Prism Syntax Highlighter (detached) WordPress Plugin
Adds Prism Syntax Highlighting to WordPress, using custom fields for your code examples.
Integrates the Prism Syntax Highlighting Library in WordPress.
It is called detached, since the code examples are not stuffed into the rich text editor, together with all the other texts and content, but they are added separately as custom fields and just referenced via short tags (like footnotes).
Check Other Notes for usage documentation.
The official development repository is hosted on Github.
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Usage of Prism Syntax Highlighter (detached) over time
June 2023 — July 2024Between June 2023 and July 2024 the number of sites running this plugin went from 9 to 5 — down 4 (-44.4%).
| Month | Sites | Change |
|---|---|---|
| July 2024 | 5 | -2 |
| June 2024 | 7 | +0 |
| May 2024 | 7 | +0 |
| April 2024 | 7 | +0 |
| March 2024 | 7 | +0 |
| February 2024 | 7 | +0 |
| January 2024 | 7 | +0 |
| December 2023 | 7 | +0 |
| November 2023 | 7 | +0 |
| October 2023 | 7 | -2 |
| September 2023 | 9 | +0 |
| August 2023 | 9 | +0 |
| July 2023 | 9 | +0 |
| June 2023 | 9 | — |
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