Title: Carve Markup Author: markmarkmark Published: Morso 6, 2026 Last modified: Siilto 22, 2026 --- Search plugins ![](https://ps.w.org/carve-markup/assets/banner-772x250.png?rev=3597844) ![](https://ps.w.org/carve-markup/assets/icon-256x256.png?rev=3597844) # Carve Markup By [markmarkmark](https://profiles.wordpress.org/markmarkmark/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/carve-markup.0.1.6.zip) * [Details](https://fuc.wordpress.org/plugins/carve-markup/#description) * [Reviews](https://fuc.wordpress.org/plugins/carve-markup/#reviews) * [Installation](https://fuc.wordpress.org/plugins/carve-markup/#installation) * [Development](https://fuc.wordpress.org/plugins/carve-markup/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/carve-markup/) ## Description 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.⌉⌊ Editing a Carve block in the visual (WYSIWYG) editor, with the block toolbar.⌉[ 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.⌉⌊Split view: Carve source on the left, live preview on the right.⌉[ Split view: Carve source on the left, live preview on the right. [⌊The rendered post on the front end.⌉⌊The rendered post on the front end.⌉[ The rendered post on the front end. [⌊The Carve Markup settings screen.⌉⌊The Carve Markup settings screen.⌉[ The Carve Markup settings screen. ## Blocks This plugin provides 2 blocks. * Carve Write Carve markup with a live in-browser preview. * Carve Slides Turn Carve markup into a keyboard-friendly slide deck. ## Installation 1. In your dashboard go to Plugins -> Add New, search for “Carve Markup”, then install and activate. Or upload the plugin ZIP under Plugins -> Add New -> Upload Plugin. 2. Configure under Settings -> Carve Markup. Installing from source (GitHub) instead? Run `composer install --no-dev`, optionally` npm install && npm run build` for the in-browser preview, then activate. ## Reviews There are no reviews for this plugin. ## Contributors & Developers “Carve Markup” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ markmarkmark ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/markmarkmark/) [Translate “Carve Markup” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/carve-markup) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/carve-markup/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/carve-markup/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/carve-markup/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/carve-markup/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog #### 0.1.6 * New: include directives expand behind the `unfiltered_html` capability – a post expands them only if the user who last saved it held it, a preview of a saved post follows the post’s stored trust bit, and a new `include_root` setting names the containment root. * New: import and paste conversions retain version 2 fidelity reports; the block editor shows findings, imported posts keep an audit report, and bulk migration requires review for non-lossless results. * New: a `{.diff}` code fence renders as a diff overlay instead of ordinary highlighted code. * New: the visual editor supports the structured inline editors from carve-grammars, so comment, literal, and raw-inline payloads are editable in place. * Changed: bulk and CLI migration require `--force` for unverified Markdown as well as degraded or dropped results, and show the findings first. * Changed: bundled the carve-php 0.1.9 and carve-grammars 0.1.9 engines (from 0.1.7 and v0.1.6), which add include expansion and the version 2 fidelity reports, change how the Markdown target spells emphasis and strike, and change several shapes the Carve writer emits; documents using those constructs can render differently and more correctly. #### 0.1.5 * New: native block-editor blocks for admonitions, code groups, and tables with spans, each retaining copyable Carve source and a server-rendered preview. * New: Carve excerpts, source viewing, and `.crv` exports now include focused native blocks and slide blocks, including those nested inside Groups or Columns. * Changed: improved Carve split editing and switched the editor to native browser fullscreen. * Changed: bundled the carve-php 0.1.7 engine (and carve-grammars v0.1.6), a parser- correctness pass on how nested containers own the blocks written beneath them; documents mixing quotes, lists, description bodies, and footnote bodies can render differently and more correctly. * Fixed: visual editing no longer overwrites a newer block value after Undo, a revision restore, or another editor changing the source during the session. * Security: bound authenticated REST rendering to one megabyte by default, adjustable with the `wpcarve_render_max_bytes` filter. #### 0.1.4 * New: source-first Carve Documents (Posts -> Add Carve Document) store the whole post body as raw `.crv`, with Write / Split / Preview views, a