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How to Get Markdown Response from WordPress API

Published onMarch 16, 2024
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Integrating Markdown functionality into WordPress can significantly enhance your content creation experience, offering a more streamlined and efficient way to write and format your posts. Markdown is a lightweight markup language that allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, which then converts to HTML. In this guide, we'll walk you through the process of integrating WordPress API with Markdown, enabling you to utilize Markdown editing capabilities within your WordPress environment.

Prerequisites

Before we begin, ensure you have the following:
  1. A WordPress website up and running.
  2. Access to install plugins on your WordPress site.

Installation

To enable Markdown editing within your WordPress site, we'll utilize the WP Githuber MD plugin. Follow these steps to install the plugin:
  1. Download the WP Githuber MD plugin from its GitHub repository.
  2. Install the plugin on your WordPress site by navigating to
    and uploading the downloaded ZIP file.
  3. Activate the plugin.

Integrating Markdown with WordPress API

Once you've installed the WP Githuber MD plugin, the next step is to integrate Markdown functionality with the WordPress API. Follow these steps:

Step 1: Editing functions.php

  1. Access your WordPress theme directory by navigating to
    .
  2. Locate the
    file within your active theme directory.
  3. Add the following lines of code at the top of the
    file:

Step 2: Testing

After adding the necessary code to functions.php, it's time to test the integration. Create or edit a post within your WordPress dashboard. You should now see a Markdown editor interface, allowing you to write and format your content using Markdown syntax.
To test the integration, you can use a tool like Postman or cURL to make a request to the WordPress API.
For example, to fetch a this post with the ID 123, you can send a GET request to the following URL:
The response should include the post content in Markdown format, as well as additional data like tags and the featured image URL.
Example response:
With this integration, you can now build applications or tools that leverage the WordPress API and Markdown to provide a better writing experience for content creators.
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#Markdown
#Wordpress