in tier
6. 2022-11-16 600+ → 500+ down

Competes with

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Markdown Editor: 200+ active installs, 4.3★ (6 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-11-02. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/markdown-editor