Using markdown editor PLATEN for Blog posting

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Platen is a Markdown WordPress Editor Chrome web app developed by AlexTatiyants. It’s a Google Chrome app that works on Windows, Linux, and Mac.

Markdown

Markdown is a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers. Markdown allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, then convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML).

According to Wikipedia

Markdown is a lightweight markup language, originally created by John Gruber with substantial contributions from Aaron Swartz, allowing people “to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, then convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML)”.

Markdown is used by some of the world’s top sites like GitHub for creating README files and Stack Overflow.

Back to Platen

Platen Markdown WordPress Editor interface
Platen Markdown WordPress Editor interface

Platen is an awesome WordPress editor that works best with offline editing and posting (I'm writing this post offline using Platen).
Take a look at Platen—I'm sure if you've ever used Markdown, you're going to love this awesome editor.

Note: Platen may no longer be actively maintained. For modern Markdown editing, consider alternatives like:

  • StackEdit - Online Markdown editor
  • Typora - Desktop Markdown editor
  • WordPress Gutenberg editor (built-in Markdown support)

Download Platen

See more about how to use it and more about Platen

See Some Awesome Cheatsheets

  1. Markable cheatsheet

  2. Daring Fireball cheatsheet

  3. NestaCMS cheatsheet

  4. Stack Overflow help



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