Blog Terminal provides a terminal-like box for embedding terminal commands within pages or posts.
As of April 2026, Blog Terminal is a WordPress cmd plugin with 100 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 4.0K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 2.5+ and PHP 5.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2017. Last updated 4 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Keyboard Save.
Blog Terminal generates a terminal-like box that you can use to demonstrate terminal output or show the entry of terminal/console commands in a manner that is more demonstrative of actually using a Linux/Unix terminal or Windows cmd shell.
The code is a fork of Post Terminal, which is a fork of WP-Terminal which in turn is a modification of WP-Syntax, a source code highlighter plugin for WordPress.
Unlike Post terminal, it uses [terminal] shorthand for the terminal box. It also shows prompt only on lines explitly set to do that.
The most basic usage is to wrap your terminal blocks with [terminal][/terminal] tags. If no further options are defined within the tag a generic prompt is generated using ‘user@computer’ with no working directory shown. This is similar to…
| WordPress | 2.5+ requiredTested up to 5.8.13 |
| PHP | 5.4+ required |
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