As of April 2026, Dark Code is a WordPress code plugin with 10 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 1.2K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.0+ and PHP 7.0+. Available on WordPress.org since 2022. Recently updated within the last 3 months. Top alternative: WPCode – Insert Headers and Footers +….
Dark mode for your code.
By default, the popular Dracula Theme + Highlight.js make for beautifully dark code highlighting on the front-end of your WordPress-powered website. However, you can completely customize the look of code highlighting (under Appearance > Customize > Code Styles) if you like, even changing the overall design to, 🧛 *hiss*, a light mode design.
Simply activate this plugin and any code found within <pre><code>…</code></pre> tags on the front-end of your site will automatically be highlighted according to the detected language.
Dracula: https://draculatheme.com/
Highlight.js: https://highlightjs.org/
| WordPress | 5.0+ requiredTested up to 6.8.5 |
| PHP | 7.0+ required |
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