Best parsedown plugins for WordPress
The most popular parsedown plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Markdown Shortcode leads with 80+ active installs, ahead of MetaParsedown (fewer than 10) and {eac}Doojigger Readme Extension for WordPress (fewer than 10). All 3 plugins tagged “parsedown” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 3 parsedown plugins
- 1.
Markdown ShortcodeThe most installed parsedown plugin, with 80+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.7.11.
- 2.
MetaParsedownFewer than 10 active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 7 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.2.30.
- 3.
{eac}Doojigger Readme Extension for WordPressFewer than 10 active installs. No reviews yet, updated 1 week ago.
All 3 plugins tagged “parsedown”
Markdown Shortcode
Up in the last 7 days:160#17,879by JHoppe1 year ago
Damn simple markdown for wordpress via shortcode, uses parsedown (parsedown.org) and highlight.js (highlightjs.org).
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 11/day
MetaParsedown
#62,538by pagerange7 years ago
Import markdown and markdown-extra documents to Wordpress posts and pages, output as HTML, parse and save YAML front matter to post_meta, tags, and (o …
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
{eac}Doojigger Readme Extension for WordPress
Down in the last 7 days:8,948#67,323by Kevin Burkholder10 days ago
{eac}Readme loads and translates a WordPress markdown 'readme' file providing shortcodes and embedding URLs to access header lines and section blocks.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day