Everything below reflects the current release (v1.0.0). From install to machine-readable is typically under ten minutes.
You need WordPress 6.0+ on PHP 7.4+, an administrator login, a pretty-permalink structure (Settings → Permalinks — anything except "Plain"), and the plugin zip plus licence key from your purchase email. Only published, public content is ever served — drafts, private and password-protected posts always answer 404.
Go to Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin, choose the zip from your purchase email, install and activate. It adds a Markdown Endpoint item to the admin menu.
Visit Settings → Permalinks and press Save Changes once. That registers the .md endpoint with WordPress. (The endpoint needs a pretty-permalink structure — almost every site already has one.)
Open Markdown Endpoint → Licence and paste the key from your purchase email. Keys are domain-based — no account, no phoning home.
Take any published post, drop the trailing slash and add .md — /news/company-update.md. The settings screen shows a live example URL with Copy and Open buttons, so you don't even have to type one.
On the settings screen, toggle the metadata lines — publication date, author, categories, tags, original URL — and watch the live preview update. Want a house byline instead of real author names? Fill in the author display override.
Enable YAML front matter for pipeline tooling, table conversion, excerpt and featured image metadata, the automatic cache, the Markdown sitemap at /markdown-sitemap.md and the llms.txt manifest at /llms.txt. Add custom post types in Content types, and disable individual posts from their editor sidebar.
The screens and URLs you'll actually live with.
The settings screen shows exactly what a generated document will contain — every toggle updates it instantly, so you never guess what a change does.
Permalink minus trailing slash, plus .md. Hierarchical pages work (/about/team.md), category-based permalink structures work, and unknown paths return proper 404s.
One field replaces the author name on every document — a house byline, a brand name, or blank to show each post's real author.
A checkbox in the post editor takes any individual post or page off the endpoint — it answers 404 and drops out of the Markdown sitemap.
One document at /markdown-sitemap.md listing every available .md URL with its date — hand it to a crawler or an AI agent and it has your whole library.
The AI-crawler manifest at /llms.txt — site name, tagline and links to your clean Markdown. If another plugin already manages llms.txt, leave the switch off and they coexist.
Generated documents are cached and invalidated automatically when the post is edited or your settings change. Nothing to flush, nothing to remember.