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Top 23 PHP Markdown Projects
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Grav
Modern, Crazy Fast, Ridiculously Easy and Amazingly Powerful Flat-File CMS powered by PHP, Markdown, Twig, and Symfony
Project mention: A new path forward for WordPress, and for the open web | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-06-07Migrating to SSG is definitely one of the options!
I do wonder what other CMSes people do enjoy, though. My blog runs on Grav, a flat file CMS that still allows me to easily keep the content in Git, while also having some dynamic content and search (and optionally an admin UI): https://getgrav.org/
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Stream
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For personal blog, I have found the following alternatives:
- Chyrp Lite: lightweight blogging engine, written in PHP. https://github.com/xenocrat/chyrp-lite
- Typecho: a PHP-based blog software. https://github.com/typecho/typecho
and file-based static content generator:
- Quartz: Publish an Obsidian vault as a static site. https://github.com/jackyzha0/quartz
- Logseq: Publish a Logseq graph as a static site. https://github.com/logseq/publish-spa
also Jekyll templates:
- https://github.com/maximevaillancourt/digital-garden-jekyll-...
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CommonMark PHP
Highly-extensible PHP Markdown parser which fully supports the CommonMark and GFM specs.
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InfluxDB
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wordpress-to-jekyll-exporter
One-click WordPress plugin that converts all posts, pages, taxonomies, metadata, and settings to Markdown and YAML which can be dropped into Jekyll (or Hugo or any other Markdown and YAML based site engine).
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laravel-markdown
A highly configurable markdown renderer and Blade component for Laravel (by spatie)
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composer-diff
Compares composer.lock changes and generates Markdown report so you can use it in PR description.
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wordpress-markdown-git
:loop: WordPress plugin to add file content (Markdown, Jupyter notebooks) from a Git based VCS to a WordPress post; replaces https://github.com/gis-ops/md-github-wordpress
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SaaSHub
SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives
NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
PHP Markdown discussion
PHP Markdown related posts
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Ask HN: Do you still self-host a blog? What's your publishing stack?
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WordPress Is in Trouble
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Building a Simple Grav CMS Theme with Twig, PHP, and CSS
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WordPress Alternatives
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Ask HN: What products other than Obsidian share the file over app philosophy?
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Parsedown: Better Markdown Parser in PHP
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JTXboard + Davx5 + nextcloud for notes sync?
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A note from our sponsor - InfluxDB
www.influxdata.com | 17 Jul 2025
Index
What are some of the best open-source Markdown projects in PHP? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grav | 15,096 |
| 2 | Parsedown | 14,929 |
| 3 | typecho | 11,903 |
| 4 | Pico | 3,882 |
| 5 | CommonMark PHP | 2,860 |
| 6 | HTML to Markdown | 1,823 |
| 7 | htmly | 1,208 |
| 8 | wordpress-to-jekyll-exporter | 1,052 |
| 9 | Couscous | 840 |
| 10 | githuber-md | 655 |
| 11 | Flextype | 582 |
| 12 | laravel-markdown | 383 |
| 13 | gotenberg-php | 299 |
| 14 | sheets | 294 |
| 15 | knowfox | 191 |
| 16 | composer-diff | 180 |
| 17 | PineDocs | 143 |
| 18 | wordpress-markdown-git | 50 |
| 19 | dokuwiki-plugin-mdpage | 42 |
| 20 | markdown | 37 |
| 21 | markdown-it-php | 30 |
| 22 | laravel-commonmark-blog | 21 |
| 23 | commonmark-mark-extension | 13 |
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