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Converting from Tiki syntax to Markdown


New in Tiki25 and improved in Tiki26: Native support for Tiki-Flavored Markdown. But what if you have content in Tiki syntax?

As of 2023-09, this is still Beta. You should first use on a test database, and review results before running on a production database. It is not yet ready to be ran on *.tiki.org sites (which do have a huge quantity of diverse content).


We are testing on:


Please see the evolution: https://gitlab.com/tikiwiki/tiki/-/commits/master?search=markdown

As of 2023-08-02, a root cronjob is ran on /root/predogfood.sh which contains

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# markdownthemes.tiki.org echo "========== markdownthemes.tiki.org ============" cd /opt/tiki-manager/app/ php tiki-manager instance:clone --source=2 --target=9 --no-interaction --direct --skip-reindex --skip-cache-warmup --only-data -vv php tiki-manager instance:update --instances=9 --no-interaction --skip-reindex --skip-cache-warmup --stash -vv php tiki-manager.php instance:profile:apply --instances=9 --profile=Markdown_Settings --no-interaction -vv php tiki-manager.php instance:maintenance --instances=9 on cd /home/tiki-markdownthemes/public_html php8.1 console.php markdown:convert --markdown --save -vv php8.1 console.php plugin:refresh -vv php8.1 console.php plugin:approve --all -vv php8.1 console.php user:password admin (redacted) -vv php8.1 console.php index:rebuild --log -vv cd /opt/tiki-manager/app/ php tiki-manager.php instance:maintenance --instances=9 off

Test what conversion will do

This will show conversion in the command line interface.

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php console.php markdown:convert --markdown

Do the actual conversion

You should first do this on a test backup instance.

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php console.php markdown:convert --markdown --save


Notes