SimpleMDE for Kirby

This is a textarea with Markdown highlighting using SimpleMDE.

Installation

Put the kirby-simplemde-master folder into your site/plugins folder and rename it to simplemde.

You can then replace your textarea fields with simplemde like that:

text:
  label: Text
  type:  simplemde

Features

Compared to the built-in textarea, this field has some advantages:

• Live Markdown highlighting. Including green Kirbytags.
• Undo/redo via Ctrl/⌘ + Z/Y.
• No modals for URLs and email addresses as this prevents the buttons from showing in structure fields.
• Automatic link/email detection when selecting text and using the link or email button.
• Easy to add custom buttons
• Sticky toolbar on the top for better reachability

Options

Buttons

By default the following buttons are displayed:

• h2
• h3
• bold
• italic
• unordered-list
• ordered-list
• link
• pagelink
• email

There are also some more built-in buttons:

• h1
• quote
• code
• horizontal-rule

You can define what buttons you want to use for any field:

text:
  label: Text
  type:  simplemde
  buttons:
    - h1
    - italic
    - link

And you can also globally define default buttons for any SimpleMDE field on your site by setting the simplemde.buttons variable in your config.php (Thank you, rasteiner):

c::set('simplemde.buttons', array(
  "bold",
  "italic",
  "link",
  "email"
));

Page link

As of version 1.1.2 this field will automatically hide modules and modules container pages with the title _modules from the page list. To include them you can add this to your config.php:

c::set('simplemde.excludeModules', false);

Highlighting

If you don't want to highlight Kirbytags you can add this to your config.php:

c::set('simplemde.kirbytagHighlighting', false);

Replace core textarea

You can replace the core textarea with this setting in your config.php:

c::set('simplemde.replaceTextarea', true);