This plugin enables MathJax (http://www.mathjax.org) functionality for WordPress (http://www.wordpress.org).
As of April 2026, MathJax-LaTeX is a WordPress latex plugin with 10K+ active installations and a 4.4/5 rating from 11 reviews. It has been downloaded 170K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0+ and PHP 7.0.0+. Available on WordPress.org since 2010. Last updated 1 year ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are down 24% this week. Top alternative: WP QuickLaTeX.
MathJax enables enables rendering of embedded LaTeX or MathML in HTML pages. This plugin adds this functionality to WordPress. The MathJax JavaScript is inject on-demand only to those pages which require it. This ensures that MathJax is not loaded for all pages, which will otherwise slow loading down.
The MathJax JavaScript can be delivered from your own server, or you can use the Cloudflare Content Distribution Network (CDN), which is the preferred mechanism as it offers increased speed and stability over hosting the JavaScript and configuring the library yourself.
You may embed latex using a variety of different syntaxes. The shortcode (https://codex.wordpress.org/Shortcode_API) syntax is preferred. So [latex]E=mc^2[/latex] will work out of the box. This also forces loading of MathJax.
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My wordpress version is 6.7.2.
I just added a simple equation, it is not displayed at all.
This plugin is working fine in 2025. Just write your equation in $$equation$$. That’s all.
There is a mistake on the beginning of this product descriotion:
There, we see: “enables enables”
I think it’s a very great plugin because we, as a physics lover, are so difficult to type latex equations in any blog. I like wordpress but its WP-latex is not good enough.
I found that MathJax won’t work well when the equation is too many “A_{1}^{2}”, “\text{1233}” or something like that. For example,
$$\large\sum_{i=1}^n\vec{F}_{\text{ext, i}}=\sum_{i=1}^n$$
This equation won’t show LaTeX correctly.
However, if I delete =\sum_{i=1}^n, then everything is fine.
$$\large\sum_{i=1}^n\vec{F}_{\text{ext, i}}$$
I really need your help. I love this plugin so much because it enables me to write a physics blog.
Thank you so much.
You can see this two pictures :
Thanks for your work.
By the way, could you please add the inlineMath config?
Or I have to add
<script type="text/x-mathjax-config">
MathJax.Hub.Config({
tex2jax: {inlineMath: [['$','$'], ['\\(','\\)']]}
});
</script>
in header.php to support the inlineMath.
| WordPress | 3.0+ requiredTested up to 6.7.5 |
| PHP | 7.0.0+ required |
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