Code Block – share beautiful code snippets readers can copy

Content Management Code Snippets & Syntax Highlighting

Code Block is a WordPress plugin for Code Snippets & Syntax Highlighting. It ranks #13 of 14 in that group by active installs and was last updated 3 weeks ago.

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Slug code-snippets-block

200 Active installs As the directory reports it, rounded to a band

— Rating out of 5 Nobody has rated this plugin

10 Releases Since 22 April 2025

Oct 2026 Last release 3 weeks ago

Maintenance check

Is Code Block still maintained?

Yes - by every measure the directory publishes, it is actively maintained.

Updated recently. The last release was 3 weeks ago.
Tested with current WordPress. Tested up to 7.1.4; most actively maintained plugins are tested on 7.1.

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Standing

More installed than 72.8% of the directory

Ahead of 34,745 of the 47,729 plugins that report an install count at all. An install figure on its own says nothing; this is what it is worth.

72.8% Percentile by installs Among plugins that report an install count

34,745 Plugins it is ahead of Fewer active installs than this one

12,983 Plugins ahead of it More active installs, or the same published band

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Details

The record

Everything the directory publishes about this plugin, as it was last read.

Current version: 1.1.5
Requires WordPress: 6.5
Tested up to: 7.1.4
Requires PHP: 7.4
Added to the directory: 22 April 2025
Last updated: 18 October 2026
Contributors: 4
Author: bPlugins

Its own tags

code block
Code Highlight
code-snippets
Gutenberg block
syntax highlighting

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