The Smartdown system is designed to allow the rendering of Smartdown in a variety of contexts, blogging systems, and other educational and communication systems that demand technical and/or interactive capability. WordPress is a popular and widely used content management and publishing system that is used for blogging as well as for building fully-capable web applications.
This particular repository is a collection of scripts and instructions for how to use WordPress and Smartdown together.
Currently, the only supported scheme is where your Smartdown content is stored as a set of Smartdown files in GitHub Gists, and rendered via your WordPress site. However, this support can be (and will be) extended to support Smartdown source files stored in a variety of locations, including GitHub, S3, Dropbox, etc.
This is the first of several examples on how to render Smartdown content via your WordPress site. This technique relies upon your WordPress site having the 'Scripts n Styles' Plugin installed. Note that it is 'Scripts n Styles' and not 'Scripts And Styles'. The official link is:
There may be other plugins that provide the same functionality, but this is the one that I had access to and have verified works. The instructions below apply to version 3.4.4 of Scripts n Styles and version 4.9.6 of WordPress.
Using the plugin, I can add the following content to the Scripts tab, in the <body> section (as opposed to the <head> section):
Scripts-n-Styles-body-script.js
When using Scripts n Styles, remember to hit the 'Update Scripts' button to get your changes saved properly.
In the main content area of your WordPress Page/Post, instead of including Smartdown content directly, you will instead provide a link to Smartdown content that is stored within a GitHub Gist. This link should be called Smartdown Gist Source and should point to a URL like:
If everything works correctly, when you visit your WordPress page or post, you should see the Smartdown Gist Source link replaced by the corresponding Smartdown content.
The above instructions require you to paste the Scripts-n-Styles-body-script.js code into every page or post you wish to publish. Fortunately, the Scripts n Styles plugin supports a Global setting so that all of your pages/posts can optionally be Smartdown-enabled. The Scripts-n-Styles-body-script.js script should have no effect for any post/page that doesn't have a Smartdown Gist Source.