Urvanov Syntax Highlighter
Reincarnation of Crayon Syntax Highlighter. Syntax Highlighter supporting multiple languages, themes, fonts, highlighting from a URL, or post text.
4.5(19 reviews)
·3.0K+ active installs·Updated 9 months agoAs of April 2026, Urvanov Syntax Highlighter is a WordPress code plugin with 3.0K+ active installations and a 4.5/5 rating from 19 reviews. It has been downloaded 64K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 6.7+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2019. Downloads are up 47% this week. Top alternative: WPCode – Insert Headers and Footers +….
4.5/519 reviews
3.0K+active installs
64K+total downloads
7 yearssince 2019
Overview
Reincarnation of Crayon Syntax Highlighter. Somewhere in documentation and in UI it still shows like Crayon. Don’t be scrared of this.
Use special Urvanov Syntax Highlighter block in new posts. Don’t use standard Code block.
A Syntax Highlighter built in PHP and jQuery that supports customizable languages and themes.
It can highlight from a URL, or WordPress post text. Crayon makes it easy to manage Language files and define
custom language elements with regular expressions.
It also supports some neat features like:
- Integrated Theme Editor!
- Tag Editor in both Visual & HTML editors
- Toggled plain code
- Toggled line numbers
- Copy/paste code
- Open code in a new window (popup)
- Line wrapping
- Code expanding
- Minimizing
- bbPress 2 support
- Converting legac…
Ratings & Reviews
4.519 reviews
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Recent Reviews
useless for classic editor users
by audioscavenger·1 year ago·1 reply
How about the other half of WordPress users? We stink or what?
Very usefull plugin
by vasimov·2 years ago·1 reply
Im using it in wordpress 6.4.3. But there is one important thing: it doesnt work with default editor. I installed plugin Classic Editor, now it’s working great!
Wonderfull
by erden15·2 years ago
I like it a lot. It works great.
AMAZINg!
by pjohnst5·4 years ago
This plugin is literally the best one out there.
Of all the ones I have reviews (many) this one has all the features, and MORE!!!
Awesome, absolutely phenomenal
Must have
- copy button ✅
- languages ✅
Bash, c#, Docker, JSON, Go, Powershell, Python
Would be nice
- in-line support ⭐️
- Multi-line has folding option ⭐️
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1. Enlighter
2. My Syntax Highlighter
3. Syntax Highlighter for Theme/Plugin Editor
4. Prismatic
5. SyntaxHighlighter Evolved
6. Highlighting Code Block
7. CodeMirror Blocks
8. WP Githuber MD - WordPress Markdown Editor
9. Urvanov Syntax Highlighter
10. Code Syntax Block
11. Syntax-Highlighting Code Block
12. Markdown pure
1. Enlighter
- copy button ✅
- languages ✅
- in-line-support ⭐
- multi-line folding ❌
Gutenberg looks pretty verbose
7. CodeMirror Blocks
- copy button ✅
- languages ✅
- in-line-support ❌
- multi-line folding ❌
Looks really nice
Themes I like: Lesser-dark, do they have vscode theme?, Lucario, Material, Mbo, Monokai
9. Urvanov Syntax Highlighter
- copy button ✅
- languages ❌ No docker buuut...
- in-line-support ✅
- multi-line folding 🌟
10. Code Syntax Block
- copy button
- languages
- in-line-support
- multi-line folding
11. Syntax-Highlighting Code Block
- copy button
- languages
- in-line-support
- multi-line folding
################ No thanks ########################
12. HTML Editor Syntax Highlighter❌
Not even a frontend highlighter
- copy button
- languages
- in-line-support
- multi-line folding
2. My Syntax Highlighter
- copy button ❌
- languages 🟡 (have to pay)
- in-line-support
- multi-line folding 🌟
3. Syntax Highlighter for Theme/Plugin Editor ❌
not even frontend highlighter
- copy button
- languages
- in-line-support
- multi-line folding
4. Prismatic
- copy button ✅
- languages ❌ No docker, but has markdown
- in-line-support ❌
- multi-line folding ❌
Just didn't like it
5. SyntaxHighlighter Evolved
- copy button ❌
- languages ❌ No bash or Dockerfile
- in-line-support ❌
- multi-line folding ❌ not intuitive
6. Highlighting Code Block
- copy button ✅
- languages ❌ No docker and go, no YAML
- in-line-support ❌
- multi-line folding ❌
8. WP Githuber MD - WordPress Markdown Editor
- copy button ✅
- languages 🟡 doesn't highlight very well
- in-line-support ❌
- multi-line folding ❌ not intuitive
Just don't like it
Copy button was great thoughCrayon resurrected
by Luis Alejandre·4 years ago
Thank you so much, Fedor, for bringing Crayon´s features back to us without the need for any content changes and without the fear for PHP updates.
Download Trends
Today: 21Yesterday: 29This week: 213Period total: 11K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 6.7+ requiredTested up to 6.8.5 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Version Adoption
v2.8
50.2%
v2.9
49.8%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
2.9.0
- ADDED
- Use parse_blocks instead of full text scan to support Gutenberg. For old posts created by Classic Editor use full text scan as before.
Contributors
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