Highlight Source Pro WordPress Plugin
Powerful, XHTML-compliant, server-side code highlighting for pretty much all languages
Powerful, flexible, XHTML-compliant, server-side code highlighting, credits for everything but 'making it a plugin' go to Jay Pipes and GeSHi.
Features
- Highlight sources of any language
- automatically, server-side (no javascripts)
- XHTML-Compliant,
<div>,<ul>,<span>with class-attributes and a css-file are used for styling - optionally add a heading for every code-block
- optionally specify line-number offset (BREAKS XHTML COMPLIANCE)
- optionally don't display line-numbers
- set per-codeblock if the code is html_entity_encoded or not
- only parses
<pre>-tags
code
Formatting
highlight
markup
posts
source
syntax
Sites running Highlight Source Pro, click to open one
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Usage of Highlight Source Pro over time
June 2023 — July 2024Between June 2023 and July 2024 the number of sites running this plugin went from 55 to 35 — down 20 (-36.4%).
| Month | Sites | Change |
|---|---|---|
| July 2024 | 35 | -1 |
| June 2024 | 36 | -2 |
| May 2024 | 38 | +0 |
| April 2024 | 38 | +0 |
| March 2024 | 38 | -9 |
| February 2024 | 47 | -2 |
| January 2024 | 49 | -2 |
| December 2023 | 51 | -1 |
| November 2023 | 52 | +0 |
| October 2023 | 52 | +0 |
| September 2023 | 52 | -2 |
| August 2023 | 54 | -1 |
| July 2023 | 55 | +0 |
| June 2023 | 55 | — |
Themes used with Highlight Source Pro
Detected most often on sites that run this plugin.
| # | Theme |
|---|---|
| 1 | Cleanr |
| 2 | Twentyfourteen |
| 3 | Twentyten |
| 4 | Twentyeleven |
| 5 | Conexus-child |
| 6 | Make |
| 7 | Onlinehowto |
| 8 | Twentytwelve |
| 9 | Hotnewspro |
| 10 | G-white |
| 11 | Apz.v1.0.2 |
| 12 | Darksun |
| 13 | Sharp |
| 14 | Sight |
| 15 | Magicebg |
| 16 | Mantra |
| 17 | X7 |
| 18 | Isabelle |
| 19 | Arras |
| 20 | Lightword |
Sites running Highlight Source Pro
All sites in the collection35 examples from the collection. Open any site to see the theme and plugins we found on it.
