WP Readme to Markdown

Convert WordPress Plugin Readme Files to GitHub Flavored Markdown.
The tool is built on the WP Readme to Markdown Library

Features

• Converts headings
• Formats contributors, donate link, etc.
• Inserts screenshots

Usage

# with files as params
wp2md -i readme.txt -o README.md
# or with unix pipes
wp2md < readme.txt > README.md

Installation

Composer (recommended)

Add a composer dependency to your project:

"require-dev": {
    "wpreadme2markdown/wp2md": "*"
}

The binary will be vendor/bin/wp2md

Download binary

You may install WP2MD binary globally

sudo wget https://github.com/wpreadme2markdown/wp2md/releases/latest/download/wp2md.phar -O /usr/local/bin/wp2md
sudo chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/wp2md

PHAR compilation

# install dependencies
composer install
# run pake build script
composer pake phar

Executable PHAR archive will be created as build/wp2md.phar

• This assumes composer is installed as a package in your operating system.
  If not, replace composer with php command and your composer.phar location
  (i.e. php ../phars/composer.phar)

Web Version

Visit this GitHub page for the web version and a link to its running instance