WPBetterCodeHighlighting

WpBetterCodeHighlighting is built on the popular JS Library PrismJS. Unlike other code snippet plugins this one is completely free and uses a shortcode rather than a Gutenberg block this means it works with themes too. Allowing you to showcase code snippets on your wordpress tutorial site or blog site.

WpBetterCodeHighlighting Key Features

• Built on PrismJS.
• Optional copy button with custom success and error messaging.
• Lightweight.
• Whitelabel it and use it for free.
• Free.
• Embed your code.
• Works well on blogs and tutorial sites.
• Supports over 290 languages.
• Auto syntax highlighting.
• WpBetterCodeHighlighting uses a shortcode allowing greater flexibility over other plugins that use gutenberg blocks.

Example usage (shortcode):

[wpbch language='html']<p>Your code goes here.</p>
<p>This would be another line of code etc etc.</p>
[/wpbch]

Arguments for shortcode:

language – default null, will display an error if a language acronym is not provided, see supported languages section below for a list of supported languages.
line_numbers – default true provide false if you wish to disable line numbers.
copy_button – default true provide false if you wish to disable the copy button.
copy_button_text – default Copy provide a different value if you wish to change the copy button default text.
copy_button_success – default Copied! Provide a different value if you wish to change the success copy button message.
copy_button_error – default Error provide a different value if you wish to change the error copy button message.

Full Shortcode Example:

[wpbch language='html' line_numbers=true copy_button=true copy_button_text='Copy Me' copy_button_success='Yay you copied me' copy_button_error='Oops you failed to copy me']<p>Your code goes here.</p>[/wpbch]

Replace html with one of the supported languages acronyms below. For example apacheconf for Apache Config.

Full List Of Supported languages:

