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Carve is a post-Markdown markup language. This plugin renders Carve to HTML in WordPress, powered by the markup-carve/carve-php engine.
Features: per-post “Render as Carve” mode, a [carve] shortcode, a Gutenberg block with a visual (WYSIWYG) editor, comment support, content profiles, table of contents, heading permalinks, smart quotes, Mermaid, and WP-CLI migration.
Beyond a typical markup plugin:
- Visual editor with Write / Split / Visual / Preview tabs. Edit visually or in source; every change round-trips to canonical Carve, and you are only warned when visual editing would change the rendered output.
- Instant in-browser preview using the Carve JS engine (no server round-trip).
- Paste or import Markdown, Djot, BBCode or HTML and convert to Carve in place; export any post as a .crv file.
- Map typed frontmatter (yaml/json/toml) to excerpt, SEO and post meta.
- Cache rendered HTML at save time; render via REST for headless WordPress.
Screenshots
Editing a Carve block in the visual (WYSIWYG) editor, with the block toolbar.
Split view: Carve source on the left, live preview on the right.
The rendered post on the front end.
The Carve Markup settings screen.