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MathJax-LaTeX

This plugin enables MathJax (http://www.mathjax.org) functionality for WordPress (http://www.wordpress.org).

By knowledgeblog·Latex·Free
4.4(11 reviews)
·10K+ active installs·Updated 1 year ago
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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.

4.4/511 reviews
10K+active installs
170K+total downloads
16 yearssince 2010

Overview

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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Ratings & Reviews

4.411 reviews
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Recent Reviews

It does not work
by yecarri·5 months ago

My wordpress version is 6.7.2.

I just added a simple equation, it is not displayed at all.

Good Plugin Saved Me
by zulqadar·9 months ago

This plugin is working fine in 2025. Just write your equation in $$equation$$. That’s all.

enables enables
by samenezes·5 years ago

There is a mistake on the beginning of this product descriotion:

There, we see: “enables enables”

Great! But there are still some bugs.
by Ethan2013·8 years ago·1 reply

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 :

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Easy to use.
by Find Hao·8 years ago

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.

  • This topic was modified 8 years, 3 months ago by Find Hao.

Download Trends

Today: 77Yesterday: 51This week: 451Period total: 26K

Compatibility

WordPress3.0+ requiredTested up to 6.7.5
PHP7.0.0+ required

Version Adoption

v1.3
99.8%
v1.2
0.1%

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Frequently Asked Questions

Changelog

1.3.13

  1. PHP code style fixes
View full changelog on WordPress.org

Contributors

d_swand_swanJared WenerdJared WenerdsjcockellsjcockellphilliplordphilliplordknowledgeblogknowledgeblogPaul SchreiberPaul Schreiber
Plugin Info
Version
1.3.13
Last Updated
Jan 14, 2025
WP Requires
3.0+
Tested Up To
6.7.5
PHP Requires
7.0.0+
Active Installs
10K+
Downloads
170K+
Added
Oct 20, 2010
Business
Free

Tags

latexmathmlmathjaxsciencemathematics

Developer

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knowledgeblog
2 plugins0.0M+ total installs
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