EasyMark

Markdown section type for GPEasy CMS

GPEasy is a fun little CMS, somehow I thought it would benefit from having a MarkDown content type - and for once in this life, I finally found something nobody has done yet and within my boundaries, so here it is. Enjoy everybody!

Here is what works:

• Default content
• Section add/remove (Well, Ok, most of this is done by the CMS itself...)
• Displaying Markdown content (The heavy lifting is done by Parsedown)
• Displaying Markdown Extra content (The heavy lifting is done by Parsedown Extra)
• Inline content editing -- Woohooo! (Ok, I copied most of the JavaScript work from the "Execute PHP" plugin available in the GPEasy repo...)
• Downloadable from the GPEasy plugin repository: EasyMark: MarkDown for GPEasy
• WYSIWYG-like operation: not completely WYSIWYG, and not instantaneous, but this is a lot more convenient to use than without...
• Settings for the Parsedown renderer

Here are some of the outstanding points:

• add some kind of link to help or cheatsheet regarding Markdown to the inline editing part
• would be nice to have a more user-friendly editor, something like Bootstrap-Markdown

Release notes:

1.4: WIP

TODO before release:

1.3.1: Bugfix release

• Jürgen Krausz spotted and fixed a bug: was not compatible with PHP 5.3. Also, made JavaScript a bit nicer
• Added "Acknowledgements" section to admin page to thank everyone involved

1.3: Feature release

• Merged fix for JS to be able to work in cases when framework is installed under subfolder (thanks oyejorge!)
• Admin page with a lot of (OK, actually 5) configurable options!
• Fix double escaping in code blocks (actually done so by adding the admin page options)
• WYSIWYG stuff works with POST requests instead of GET
• Updated Parsedown to 1.6
• Removed Special Link - now WYSIWYG implemented in Admin part, a bit less clutter
• Some PHP and JS refactor to have nicer code

1.2: Feature release

• Markdown Extra
• Minor bugfix: variable not found error fixed
• WYSIWYG-like operation! Yay! Not the nicest (currently uses HTTP GET requests to a special page...), but at least works most of the time. Would be nicer with posts, but having to get a nonce does not make that too easy...

1.1: Initial release, minimal functionality

• Markdown parsing, inline editing works, as well as Section add and remove

The project uses Parsedown for transforming Markdown into HTML, and Parsedown Extra for transforming Markdown Extra into HTML.