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Highlighting Code Block

Highlighting Code Block

Content Management Code Snippets & Syntax Highlighting

Highlighting Code Block is a WordPress plugin for Code Snippets & Syntax Highlighting. It ranks #2 of 14 in that group by active installs and was last updated 4 months ago.

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Slug highlighting-code-block

10K Active installs As the directory reports it, rounded to a band
4.5 Rating out of 5 From 20 ratings
41 Releases Since 12 December 2018
Jul 2026 Last release 4 months ago

Maintenance check

Is Highlighting Code Block still maintained?

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

  • Updated recently. The last release was 4 months ago.
  • Slightly behind on testing. Tested up to 7.0.8, while current plugins are tested on 7.1.
  • Well rated. 4.5 out of 5 from 20 ratings.

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Standing

More installed than 95.5% of the directory

Ahead of 45,570 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.

95.5% Percentile by installs Among plugins that report an install count
45,570 Plugins it is ahead of Fewer active installs than this one
2,158 Plugins ahead of it More active installs, or the same published band
How to read that

The directory rounds install counts hard and publishes them as bands, so two plugins showing the same number are not necessarily level. The percentile is computed over the plugins that report a count at all, which excludes the quarter of the directory sitting on the reporting floor.

Details

The record

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

Current version
2.2.1
Requires WordPress
5.6
Tested up to
7.0.8
Requires PHP
5.6
Added to the directory
12 December 2018
Last updated
1 July 2026
Contributors
1
Author
LOOS

Its own tags

  • code
  • code block
  • gutenberg
  • Highlight
  • syntax highlighting

Free text typed by the plugin author. The statistics page explains why they are not a taxonomy.

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