Prismatic

Display Beautiful Code

Display beautiful code snippets with Prism.js, Highlight.js, or plain code escaping:

• Prism.js – Code escape + syntax highlight using Prism.js
• Highlight.js – Code escape + syntax highlight using Highlight.js
• Plain Flavor – Code escape without syntax highlighting

👉 The only 3-in-1 syntax highlighter!

Live Examples

Here are some live examples showing Prismatic displaying colorful code snippets:

• PHP highlighting
• CSS highlighting
• JavaScript highlighting
• HTML highlighting
• Escaped code without highlighting

Prismatic is used to display thousands of code snippets on the above sites. Also here is a post showing some favorite Highlight.js styles 🙂

Prism.js Features

• Supports 60+ coding languages
• Choose from all 8 available Prism themes
• Provides a Gutenberg block for adding code snippets
• Provides TinyMCE/Visual buttons for adding code snippets
• Option to enable Prism plugin Line Numbers
• Option to enable Prism plugin Line Highlight
• Option to enable Prism plugin Show Language
• Option to enable Prism plugin Copy Code Button
• Option to enable Prism plugin Command Line
• Highlights code in post content, excerpts, and comments
• Detects language- and lang- class prefixes
• Limit syntax highlighting to Posts and Pages
• Highlight single-line and multi-line code
• Granular control over code escaping
• Smart loading of CSS & JS assets
• Support for ACF on single post views

Highlight.js Features

• Supports 50+ coding languages
• Choose from all 90+ available Highlight themes
• Provides a Gutenberg block for adding code snippets
• Provides TinyMCE/Visual buttons for adding code snippets
• Customize the Highlight.js init JavaScript
• Highlights code in post content, excerpts, and comments
• Limit syntax highlighting to Posts and Pages
• Highlight multi-line blocks of code
• Detects language- and lang- class prefixes
• Enable support for no-prefix class names
• Granular control over code escaping
• Smart loading of CSS & JS assets

Plain Flavor Features

• Enable code escaping for post content, excerpts, and/or comments
• Enable code escaping on the frontend, Admin Area, or both
• Provides a Gutenberg block for adding code snippets
• Provides TinyMCE/Visual buttons for adding code snippets
• Escapes single-line and multi-line code snippets
• Escapes tags (based on configuration)

General Features

• Easy to set up and use
• Built with WordPress APIs
• Born of simplicity, no frills
• Squeaky clean, error-free code
• Lightweight, fast and flexible
• Focused on performance and security
• Loads CSS/JS assets only when required
• Adheres to HTML coding best practices
• Works with the Gutenberg Block Editor
• Regularly updated and “future proof”

👉 Prismatic escapes only the essentials to keep your code clean.

👉 Check out the screenshots for more details!

Privacy

This plugin does not collect or store any user data. It does not set any cookies, and it does not connect to any third-party locations. Thus, this plugin does not affect user privacy in any way.

Prismatic is developed and maintained by Jeff Starr, 15-year WordPress developer and book author.

Support development

I develop and maintain this free plugin with love for the WordPress community. To show support, you can make a donation or purchase one of my books:

• The Tao of WordPress
• Digging into WordPress
• .htaccess made easy
• WordPress Themes In Depth
• Wizard’s SQL Recipes for WordPress

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Links, tweets and likes also appreciated. Thank you! 🙂