This plugin lets your readers run snippets of code directly from your blog.
As of April 2026, Run This! is a WordPress code plugin with 10 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 1 reviews. It has been downloaded 2.7K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.3.1+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2010. Last updated 13 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: WPCode – Insert Headers and Footers +….
This plugin lets your readers run snippets of code directly from your blog.
Simply add a class “run-this” and a lang attribute to the PRE tag surrounding the code.
The lang attribute should have one of the following values : ada, assembler, awk, bash, bc, brainf**k, c, csharp, cpp, c99, clips, clojure, cobol, clisp, d, erlang, forth, fortran, go, haskell, icon, intercal, java, rhino, javascript, lua, nemerle, nice, ocaml, pascal, perl, php, pike, prolog, python, python3, r, ruby, scala, scheme, smalltalk, tcl, unlambda, vbasic, whitespace
The code is sent over to Ideone to run; results (output, time and language implementation details) are displayed on your blog, in a table underneath the code.
This plugin is free software released under the GNU General Public License.
| WordPress | 3.3.1+ requiredTested up to 3.3.2 |
| PHP | false+ required |
0.2 : start using CORS instead of a Flash proxy to do cross-domain queries.
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