PHP Markdown

Open-source PHP projects categorized as Markdown

Top 23 PHP Markdown Projects

  1. 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 | 2025-06-07

    Migrating 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/

  2. Stream

    Stream - Scalable APIs for Chat, Feeds, Moderation, & Video. Stream helps developers build engaging apps that scale to millions with performant and flexible Chat, Feeds, Moderation, and Video APIs and SDKs powered by a global edge network and enterprise-grade infrastructure.

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  3. Parsedown

    Better Markdown Parser in PHP

  4. typecho

    A PHP Blogging Platform. Simple and Powerful.

    Project mention: WordPress Alternatives | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-10-10

    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-...

  5. Pico

    Pico is a stupidly simple, blazing fast, flat file CMS. (by picocms)

  6. CommonMark PHP

    Highly-extensible PHP Markdown parser which fully supports the CommonMark and GFM specs.

  7. HTML to Markdown

    Convert HTML to Markdown with PHP (by thephpleague)

  8. htmly

    Simple and fast databaseless PHP blogging platform, and Flat-File CMS

  9. InfluxDB

    InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.

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  10. 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).

  11. Couscous

    Couscous is good.

  12. githuber-md

    Markdown editor plugin for WordPress.

  13. Flextype

    Modern Open Source Flat Files Content Management System.

  14. laravel-markdown

    A highly configurable markdown renderer and Blade component for Laravel (by spatie)

  15. gotenberg-php

    🐘 A PHP client for interacting with Gotenberg.

  16. sheets

    Store & retrieve your static content in plain text files (by spatie)

  17. knowfox

    Personal Knowledge Management. Use branch "minimal change" to deploy as laravel package.

  18. composer-diff

    Compares composer.lock changes and generates Markdown report so you can use it in PR description.

  19. PineDocs

    A fast and lightweight site for viewing files

  20. 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

  21. dokuwiki-plugin-mdpage

    A DokuWiki Plugin for Markdown Page

  22. markdown

    A Fast, Simple and Straight-forward Markdown to HTML Converter for PHP. (by fastvolt)

  23. markdown-it-php

    php version markdown-it

  24. laravel-commonmark-blog

    A simple filesystem-based, SEO-optimized blog for Laravel using CommonMark.

  25. commonmark-mark-extension

    Render ==highlighted== texts as <mark> elements in league/commonmark

  26. SaaSHub

    SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

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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).

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  • Ask HN: Do you still self-host a blog? What's your publishing stack?

    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Apr 2025
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  • Building a Simple Grav CMS Theme with Twig, PHP, and CSS

    2 projects | dev.to | 6 Dec 2024
  • WordPress Alternatives

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  • Ask HN: What products other than Obsidian share the file over app philosophy?

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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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