Syntax-highlighting Code Block

Name: Syntax-highlighting Code Block (with Server-side Rendering)
Rating: 5 (26 reviews)
Author: Weston Ruter

Syntax-highlighting Code Block (with Server-side Rendering)

by Weston Ruter · WordPress.org page · Website

v1.5.2 Tested up to WP 7.0.4 PHP 7.4+

Syntax-highlighting Code Block has 1,000+ active installs on WordPress.org and 45,018 downloads all time. We have tracked it since September 4, 2026; download trends appear after 30 days of data. The last update was on May 19, 2026, tested up to WordPress 7.0.4.

Active installs

1,000+

Total downloads

45,018

Downloads, last 30 days

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available after 30 days of tracking

30-day growth

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tracking since September 4, 2026

Is Syntax-highlighting Code Block well maintained?

Support threads resolved

No open threads

nothing waiting on the WordPress.org forum

WordPress compatibility

Behind

tested up to WordPress 7.0.4, not yet with the current 7.1

One-star reviews

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Syntax-highlighting Code Block reviews and ratings

26 reviews on WordPress.org, with the most recent ones as their authors posted them.

All reviews

5.0 out of 5

26 reviews

5★: 26
4★: 0
3★: 0
2★: 0
1★: 0

Apr 11, 2024

code block is not 100% of wp users bro

no one wants to conduct a real study to see how many of use hate the code block.

audioscavenger
Jun 3, 2023

Very good job!

missed just a download and/or copy button. also for theme, maybe is best to update "usage instruction"! only after some search I understood can be changed via customized menu. anyway, looks so good. ty.

Salvatore Noschese
May 25, 2023

This works nicely.

Thanks for this. It's really nice.

OllieJones
Nov 4, 2022

Nice plugin, thank you !

Works great, thanks !

Marie Comet
Jul 13, 2022

It's time to switch to get more performance!

I confess, I've been a happy user of Code Syntax Block for quite a while — a plugin which the author, Weston Router, clearly states that Syntax Highlighting (Code Block) is based upon. Alas, however, all the pages I had with the older plugin would suffer from an inevitable rendering slowdown — there is so much Javascript on web pages these days that such a slowdown is inevitable, and this is especially true to those scripts that attempt to recognise the language automatically — something that will consume plenty of CPU cycles on the browser. Parsing the language is also no mean feature by itself (I know, I've been doing some experiments for some code editors, and, believe me, it's tough!). So why force the end-user to bear the burden of all that work? It makes much more sense to pre-render everything on the server, and then let the web server send the already-parsed HTML from its cache. That way, the end-user will already have everything on their browser, no need to wait for parsing! Also, if you 'forget' to set the language that your code is in (it happens...), the auto-detecting feature will only run on the server, and just once, when you save the post you're writing. Even if it takes a fraction of a second more to save, think of how much time all those users will save when they get the already-rendered page! So, this plugin is definitely recommended. As a bonus: if you are already using some sort of code block on your WP setup, once you turn off whatever plugin you were using, Syntax Highlighting (Code Block) will immediately pick it up and start its magic (you might need to open and save all the pages you've got code on, though — I'm not quite sure if that's really the case). That means zero effort (beyond saving) — what you already had will continue to work. And, naturally enough, when you disable this plugin, your code block will just revert to the internal WP code block instead — nothing will be 'lost' that way! If you're still hesitant and reading this to th

Gwyneth Llewelyn
Apr 19, 2022

Muy bueno!

No agrega bloques nuevos a WordPress, ya que potencia el bloque de código existente. Soporta gran cantidad de Lenguajes, puedes mostrar líneas y marcar ciertas partes del código. ¡Vaya todo lo que necesito! Y no hay que configurar nada!

diegoamorin