SyntaxHighlighter Evolved
Easily post syntax-highlighted code to your site without having to modify the code at all. As seen on WordPress.com.
4.3(86 reviews)
·20K+ active installs·Updated 1 year agoAs of April 2026, SyntaxHighlighter Evolved is a WordPress php plugin with 20K+ active installations and a 4.3/5 rating from 86 reviews. It has been downloaded 1.1M+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.7+ and PHP 7.0+. Available on WordPress.org since 2007. Last updated 1 year ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are down 14% this week. Top alternative: WPCode – Insert Headers and Footers +….
4.3/586 reviews
20K+active installs
1.1M+total downloads
19 yearssince 2007
Overview
Now with support for the new block editor in WordPress 5.0!
SyntaxHighlighter Evolved allows you to easily post syntax-highlighted code to your site without losing its formatting or making any manual changes. It uses the SyntaxHighlighter JavaScript package by Alex Gorbatchev.
For a live demo, see this plugin’s homepage.
For a list of supported languages (most widely used languages are supported), see the WordPress.com support document.
Development of this plugin is on GitHub.
Translation of the plugin into different languages is on the translation page.
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Works Great! But….
by Andrey Sirota·2 years ago
Thank you for this plugin. It works perfect for pure C and C#, but unfortunately, it doesn’t highlight most code for the Unity game engine: C# scripts and Shaders. Please add support for this.
Dont work
by versuri·2 years ago·1 reply
не работает. строки php просто закомментирует, в визуальном редакторе не отображается
Works, But if you copy code and wan to to use it show error
by janothemes·3 years ago·3 replies
It works and show code beautifully on pages, But if you copied that code and want to use it, the it shows errors, Looks like it add some spaces,
I tried it with php shorcode, and when i copied the code from the frontend of the page, It gives Parse error: syntax error, unexpected…
i find this plugin
by Alex·3 years ago·1 reply
Thank you
really awsome
by dreamsoft·4 years ago
so useful and great! many thanks
Download Trends
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 5.7+ requiredTested up to 6.7.5 |
| PHP | 7.0+ required |
Version Adoption
v3.7
71.9%
v3.6
11.0%
v3.5
7.7%
v3.2
5.2%
Other
4.2%
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Changelog
Version 3.7.2
- Add more explicit license information #266
- Fix escaping when language is unknown #283
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