Is Anchor Highlighter free?

Yes, Anchor Highlighter is free to use. It is available as a free plugin on WordPress.org.

How many websites use Anchor Highlighter?

Anchor Highlighter has 10 active installations as tracked by WordPress.org.

What are the best Anchor Highlighter alternatives?

Popular alternatives to Anchor Highlighter include Pages with category and tag, SB RSS feed plus, Timeline Express HTML Excerpts Add-on. You can compare them side-by-side on our comparison pages.

Does Anchor Highlighter work with the latest WordPress?

Anchor Highlighter has been tested up to WordPress 3.4.2. It requires WordPress 3.0.1+ and PHP false+.

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Anchor Highlighter

Name: Anchor Highlighter
Author: Luciano Castro

This plugins adds a class to the anchors that matches the url on your browser so you can style it with css.

By Luciano Castro·Add·Free

·10 active installs·Updated 9 years ago

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As of April 2026, Anchor Highlighter is a WordPress add plugin with 10 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 1.5K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0.1+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2016. Last updated 9 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Pages with category and tag.

0/5Rating

10active installs

1.5K+total downloads

10 yearssince 2016

Overview

Anchor Highlighter is a plugin that adds a class to every anchor on your website whose href link matches the actual URL, this is useful to change the css styling of the current anchor, for example in a menu, or in the archives widget, or in any other use that you could gave it.
You can choose the class to add in the settings-> Anchor Highlighter menu

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