{"id":2787,"date":"2026-03-30T07:06:55","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T07:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/systems\/?p=2787"},"modified":"2026-04-11T17:44:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T17:44:13","slug":"markdown-usage-stats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/systems\/2026\/03\/30\/markdown-usage-stats\/","title":{"rendered":"Markdown usage Stats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can we get some stats on Markdown usage on WordPress.org? https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/meta\/2026\/03\/03\/markdown-now-available-on-wordpress-org\/#comment-9823<\/p>\n<p>First round: Number of requests this month that hit <code>?output_format=md<\/code><\/p>\n<p>Next round: Can we find a way to record stats going forward?<br>\nWe\u2019d need to record either a) <code>Content-Type: text\/markdown<\/code> output (preferable), or b) <code>Accept: text\/markdown......<\/code> input.<\/p>\n<p>I would suggest making <code>bump_stats_extra()<\/code> a delayed <code>\/var\/spool<\/code> process but <span tabindex='0' class='glossary-item-container'>nginx<span class='glossary-item-hidden-content'><span class='glossary-item-header'>NGINX<\/span> <span class='glossary-item-description'>NGINX is open source software for web serving, reverse proxying, caching, load balancing, media streaming, and more. It started out as a web server designed for maximum performance and stability. In addition to its HTTP server capabilities, NGINX can also function as a proxy server for email (IMAP, POP3, and SMTP) and a reverse proxy and load balancer for HTTP, TCP, and UDP servers. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nginx.com\/\">https:\/\/www.nginx.com\/<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/span> is going to cache the output anyway..<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/systems\/tag\/prio1\/\" class=\"tag\"><span class=\"tag-prefix\">#<\/span>prio1<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/systems\/tag\/markdown\/\" class=\"tag\"><span class=\"tag-prefix\">#<\/span>markdown<\/a><\/p>\n<nav class='o2-post-footer-actions'><ul class='o2-post-footer-action-row'><li class='o2-post-footer-action'><a href=\"https:\/\/login.wordpress.org\/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fmake.wordpress.org%2Fsystems%2F2026%2F03%2F30%2Fmarkdown-usage-stats%2F%23respond&#038;locale=en_US\" title=\"Login to Reply\"  class=\"genericon  genericon-reply\"  data-action=\"login-to-reply\"  data-actionstate=\"default\" >Login to Reply<\/a><\/li><\/ul><div class='o2-post-footer-action-likes'><\/div><ul class='o2-post-footer-action-row'><li class='o2-post-footer-action'><span class='o2-resolve-wrap'><a href=\"#\" title=\"Clear to-do\"  class=\"o2-resolve-link o2-disabled-action genericon  genericon-close\"  data-action=\"resolvedposts\"  data-actionstate=\"resolved\" >Clear to-do<\/a><ul><\/ul><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/nav>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can we get some stats on Markdown usage on WordPress.org? https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/meta\/2026\/03\/03\/markdown-now-available-on-wordpress-org\/#comment-9823 First round: Number of requests this month that hit ?output_format=md Next round: Can we find a way to record stats going forward? We\u2019d need to record either a) Content-Type: text\/markdown output (preferable), or b) Accept: text\/markdown&#8230;&#8230; input. I would suggest making bump_stats_extra() a delayed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[393,204],"class_list":["post-2787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-markdown","tag-prio1","p2_resolved-resolved","mentions-barry","mentions-bjmcsherry","author-dd32"],"revision_note":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/systems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/systems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/systems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/systems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/systems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2787"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/systems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2790,"href":"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/systems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2787\/revisions\/2790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/systems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/systems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/systems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}