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CodeColorer

Syntax highlighting for code snippets in posts, comments, and RSS, with inline code, themes, and line numbers.

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Tested up to WordPress 7.1
Current version0.12.0
WordPress coverageTested up to WordPress 7.1
Minimum stackWP 4.0 · PHP 7.0
Directory statusactive
Last directory update15 Aug 20262mo ago
Active installations1K+Adoption metric — not a quality score
WordPress.org rating4.9 / 5 from 11 ratings
Official packageDirect from WordPress.org

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WP PlugIndex currently records CodeColorer version 0.12.0 as active, updated 2mo ago and tested up to WordPress 7.1.

Overview

About this plugin

CodeColorer lets you insert syntax-highlighted code snippets into posts, comments, and feeds.

x line, with a small set of project-local maintenance patches for current PHP and WordPress compatibility.

Plugin based on GeSHi library, which supports most languages. CodeColorer has various nice features:

  • syntax highlighting in RSS feeds
  • syntax highlighting of a single line of code (inline)
  • syntax highlighting of code in comments
  • line numbers
  • automatic links to the documentation inserting
  • code block intelligent scroll detection (short code would have a short block, for a long one the block height would be fixed and a scrollbar would appear)
  • predefined color themes (Slush & Poppies, Blackboard, Dawn, Mac Classic, Twitlight, Vibrant Ink, Railscasts, Solarized Light, Solarized Dark)
  • syntax colors customization in CSS file
  • code protect from mangling by WordPress (for example, quotes, double-dashes, and others would look just right as you entered)

Support

info. I will try my best to answer you.

If you want to contribute your code, see the Development section under the Other Notes tab.

Supported languages

Here is the list of languages supported by CodeColorer: 4cs, 6502acme, 6502kickass, 6502tasm, 68000devpac, abap, actionscript, actionscript3, ada, aimms, algol68, apache, applescript, apt_sources, arm, asm, asp, asymptote, autoconf, autohotkey, autoit, avisynth, awk, bascomavr, bash, basic4gl, batch, bf, biblatex, bibtex, blitzbasic, bnf, boo, c, c_loadrunner, c_mac, c_winapi, caddcl, cadlisp, ceylon, cfdg, cfm, chaiscript, chapel, cil, clojure, cmake, cobol, coffeescript, cpp-qt, cpp-winapi, cpp, csharp, css, cuesheet, d, dart, dcl, dcpu16, dcs, delphi, diff, div, dos, dot, e, ecmascript, eiffel, email, epc, erlang, euphoria, ezt, f1, falcon, fo, fortran, freebasic, freeswitch, fsharp, gambas, gdb, genero, genie, gettext, glsl, gml, gnuplot, go, groovy, gwbasic, haskell, haxe, hicest, hq9plus, html4strict, icon, idl, ini, inno, intercal, io, ispfpanel, j, java, java5, javascript, jcl, jquery, julia, kixtart, klonec, klonecpp, kotlin, latex, lb, ldif, lisp, llvm, locobasic, logtalk, lolcode, lotusformulas, lotusscript, lscript, lsl2, lua, m68k, magiksf, make, mapbasic, mathematica, matlab, mercury, metapost, mirc, mk-61, mmix, modula2, modula3, mpasm, mxml, mysql, nagios, netrexx, newlisp, nginx, nimrod, nsis, oberon2, objc, objeck, ocaml-brief, ocaml, octave, oobas, oorexx, oracle11, oracle8, oxygene, oz, parasail, parigp, pascal, pcre, per, perl, perl6, pf, phix, php-brief, php, pic16, pike, pixelbender, pli, plsql, postgresql, postscript, povray, powerbuilder, powershell, proftpd, progress, prolog, properties, providex, purebasic, pycon, pys60, python, q, qbasic, qml, racket, rails, rbs, rebol, reg, rexx, robots, rpmspec, rsplus, ruby, rust, sas, sass, scala, scheme, scilab, scl, sdlbasic, smalltalk, smarty, spark, sparql, sql, standardml, stonescript, swift, systemverilog, tcl, tclegg, teraterm, texgraph, text, thinbasic, tsql, twig, typoscript, unicon, upc, urbi, uscript, vala, vb, vbnet, vbscript, vedit, verilog, vhdl, vim, visualfoxpro, visualprolog, whitespace, whois, winbatch, xbasic, xml, xojo, xorg_conf, xpp, xyscript, yaml, z80, zxbasic.

Development

Sources of this plugin are available both in SVN and Git:

  • WordPress SVN repository
  • GitHub

The GitHub repository includes local contributor tooling based on mise, Composer, pnpm, and wp-env. A typical setup is:

  • mise install
  • mise run bootstrap
  • mise run test
  • mise run wp-start

Feel free to check them out, make your changes and send me patches or pull requests. Promise, I will apply every patch (of course, if they add a value to the product). info.

If you’re interested in translating CodeColorer to your language, please check out the translation page for the plugin.

Customization

Syntax coloring is highly customizable: you could change the color scheme for all languages or a specific language. css file. To change colors for all languages edit lines below Color scheme section.

There is a simple mapping between TextMate color themes and CodeColorer ones:

sy0 { color: #000000; }

css file to get more examples.

WordPress.org metadata

Plugin tags

Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.

  • code
  • comments
  • highlighting
  • snippet
  • syntax
Compatibility & maintenance

Compatibility & maintenance

Tested with WP 7.1

Marked as tested with the current WordPress 7.1 release.

Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to7.1
Minimum requirementsWordPress 4.0 · PHP 7.0
Update activity15 Aug 20262mo ago

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