CodeColorer WordPress Plugin
CodeColorer is a syntax highlighting plugin which allows to insert code
snippets into blog posts. Supports color themes, code in RSS, comments.
CodeColorer is the plugin which allows you to insert code snippets into the post with nice syntax highlighting.
Plugin based on GeSHi library, which supports most languages. CodeColorer has various nice features:
- syntax highlighting in RSS feeds
- syntax highlighting of single line of code (inline)
- syntax highlighting of code in comments
- line numbers
- automatic links to the documentation inserting
- code block intelligent scroll detection (short code would have short block, for long one block height would be fixed and scrollbar would appear)
- predefined color themes (Slush & Poppies, Blackboard, Dawn, Mac Classic, Twitlight, Vibrant Ink, Railscasts)
- syntax colors customization in CSS file
- code protect from mangling by WordPress (for example, quotes, double-dashes, and others would look just rig
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Sites running CodeColorer, click to open one
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Usage of CodeColorer over time
June 2023 — July 2024Between June 2023 and July 2024 the number of sites running this plugin went from 1 058 to 679 — down 379 (-35.8%).
| Month | Sites | Change |
|---|---|---|
| July 2024 | 679 | -55 |
| June 2024 | 734 | -11 |
| May 2024 | 745 | +0 |
| April 2024 | 745 | -9 |
| March 2024 | 754 | -33 |
| February 2024 | 787 | -43 |
| January 2024 | 830 | -46 |
| December 2023 | 876 | -29 |
| November 2023 | 905 | +1 |
| October 2023 | 904 | -40 |
| September 2023 | 944 | -84 |
| August 2023 | 1 028 | -23 |
| July 2023 | 1 051 | -7 |
| June 2023 | 1 058 | — |
Themes used with CodeColorer
Detected most often on sites that run this plugin.
| # | Theme |
|---|---|
| 1 | Twentyeleven |
| 2 | Twentytwelve |
| 3 | Twentyfifteen |
| 4 | Twentyfourteen |
| 5 | Twentyten |
| 6 | Genesis |
| 7 | Responsive |
| 8 | Suffusion |
| 9 | Twentythirteen |
| 10 | Thematic |
| 11 | Hueman |
| 12 | Inove |
| 13 | Atahualpa |
| 14 | Bliss |
| 15 | Lightword |
| 16 | Zbench |
| 17 | Iconic-one |
| 18 | Graphene |
| 19 | Divi |
| 20 | Contango |
Sites running CodeColorer
All sites in the collection100 examples from the collection. Open any site to see the theme and plugins we found on it.
