A tiny plugin for WordPress which converts greater than signs, smaller than signs and ampersands to html entities within pre tags.
As of April 2026, Smart Code Escape is a WordPress code plugin with 10 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 1 reviews. It has been downloaded 1.9K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 1.2.1+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2014. Last updated 10 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: WPCode – Insert Headers and Footers +….
A tiny plugin for WordPress which converts greater than signs, smaller than signs and ampersands to html entities within pre tags. It supports semantic syntax you would use when using the Prism highlighter for example. If a code tag sits immediately within a pre tag it will not be escaped.
Code is escaped before it is displayed which gives you easy editing access in the backend as you will always see the unescaped version.
| WordPress | 1.2.1+ requiredTested up to 4.2.39 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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