Download as Markdown

How to download your content as Markdown

Markdown can be useful if your CMS uses markdown or if you prefer to edit raw markdown files (good for you!). Many modern CMS and blogging platforms allow you to add blog posts are basic markdown files. We don't currently provide frontmatter or mdx, but you can easily export your articles as basic markdown files.

Read below to learn how to download your content as markdown...

Do not select and copy directly from the article preview!

You first need to configure a base url so that we can construct your internal links properly. If you copy directly from the preview, your content could have broken/incorrect links and this could lead to SEO issues.

Open "Read mode"

After an article has been written, click on the "Read action button.

Input "Base URL"

Before you can copy/export your content, you need to provide a base url for your cluster articles.

The base url will be used to determine the location of all of the articles in the cluster, and is what helps us build the internal links between articles. It is important to provide the actual base url that the articles will have after publishing so that they can all reference each other correctly.

For example:

• Your website is https://caffeinated.club

• Your website uses the url structure https://caffeinated.club/[category]/[article-slug]

• You are working on a cluster called "latte art animals" with 3 articles:

  • "How to create a latte art elephant" with slug "latte-art-elephant"

  • "How to create a latte art zebra" with slug "latte-art-zebra"

  • "How to create a latte art cat" with slug "latte-art-cat"

• You intend to publish this cluster in a category called "coffee-art"

You would need to provide the base url: https://caffeinated.club/coffee-art

Machined would assume links for articles as follows:

• https://caffeinated.club/coffee-art/latte-art-elephant

• https://caffeinated.club/coffee-art/latte-art-zebra

• https://caffeinated.club/coffee-art/latte-art-cat

Click "Download MD"

After you've provided a base url, the Copy button will become available - click on the "three dots" to expand the "Export" menu, click the "Download MD" button

Your browser will download the file to your normal Downloads folder.