WP-Gistpen
A self-hosted alternative to putting your code snippets on Gist.
5(1 reviews)
·10 active installs·Updated 5 years agoAs of April 2026, WP-Gistpen is a WordPress Gist plugin with 10 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 1 reviews. It has been downloaded 5.9K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.7+ and PHP 5.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2014. Last updated 5 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Gist All-In-One Marketing – Live Chat….
5/51 reviews
10active installs
5.9K+total downloads
12 yearssince 2014
Overview
A self-hosted alternative to putting your code snippets on Gist.
You use WordPress because you want control over your writing. Why give Gist or Codepen your code snippets? WP-Gistpen is a self-hosted replacement for your WordPress blog.
Features include:
- Revision saving
- Gist import & export
- PrismJS syntax highlighting
- Prism-based text editor
- oEmbed snippet embedding
Fixed
- Fixed rendering output with JSX language
1.2.0
Note: This bumps the minimum required WordPress version to 4.7. A future release will bump the minimum WordPress version to 5.2 and the minimum PHP version to 5.6. This will be released as 2.0. There is plenty of time, but this is coming.
Added
- Added slug to repo API
- Add copy shortcode button to editor
- Add API pagination to Repo resource
- Bump prism-themes and add…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.7+ requiredTested up to 5.2.24 |
| PHP | 5.4+ required |
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Changelog
This change log follows the Keep a Changelog standards. Versions follows Semantic Versioning.
1.2.1
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