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SyntaxHighlighter Evolved

SyntaxHighlighter Evolved

Content Management Code Snippets & Syntax Highlighting

SyntaxHighlighter Evolved is a WordPress plugin for Code Snippets & Syntax Highlighting. It ranks #1 of 14 in that group by active installs and was last updated 2 years ago.

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Slug syntaxhighlighter

20K Active installs As the directory reports it, rounded to a band
4.3 Rating out of 5 From 86 ratings
31 Releases Since 10 September 2007
Mar 2025 Last release 2 years ago

Maintenance check

Is SyntaxHighlighter Evolved still maintained?

Probably not - several signs point to a plugin that is no longer being looked after. Compare the alternatives below.

  • No release for a while. The last one was 2 years ago.
  • Not tested with recent WordPress. Tested only up to 6.7.11; current plugins are tested on 7.1.
  • Well rated. 4.3 out of 5 from 86 ratings.

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SyntaxHighlighter Evolved alternatives

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#2

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Standing

More installed than 97.1% of the directory

Ahead of 46,331 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.

97.1% Percentile by installs Among plugins that report an install count
46,331 Plugins it is ahead of Fewer active installs than this one
1,397 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
3.7.2
Requires WordPress
5.7
Tested up to
6.7.11
Requires PHP
7.0
Added to the directory
10 September 2007
Last updated
3 March 2025
Contributors
3
Author
Alex Mills
Support threads resolved
1 of 1

Its own tags

  • code
  • php
  • source
  • sourcecode
  • syntax highlighting

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

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