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SyntaxHighlighter Evolved

By Alex Mills

Content Management / Blog & Article Publishing

SyntaxHighlighter Evolved Review - In-Depth Analysis

Easily post syntax-highlighted code to your site without modifying the code. Supports the new block editor in WordPress 5.0.

Performance Overview

WPS Score

6.74/10

User Rating

4.3/5 (based on 86+ reviews)

Active Installations

20,000+

Update Frequency

Below Average It is calculated using the weighted average of same category plugins.

Security Score

1 / 10 (Very Low Risk) It is calculated using the weighted average of all versions.

What It Does

SyntaxHighlighter Evolved allows you to easily post syntax-highlighted code to your site without losing its formatting or making any manual changes. It uses the SyntaxHighlighter JavaScript package by Alex Gorbatchev.

For a live demo, see this plugin's homepage. For a list of supported languages, see the WordPress.com support document.

Development of this plugin is on GitHub. Translation of the plugin into different languages is available on the translation page.

As seen on WordPress.com.

Other Notable Features

Here are a few other notable features of this free SyntaxHighlighter Evolved plugin.

syntax highlighting

code

source code

Screenshots

FAQ

Make sure your theme’s footer.php file has <?php wp_footer(); ?> somewhere inside of it, otherwise the plugin won’t be able to do it’s thing.

Contributors and developers

“SyntaxHighlighter Evolved” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Alex Mills

Automattic

Donncha O Caoimh (a11n)

Free Version Live Demo

WPS

6.74

Average

Pro version

Ratings

4.3 out of 5 | 86

Version

3.7.2

Last updated

1 year ago

Active installations

20,000+

WordPress version

6.7.5 or higher

PHP version

7.0 or higher

Languages

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SyntaxHighlighter Evolved Review - In-Depth Analysis

Performance Overview

What It Does

Other Notable Features

Screenshots

FAQ

Contributors and developers

Ratings

Reviews (86)

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Changelog

Security Status

Secure

No Unpatched Vulnerabilities

Known Vulnerabilities (3)

WPS

6.74

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