Markdown Alternate
Introduction
Markdown Alternate serves a clean Markdown version of your Joomla pages for AI agents and Large Language Models. Human visitors see your normal HTML site exactly as before. When an AI bot requests a page, or when you add .md to the end of an article or category URL, the plugin returns a tidy Markdown version of that content instead of the full HTML. Markdown Alternate is a free Joomla plugin from Joomill.
Who it is for
Joomla site owners and developers who want their content to be read cleanly by AI tools, chatbots and LLM-based agents, without changing anything about how the site looks to human visitors.
Features
- Markdown version of every page — converts articles and category pages to clean Markdown in the background, automatically.
- Humans keep the normal site — regular visitors see your formatted Joomla pages unchanged; only bots, or an explicit .md request, receive the Markdown version.
- .md URL — add .md to the end of a page URL to get its Markdown version, which is also how you test it yourself.
- Auto-discovery link tag — adds a tag to the page head so agents and bots can discover the Markdown version programmatically.
- Less markup for bots — strips the styling and layout HTML that an AI does not need, so the content is smaller and quicker to parse.
- Joomla-aware conversion — includes Joomla specifics such as categories, tags and Custom Fields, converted into clean text.
- Runs on your own server — the conversion happens locally in Joomla, with no external service involved.
How it works
Install the plugin, or use Install from Web and search for "Joomill". It is a system plugin and publishes automatically.
Your HTML site stays exactly as it is for human visitors.
The plugin adds the Markdown alternate link to your pages' head and serves Markdown when a bot requests it or when .md is added to a URL.
Test it by adding .md to any article URL on your site.
Technical details
System plugin for Joomla
Works with articles and category pages
Converts content to Markdown on the fly; nothing is duplicated or stored as a separate copy
Adds a standard rel="alternate" type="text/markdown" link for discovery
No external service and no account required
Markdown Alternate
- Version:
- 1.2.0
- Developer:
- Joomill
- Last updated:
-
Jun 06 2026
1 day ago - Date added:
- Feb 21 2026
- License:
- GPLv2 or later
- Type:
- Free download
- Includes:
- p
- Compatibility:
- J5 J6
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