Crayon Syntax Highlighter WordPress Plugin
Syntax Highlighter supporting multiple languages, themes, fonts, highlighting from a URL, or post text.
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 legacy code in
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Usage of Crayon Syntax Highlighter over time
June 2023 — July 2024Between June 2023 and July 2024 the number of sites running this plugin went from 5 071 to 2 527 — down 2 544 (-50.2%).
| Month | Sites | Change |
|---|---|---|
| July 2024 | 2 527 | -292 |
| June 2024 | 2 819 | -92 |
| May 2024 | 2 911 | +4 |
| April 2024 | 2 907 | -42 |
| March 2024 | 2 949 | -297 |
| February 2024 | 3 246 | -191 |
| January 2024 | 3 437 | -274 |
| December 2023 | 3 711 | -136 |
| November 2023 | 3 847 | +6 |
| October 2023 | 3 841 | -307 |
| September 2023 | 4 148 | -572 |
| August 2023 | 4 720 | -233 |
| July 2023 | 4 953 | -118 |
| June 2023 | 5 071 | — |
Themes used with Crayon Syntax Highlighter
Detected most often on sites that run this plugin.
| # | Theme |
|---|---|
| 1 | Twentyfifteen |
| 2 | Twentytwelve |
| 3 | Twentyfourteen |
| 4 | Genesis |
| 5 | Divi |
| 6 | Hueman |
| 7 | Twentythirteen |
| 8 | Twentyeleven |
| 9 | Twentysixteen |
| 10 | Enfold |
| 11 | Sparkling |
| 12 | Avada |
| 13 | Twentyten |
| 14 | Responsive |
| 15 | Iconic-one |
| 16 | Simplicity |
| 17 | Sahifa |
| 18 | Decode |
| 19 | Point |
| 20 | Independent-publisher |
Sites running Crayon Syntax Highlighter
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