Enlighter – Customizable Syntax Highlighter Wordpress Plugin - Rating, Reviews, Demo & Download

Enlighter – Customizable Syntax Highlighter Preview Wordpress Plugin - Rating, Reviews, Demo & Download

4.4 Average out of 18 ratings

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Plugin Description

Enlighter is a free, easy-to-use, syntax highlighting tool for WordPress. Highlighting is powered by the EnlighterJS javascript library to provide a beautiful code-appearance.

Using it can be as simple as adding a new Enlighter Sourcecode block (Gutenberg) and insert the code which you want to highlight: Enlighter takes care of the rest!

An easy to use Theme-Customizer is included to modify the build-in themes without any css knowlegde!
It also supports the automatic creation of tab-panes to display code-groups together (useful for multi-language examples – e.g. html+css+js)

Plugin Features

Full Gutenberg Editor Integration
Full Classic Editor Integration (TinyMCE)
Support for all common used languages
Powerful generic highlighting engine for unknown/unsupported languages
Theme Customizer
Inline Syntax Highlighting
Advanced configuration options are available within the options page.
Supports code-groups (displays multiple code-blocks within a tab-pane)
Extensible language and theme engines – add your own one.
Simple CSS based themes
Integrated CSS file caching (suitable for high traffic sites)
Full GDPR compliant – no external resources are required, no data will be aggregated

Gutenberg Editor Integration

Full Editor Integration via “Enlighter Sourcecode” block
Inline Syntax Highlighting
Automatic transformations for classic editor posts (codeblocks converted to Enlighter Sourcecode block)
Transform legacy codeblocks to Enlighter Gutenberg Blocks (manual transformation)
Docs and Usage
Editor plugin repository

Classic Editor (TinyMCE) Integration

Full Editor Integration via Enlighter buttons in the toolbar
Inline Syntax Highlighting
Tab-Indentation mode to align code with the tab key (single line and block selection)
Editor formats to highlight existing code
Docs and Usage
Editor plugin repository
Classic Editor Live-Demo

Markdown

Markdown fenced code blocks
Inline Syntax Highlighting via backtick code (including language specific addon)
Docs and Usage

Compatibility/Migration

Crayon compatibility mode (use EnlighterJS highlighting for legacy Crayon pre codeblocks)
CodeColorer compatibility mode (use EnlighterJS highlighting for legacy CodeColorer shortcodes)
Jetpack markdown compatibility mode (generic or raw highlighting)
Gutenberg standard codeblock compatibility mode (no language attributes)

Extensions

bbPress shortcode + markdown code blocks support
Dynamic Content via jQuery Ajax.load
Dynamic Content via Jetpack.InfiniteScroll

Texteditor/Shortcodes (Legacy)

Shortcodes are deprecated and should be used in text editor mode only – never use them within Gutenberg Editor or Classic Editor!

Easy to use Text-Editor mode through the use of Shortcodes and QuickTags
Shortcodes within content, comments and widgets
Standalone Shortcode-Processor to avoid wpautop filter issues in Text-Editor Mode

Supported Languages (build-in)

In case your language is not available try the Generic Mode which covers a lot of programming languages – or request a new language on GitHub

Compatibility

All modern webbrowsers with enabled Javascript and HTML5 capabilities for “data-” attributes are compatible with Enlighter. It’s possible that it may work with earlier/other browsers.