Git it Write – Write posts from GitHub

Git it Write allows to publish the markdown files present in a GitHub repository to your WordPress site. So with this plugin, whenever the files are added, updated in the repository the WordPress post will be added, updated accordingly.

This plugin is inspired from static site generators like Jekyll , Next.js , Gatsby.js on how content is written is markdown. This is a similar idea for WordPress where markdown files are parsed from GitHub and published as posts.

👓 Live example: Source github repository ( /docs/ folder) to Posts published

⚡ Getting started: Get started with Git it write. Learn how to write .md files and publish posts on WordPress.

This allows people to collaborate with the post, share edits and suggestions in GitHub which when pulled the WordPress post will be updated automatically.

If a repository has files in the below structure,

docs/ guide/ introduction.md getting-started.md help/ faq.md

Then below posts will be created like below (if permalinks are configured and the post type supports “hierarchy” i.e creating posts level by level (example: pages))

https://example.com/docs/guide/introduction/ https://example.com/docs/guide/getting-started/ https://example.com/help/faq/

🎲 What is the use of this plugin ?

• Publish posts using the files in your GitHub repository.
• Write your posts in Markdown format.
• Write your posts on your desktop application (Notepad++, Sublime Text, Visual studio code).
• Collaborate, involve communities on the files in GitHub and publish them on WordPress.
• All the advantages of Git and it’s version management system.

🚀 Some use cases

• Can be used for documentation posts, FAQs, Wikis etc.
• Write blog posts.
• Any articles which may need community involvement.

✨ Features

• Markdown will be processed and post will be published as HTML.