Markdown Widget: write forum-home content in Markdown

Karl

A widget that lets you write custom content for your forum home in Markdown, built for FoF Forum Widgets Core. Same simple formatting you already use in posts.

Requires: FoF Forum Widgets Core (fof/forum-widgets-core).
Install: composer require linkrobins/markdown-widget, then enable it in the admin Extension Manager (or install it straight from Packagist there).

Source & issues: https://github.com/linkrobins/markdown-widget

Found a bug or want a feature? Reply here, or open an issue on the repo.

Karl

Markdown Widget v1.1.2 is out. Full notes: https://github.com/linkrobins/markdown-widget/releases/tag/v1.1.2

Changed

The widget now lets browsers cache its content for five minutes, so it stops re-fetching on every page view and loads a little faster. Edits you make in the admin panel still appear within a few minutes.
The rendered content follows the Font Sizer reading-size setting if you run that extension.

Plus new automated tests for the content endpoint and its caching, running on every change.

polyester

Installed this to put a little welcome blurb on the home page and it just worked, nice not having to hand-write HTML for it. Any plans to support embedding images inline?

Karl

polyester you can embed images via md 😉