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Pastacode

Pastacode

Content Management Code Snippets & Syntax Highlighting

Pastacode is a WordPress plugin for Code Snippets & Syntax Highlighting. It ranks #11 of 14 in that group by active installs and was last updated 8 months ago.

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Slug pastacode

400 Active installs As the directory reports it, rounded to a band
4.9 Rating out of 5 From 14 ratings
14 Releases Since 10 October 2013
Mar 2026 Last release 8 months ago

Maintenance check

Is Pastacode still maintained?

Mostly - but at least one sign below is worth checking before you rely on it.

  • No release for a while. The last one was 8 months ago.
  • Slightly behind on testing. Tested up to 6.9.11, while current plugins are tested on 7.1.
  • Well rated. 4.9 out of 5 from 14 ratings.

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Standing

More installed than 79.1% of the directory

Ahead of 37,763 of the 47,734 plugins that report an install count at all. An install figure on its own says nothing; this is what it is worth.

79.1% Percentile by installs Among plugins that report an install count
37,763 Plugins it is ahead of Fewer active installs than this one
9,970 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
3.0.1
Requires WordPress
4.0
Tested up to
6.9.11
Requires PHP
7.0
Added to the directory
10 October 2013
Last updated
12 March 2026
Contributors
2
Author
Willy Bahuaud

Its own tags

  • block
  • code
  • Github
  • sourcecode
  • syntax

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