formatting toolbar,`. crv` download, and lossless conversion to and from a Gutenberg Carve block. * New: opt-in “Written with Carve” article footer, plus independent inline viewing and lossless `.crv` download of the original public post source, with site defaults and per-post overrides. * Changed: bundled the latest carve-php development engine for the upcoming release, including correct omission of an external link target when new-tab behavior is disabled. #### 0.1.3 * New: Carve Workbench document health diagnostics, heading navigation, searchable commands, and semantic changes since the last save. * New: per-block CSL-JSON bibliographies with numbered or author-date citations, unresolved-key diagnostics, references, and backlinks. * Changed: refreshed release dependencies and removed the local Phiki offset patch now that Phiki 2.2.1 contains the fix upstream. * New: optional dark-mode code theme (the `torchlight_theme_dark` setting) – code blocks render both palettes and switch by the visitor’s color scheme, with a site theme toggle winning over the OS in both directions. * Fixed: Mermaid diagrams render in the effective color scheme and re-render on scheme changes, without the “Syntax error in text” a race with the vendor auto- run could cause. * Fixed: all dark-mode surface styles (admonitions, tabs, code groups, TOC boxes, comment tabs) follow a site theme toggle in both directions, not only the OS preference. * Fixed: carve code-fence highlighting ships dark palettes (no light-theme colors on dark backgrounds), closing inline delimiters keep their color, underlined text is styled again, and the overlay now covers every construct. * Fixed: pasting Carve no longer offers a bogus “convert from Markdown” prompt, and the block excerpt renders from the Carve source instead of leaking raw block markup onto archive pages. * Fixed: code-group tab strips follow the theme in dark mode; the phiki offset patcher fails loudly on read/write errors; local assets cache-bust by file mtime. #### 0.1.2 * New: bulk migration screen (Tools -> Carve Migrate) converts existing posts to Carve without WP-CLI; the list is a dry-run preview. * New: opt-in diagram export – hover a rendered diagram to Copy SVG or Download it (SVG, or PNG for Chart.js/Vega-Lite). Enable under Settings -> Code & diagrams. * Security: the public comment-preview endpoint is now gated and per-IP rate-limited; the paste-ingest endpoint rejects oversized input. * Fixed: changing a rendering setting (table of contents, smart quotes, theme, diagram toggles) now refreshes cached posts instead of serving stale HTML. * Fixed: [carve] shortcode fence titles such as ::: tab “Overview” keep their quotes and parse correctly. * Fixed: admonitions with a custom title keep their per-type icon. * Fixed: the Write-mode source field no longer grows past the viewport, keeping the mode tabs reachable. * Changed: the front-end stylesheet loads only on pages that actually render Carve. * Changed: minimum WordPress raised to 6.3 (blocks use Block API v3). #### 0.1.1 * Fixed content tabs and code groups: added the missing tab styles and preserved the radio group name through sanitization, so panels switch correctly. * Inline code now has a background and images are constrained to their container width. * The table of contents renders as a collapsible disclosure (closed by default, opens on click). * The block’s live preview now renders tabs, details, spoilers and code groups as interactive widgets, matching the published output. #### 0.1.0 * Initial release: render Carve in posts, pages and comments; [carve] shortcode and carve/markup + carve/slides blocks. * Visual (WYSIWYG) editor with Write / Split / Visual / Preview tabs, a unified toolbar, an in-block code-language picker and keyboard shortcuts. * Import Markdown / Djot / BBCode / HTML and export posts as .crv. * Live in-browser preview, frontmatter-to-meta, content profiles, table of contents, heading permalinks, smart quotes, diagram renderers, media embeds, bundled syntax highlighting, render caching and a REST endpoint. ## Meta * Version **0.1.6** * Last updated **6 days ago** * Active installations **Fewer than 10** * WordPress version ** 6.3 or higher ** * Tested up to **7.1.2** * PHP version ** 8.2 or higher ** * Language * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/carve-markup/) * Tags * [djot](https://fuc.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/djot/)[editor](https://fuc.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/editor/) [markdown](https://fuc.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/markdown/)[markup](https://fuc.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/markup/) * [Advanced View](https://fuc.wordpress.org/plugins/carve-markup/advanced/) ## Ratings No reviews have been submitted yet. 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