Today we are talking about Single Directory Components, Leveling up your skills, and How DrupalEasy can help with our guest Mike Anello. We’ll also cover Markdown Easy as our module of the week.

For show notes visit: https://www.talkingDrupal.com/524

Topics

• Discussion on Single Directory Components
• Drupal Easy's Training Programs
• Light Bulb Moments in Learning
• Choosing Post CSS for Front-End Development
• Course Materials and Updates
• Course Structure and Student Engagement
• Introducing the Show and Tell Series

Resources

• DrupalEasy's Professional Single Directory Components course
• Dries blogs about Markdown Easy:
  • https://dri.es/installing-and-cbonfiguring-markdown-easy-for-drupal
  • https://dri.es/switching-to-markdown-after-20-years-of-html
• DrupalEasy Show & Tell
  • https://www.drupaleasy.com/blogs/ultimike/2025/10/introducing-drupaleasy-show-tell-our-new-youtube-video-series
  • https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUf-wKGJjCXEXH03Mw44hJ84YG-ZwmVKp
• Drupal dojo
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Guests

• Mike Anello - drupaleasy.com ultimike

Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan Stephen Cross - stephencross.com stephencross Hayden Baillio - hgbaillio

MOTW Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever wanted an easy way to use Markdown to write content in your Drupal site? There’s a module for that.
• Module name/project name:
  • Markdown Easy
• Brief history
  • How old: created in July 2023 by Michael Anello (ultimike) of Drupal Easy
• Versions available: 1.0.1 and 2.0.0, both of which work with Drupal 9 or later
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained
  • Security coverage
  • Test coverage
  • Documentation guide available
  • Number of open issues: 9 open issues, none of which are bugs against the 2.x branch
• Usage stats:
  • 556 sites
• Module features and usage
  • For anyone who doesn’t know, Markdown is a popular, lightweight markup language for creating formatted text using a plain-text editor. Initially defined in 2004, Markdown grew out of existing conventions for formatting text in emails and usenet posts
  • People like writing in Markdown because it allows them to focus on what’s being said without the distraction of concerns about how it will look
  • With the Markdown Easy module installed, your Drupal site will now have a Markdown Easy text format available. Within the settings for that format, you can choose "Standard Markdown", "GitHub-flavored Markdown", or "Markdown Smörgåsbord" as the variant of Markdown syntax you want to use. Standard Markdown is the most restrictive, and the other two allow more elements to be included. You can also configure which HTML tags you want to allow, as part of the normal text format configuration.
  • It’s worth noting that Dries has posted a couple of blogs about using this module, the more recent about working with Mike to better handle HTML tags. So Mike, what inspired you to write this module, and what can you tell us about the experience of collaborating with Dries?