Language Name | Acronym to be used in language argument

• ABAP — abap
• ABNF — abnf
• ActionScript — actionscript
• Ada — ada
• Agda — agda
• AL — al
• ANTLR4 — antlr4, g4
• Apache Configuration — apacheconf
• Apex — apex
• APL — apl
• AppleScript — applescript
• AQL — aql
• Arduino — arduino, ino
• ARFF — arff
• ARM Assembly — armasm, arm-asm
• Arturo — arturo, art
• AsciiDoc — asciidoc, adoc
• ASP.NET (C#) — aspnet
• 6502 Assembly — asm6502
• Atmel AVR Assembly — asmatmel
• AutoHotkey — autohotkey
• AutoIt — autoit
• AviSynth — avisynth, avs
• Avro IDL — avro-idl, avdl
• AWK — awk, gawk
• Bash — bash, sh, shell
• BASIC — basic
• Batch — batch
• BBcode — bbcode, shortcode
• BBj — bbj
• Bicep — bicep
• Birb — birb
• Bison — bison
• BNF — bnf, rbnf
• BQN — bqn
• Brainfuck — brainfuck
• BrightScript — brightscript
• Bro — bro
• BSL (1C:Enterprise) — bsl, oscript
• C — c
• C# — csharp, cs, dotnet
• C++ — cpp
• CFScript — cfscript, cfc
• ChaiScript — chaiscript
• CIL — cil
• Cilk/C — cilkc, cilk-c
• Cilk/C++ — cilkcpp, cilk-cpp, cilk
• Clojure — clojure
• CMake — cmake
• COBOL — cobol
• CoffeeScript — coffeescript, coffee
• Concurnas — concurnas, conc
• Content-Security-Policy — csp
• Cooklang — cooklang
• Coq — coq
• Crystal — crystal
• CSS Extras — css-extras
• CSV — csv
• CUE — cue
• Cypher — cypher
• D — d
• Dart — dart
• DataWeave — dataweave
• DAX — dax
• Dhall — dhall
• Diff — diff
• Django/Jinja2 — django, jinja2
• DNS zone file — dns-zone-file, dns-zone
• Docker — docker, dockerfile
• DOT (Graphviz) — dot, gv
• EBNF — ebnf
• EditorConfig — editorconfig
• Eiffel — eiffel
• EJS — ejs, eta
• Elixir — elixir
• Elm — elm
• Embedded Lua templating — etlua
• ERB — erb
• Erlang — erlang
• Excel Formula — excel-formula, xlsx, xls
• F# — fsharp
• Factor — factor
• False — false
• Firestore security rules — firestore-security-rules
• Flow — flow
• Fortran — fortran
• FreeMarker Template Language — ftl
• GameMaker Language — gml, gamemakerlanguage
• GAP (CAS) — gap
• G-code — gcode
• GDScript — gdscript
• GEDCOM — gedcom
• gettext — gettext, po
• Gherkin — gherkin
• Git — git
• GLSL — glsl
• GN — gn, gni
• GNU Linker Script — linker-script, ld
• Go — go
• Go module — go-module, go-mod
• Gradle — gradle
• GraphQL — graphql
• Groovy — groovy
• Haml — haml
• Handlebars — handlebars, hbs, mustache
• Haskell — haskell, hs
• Haxe — haxe
• HCL — hcl
• HLSL — hlsl
• Hoon — hoon
• HTTP — http
• HTTP Public-Key-Pins — hpkp
• HTTP Strict-Transport-Security — hsts
• IchigoJam — ichigojam
• Icon — icon
• ICU Message Format — icu-message-format
• Idris — idris, idr
• .ignore — ignore, gitignore, hgignore, npmignore
• Inform 7 — inform7
• Ini — ini
• Io — io
• J — j
• Java — java
• JavaDoc — javadoc
• JavaDoc-like — javadoclike
• Java stack trace — javastacktrace
• Jexl — jexl
• Jolie — jolie
• JQ — jq
• JSDoc — jsdoc
• JS Extras — js-extras
• JSON — json, webmanifest
• JSON5 — json5
• JSONP — jsonp
• JS stack trace — jsstacktrace
• JS Templates — js-templates
• Julia — julia
• Keepalived Configure — keepalived
• Keyman — keyman
• Kotlin — kotlin, kt, kts
• KuMir (КуМир) — kumir, kum
• Kusto — kusto
• LaTeX — latex, tex, context
• Latte — latte
• Less — less
• LilyPond — lilypond, ly
• Liquid — liquid
• Lisp — lisp, emacs, elisp, emacs-lisp
• LiveScript — livescript
• LLVM IR — llvm
• Log file — log
• LOLCODE — lolcode
• Lua — lua
• Magma (CAS) — magma
• Makefile — makefile
• Markdown — markdown, md
• Markup templating — markup-templating
• Mata — mata
• MATLAB — matlab
• MAXScript — maxscript
• MEL — mel
• Mermaid — mermaid
• METAFONT — metafont
• Mizar — mizar
• MongoDB — mongodb
• Monkey — monkey
• MoonScript — moonscript, moon
• N1QL — n1ql
• N4JS — n4js, n4jsd
• Nand To Tetris HDL — nand2tetris-hdl
• Naninovel Script — naniscript, nani
• NASM — nasm
• NEON — neon
• Nevod — nevod
• nginx — nginx
• Nim — nim
• Nix — nix
• NSIS — nsis
• Objective-C — objectivec, objc
• OCaml — ocaml
• Odin — odin
• OpenCL — opencl
• OpenQasm — openqasm, qasm
• Oz — oz
• PARI/GP — parigp
• Parser — parser
• Pascal — pascal, objectpascal
• Pascaligo — pascaligo
• PATROL Scripting Language — psl
• PC-Axis — pcaxis, px
• PeopleCode — peoplecode, pcode
• Perl — perl
• PHP — php
• PHPDoc — phpdoc
• PHP Extras — php-extras
• PlantUML — plant-uml, plantuml
• PL/SQL — plsql
• PowerQuery — powerquery, pq, mscript
• PowerShell — powershell
• Processing — processing
• Prolog — prolog
• PromQL — promql
• .properties — properties
• Protocol Buffers — protobuf
• Pug — pug
• Puppet — puppet
• Pure — pure
• PureBasic — purebasic, pbfasm
• PureScript — purescript, purs
• Python — python, py
• Q# — qsharp, qs
• Q (kdb+ database) — q
• QML — qml
• Qore — qore
• R — r
• Racket — racket, rkt
• Razor C# — cshtml, razor
• React JSX — jsx
• React TSX — tsx
• Reason — reason
• Regex — regex
• Rego — rego
• Ren’py — renpy, rpy
• ReScript — rescript, res
• reST (reStructuredText) — rest
• Rip — rip
• Roboconf — roboconf
• Robot Framework — robotframework, robot
• Ruby — ruby, rb
• Rust — rust
• SAS — sas
• Sass (Sass) — sass
• Sass (SCSS) — scss
• Scala — scala
• Scheme — scheme
• Shell session — shell-session, sh-session, shellsession
• Smali — smali
• Smalltalk — smalltalk
• Smarty — smarty
• SML — sml, smlnj
• Solidity (Ethereum) — solidity, sol
• Solution file — solution-file, sln
• Soy (Closure Template) — soy
• SPARQL — sparql, rq
• Splunk SPL — splunk-spl
• SQF: Status Quo Function (Arma 3) — sqf
• SQL — sql
• Squirrel — squirrel
• Stan — stan
• Stata Ado — stata
• Structured Text (IEC 61131-3) — iecst
• Stylus — stylus
• SuperCollider — supercollider, sclang
• Swift — swift
• Systemd configuration file — systemd
• T4 templating — t4-templating
• T4 Text Templates (C#) — t4-cs, t4
• T4 Text Templates (VB) — t4-vb
• TAP — tap
• Tcl — tcl
• Template Toolkit 2 — tt2
• Textile — textile
• TOML — toml
• Tremor — tremor, trickle, troy
• Turtle — turtle, trig
• Twig — twig
• TypeScript — typescript, ts
• TypoScript — typoscript, tsconfig
• UnrealScript — unrealscript, uscript, uc
• UO Razor Script — uorazor
• URI — uri, url
• V — v
• Vala — vala
• VB.Net — vbnet
• Velocity — velocity
• Verilog — verilog
• VHDL — vhdl
• vim — vim
• Visual Basic — visual-basic, vb, vba
• WarpScript — warpscript
• WebAssembly — wasm
• Web IDL — web-idl, webidl
• WGSL — wgsl
• Wiki markup — wiki
• Wolfram language — wolfram, mathematica, nb, wl
• Wren — wren
• Xeora — xeora, xeoracube
• XML doc (.net) — xml-doc
• Xojo (REALbasic) — xojo
• XQuery — xquery
• YAML — yaml, yml
• YANG — yang
• Zig — zig