🎉 #Djot (#PHP) is now officially available worldwide as #plugin in Wordpress installs: https://wordpress.org/plugins/djot-markup/
Please feel free to test it, review and rate it so people have confidence in switching over from markdown or other systems. Safer than MD.
Use in Gutenberg blocks and more.
Most notably, it now contains also useful addons like
- TOC
- Permalinks (clickable/copyable)
- Enhanced syntax (e.g. Markdown compatibility mode)
- Permissions per spec element (author vs commenter etc)
Like you, I use markdown to write notes in Joplin. And to write Fedi posts such as this one. (wafrn, the Fedi software I am using, supports writing posts in markdown.)
My only suggestion: do not get seduced by markdown's ease of use. Do not try to use it indiscriminately. Do not use it for documents that require complex markup (text with lots of subscripts/superscripts, mathematical equations, chemical formulae, nested sections, tables, columns, etc.), or even for simple but very long documents (long-form writing, books).
Basically, limit its use to short documents/notes that require very little markup.
This article is a good overview of the benefits and limitations of markdown.
As an aside, I hope djot replaces markdown as the most popular lightweight markup language in the near future.
Djot IntelliJ Plugin - Djot markup language support for JetBrains IDEs (PhpStorm, IntelliJ IDEA, WebStorm, etc.) - php-collective/djot-intellij
Thanks to @dereuromark, phpDocumentor Guides now has support for #djot 🎉
Djot is an improved and more precisely specified alternative to Markdown, designed to remove ambiguities and edge. It offers clearer rules, better nesting, and more consistent parsing, which makes it especially well-suited for technical documentation.
Learn more about djot: https://djot.net
Finally ready to be used.
Check out my post about it: https://www.dereuromark.de/2025/12/09/djot-php-a-modern-markup-parser/
You can also play around in the sandbox and get a feel of it.
Is it the markdown successor we have been waiting for?
#Markdown Is a Disaster: Why and What to Do Instead
https://karl-voit.at/2025/08/17/Markdown-disaster/
Here's my article where I summarize the subtle and no so subtle downsides when you choose Markdown for your information instead of a different markup syntax that doesn't come with all the downsides of #MD.
#publicvoit #orgdown #orgmode #LML #pandoc #rst #restructuredtext #asciidoc #Wikitext #BBCode #Creole #Crossmark #Djot #CommonMark #lockin
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