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WP LaTeX

By Michael Adams (mdawaffe)

Content Management / Blog & Article Publishing

WP LaTeX Review - In-Depth Analysis

WP LaTeX generates PNG images from LaTeX code in your posts and comments. It simplifies math blogging by integrating LaTeX with WordPress.

Performance Overview

WPS Score

6.62/10

User Rating

5/5 (based on 10+ reviews)

Active Installations

700+

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

WP LaTeX creates PNG images from inline LaTeX code in your posts and comments. Writing equations and formulae is a snap with LaTeX, but really hard on a website. No longer. This plugin combines the power of LaTeX and the simplicity of WordPress to give you the ultimate in math blogging platforms.

For most users, we recommend using Jetpack and its Beautiful Math feature. WP LaTeX offers additional control since it allows you to host your own LaTeX image server.

Explore other plugins like Steve Mayer's LatexRender Plugin, which is based on a LaTeX Rendering Class originally written by Benjamin Zeiss. Its requirements are somewhat different and has a different installation procedure.

Other Notable Features

Here are a few other notable features of this free WP LaTeX plugin.

LaTeX

Math

Equations

FAQ

This plugin uses the WordPress Shortcode Syntax.
Enter your LaTeX code inside of a [latex]...[/latex] shortcode.

[latex]e^{\i \pi} + 1 = 0[/latex]

You may alternatively use the following equivalent syntax reminiscent of LaTeX’s inline
math mode syntax.

$latex e^{\i \pi} + 1 = 0$

That is, if you would have written $some-code$ in a LaTeX document, just
write $latex some-code$ in your WordPress post.

For the curious, the shortcode syntax is slightly faster for WordPress to process, but the
inline syntax is a little easier for us humans to read. Pick your poison.

Yes. You can set the default text color and background color of the images in the
Plugins -> WP LaTeX admin page.

You can also change the colors on an image by image basis by specifying color
and background attributes inside the LaTeX shortcode. For example:

[latex color="ff0000" background="00ff00"]e^{\i \pi} + 1 = 0[/latex]

will produce an image with a bright green background and a bright red foreground color.
Colors are specified in RGB with the standard 6 digit hex notation.

The equivalent “inline” syntax uses fg and bg parameters after the LaTeX code.

$latex e^{\i \pi} + 1 = 0&bg=00ff00&fg=ff0000$

You can specify a size attribute in the LaTeX shortcode:

[latex size="4"]e^{\i \pi} + 1 = 0[/latex]

or, equivalently, an s parameter after the LaTeX inline syntax:

$latex e^{\i \pi} + 1 = 0&s=4$

The size can be any integer from -4 to 4 (0 is the default). These numbers correspond to
the following LaTeX size commands.

    size = LaTeX size     -4     \tiny     -3     \scriptsize     -2     \footnotesize     -1     \small     0      \normalsize (12pt)     1      \large     2      \Large     3      \LARGE     4      \huge