WP Plugin: My Syntax Highlighter PRO

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“My Syntax Highlighter PRO” is a premium WordPress plugin that provides a simple way for embedding syntax-highlighted source code within pages or posts on your website, without losing it’s formatting or making any manual changes. Supporting 154 programming languages, 125 shortcodes and 56 themes. The syntax highlighting feature implemented via a CodeMirror library. This is a “PRO” version of the plugin “My Syntax Highlighter”. More features, more power.

Syntax highlighting is a feature that displays source code, in different colours and fonts according to the category of terms. Syntax highlighting is one strategy to improve the readability and context of the text; especially for code that spans several pages. The reader can easily ignore large sections of comments or code, depending on what they are looking for.

This plugin also uses standalone Shortcode-Processor to prevent WordPress from converting newlines to HTML paragraphs, replacing apostrophes with typographic quotes and so on.

This plugin is just plug and play, no tedious configurations or hacks, just install, enable and start using your new shortcodes.

Usage

On the WordPress Post/Page Editor page switch to the Text/HTML editor and wrap your source code in one of the supported shortcodes (like [code]...[/code] that is universal shortcode). Example:

                                [code]
This

is

an "example"!
[/code]

In this case, the shortcode will prevent WordPress from inserting paragraph breaks between This, is and an "example", as well as ensure that the double quotes around example are not converted to typographic (curly) quotes.

To avoid problems, only edit posts that contain your source code in Text/HTML mode.

Features

Lightweight and fast
Secure code with using clear coding standards
Intuitive interface with many settings
Cross browser compatible (work smooth in any modern browser)
Compatible with all WordPress themes
RTL compatible (right to left)
Translation ready
Free version published on WordPress.org

Key features include

Standalone Shortcode-Processor
Code syntax highlighting
Line numbering
Dollar sign before line
36 Themes
13 Languages
15 Shortcodes
Allow shortcodes in the text widget
And much, much more!

PRO features include

56 Themes (all provided themes from CodeMirror)
154 Programming languages (all provided languages from CodeMirror)
125 Shortcodes
Programming language selection option
Loading CodeMirror files on pages only when needed
No ads on the settings page
Well documented

A list of supported languages:

Click to view language examples. Highlighted with Default theme.

PHP → see example
JavaScript → see example
XML → see example
HTML → see example
CSS → see example
SCSS → see example
LESS → see example
SASS → see example
MarkDown → see example
Perl → see example
SQL → see example
MySQL → see example
Shell → see example
And many many more languages!

A list of supported shortcodes:

[code][/code] - customizable shortcode
[php][/php]
[javascript][/javascript]
[js][/js]
[xml][/xml]
[html][/html]
[css][/css]
[scss][/scss]
[less][/less]
[sass][/sass]
[markdown][/markdown]
[perl][/perl]
[sql][/sql]
[mysql][/mysql]
[shell][/shell]
And many many more shortcodes!

A list of supported themes:

3024 day
ABCDEF
3024 night
Ambiance mobile
Ambiance
Base16 dark
Base16 light
Bespin
Blackboard
Cobalt
Colorforth
Darcula
Dracula
Duotone dark
Duotone light
Eclipse
Elegant
Erlang dark
Gruvbox dark
Hopscotch
Icecoder
Idea
Isotope
Lesser dark
Liquibyte
Lucario
Material
MBO
MDN-like
Midnight
Monokai
Neat
Neo
Night
Oceanic next
Panda syntax
Paraiso dark
Paraiso light
Pastel on dark
Railscasts
Rubyblue
Seti
Shadowfox
Solarized
SSMS
The matrix
Tomorrow night bright
Tomorrow night eighties
TTCN
Twilight
Vibrant ink
XQ dark
XQ light
Yeti
Zenburn

Screenshots

WP plugin "My Syntax Highlighter PRO" by Space X-Chimp

Translation

This plugin is ready for translation and has already been translated into several languages. But If your language is not available then you can make one. It is also possible that not all existing translations are up to date, so you are welcome to make corrections. Many of plugin users would be delighted if you share your translation with the community. Thanks for your contribution!

If you want to help translate this plugin, please use the POT file that is included and placed in the languages folder to create a translation PO file. Just send the PO file to us and we will include this translation within the next plugin update.