CodeColorer
Syntax highlighting for code snippets in posts, comments, and RSS, with inline code, themes, and line numbers.
4.9(11 reviews)
·1.0K+ active installs·Updated 3 weeks agoAs of April 2026, CodeColorer is a WordPress code plugin with 1.0K+ active installations and a 4.9/5 rating from 11 reviews. It has been downloaded 125K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.0+ and PHP 7.0+. Available on WordPress.org since 2007. Actively maintained — updated within the last month. Downloads are up 11% this week. Top alternative: WPCode – Insert Headers and Footers +….
4.9/511 reviews
1.0K+active installs
125K+total downloads
19 yearssince 2007
Overview
CodeColorer lets you insert syntax-highlighted code snippets into posts, comments, and feeds.
CodeColorer currently bundles GeSHi 1.0.9.0 from the upstream 1.0.x line, with a small set of project-local maintenance patches for current PHP and WordPress compatibility.
Plugin based on GeSHi library, which supports most languages. CodeColorer has various nice features:
- syntax highlighting in RSS feeds
- syntax highlighting of a single line of code (inline)
- syntax highlighting of code in comments
- line numbers
- automatic links to the documentation inserting
- code block intelligent scroll detection (short code would have a short block, for a long one the block height would be fixed and a scrollbar would appear)
- predefined color themes (Slush & Poppies, Blackboard, Dawn, Mac Classic, Twitlight,…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Still working in WordPress 5.5.3…
by hummdis·5 years ago
This is a great plugin and despite some quirks, which I think are in WordPress, it works great, even in WordPress 5.5.3.
Great Plugin
by rob101011·6 years ago
I use this plugin to display code snippets in service documentation and it looks great.
To maintain support with wordpress 5+ use this plugin alongside the classic editor plugin created by wordpress: https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/classic-editor/
Great Awesome Work
by mariushosting·8 years ago
Hope the author continue to update this plugin. IS the best plugin for code style.
Work perfect on wordpress 4.9.2.
Beautiful code
by Steffen Voß·8 years ago
Very nice plugin, that makes my shitty code look great. 😀
Can be improved
by Samuel Santos·11 years ago
Should replace the lang attribute with class or data-lang attributes.
Must importantly, should use <pre> instead of <code> elements.
Download Trends
Today: 18Yesterday: 13This week: 103Period total: 3K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.0+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 7.0+ required |
Version Adoption
v0.10
38.8%
v0.9
33.4%
v0.11
27.8%
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Changelog
0.11.0
- Fixed comment protection for suffixed shortcodes such as
[cc_php]and[cci_php]. - Modernized admin asset loading and hardening around settings sanitization, nonce-protected dismissals, and direct-access guards.
- Improved documentation and release metadata, including clearer usage docs and safer WordPress.org asset publishing.
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