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Anatoliy Dovgun

<p><strong>4WP Advanced Code</strong> enhances <strong>core/code</strong> blocks and provides a dedicated <strong>Advanced Code</strong> block with syntax highlighting, copy and share controls, optional notes, and SoftwareSourceCode JSON-LD for technical content.</p>
<p>A plugin by <a href="https://4wp.dev/" rel="nofollow ugc">4wp.dev</a>. <strong>4WP</strong> is our project brand; the letters “WP” appear only as part of that brand name, not as a reference to WordPress. This plugin is not affiliated with, endorsed, or sponsored by WordPress.</p>
<p>Source code: <a href="https://github.com/4wpdev/4wp-advanced-code" rel="nofollow ugc">github.com/4wpdev/4wp-advanced-code</a></p>
<h4>Key features</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Syntax highlighting</strong> — bundled Highlight.js (no CDN on the frontend)</li>
<li><strong>core/code wrapper</strong> — upgrade existing Code blocks without re-entering content</li>
<li><strong>Advanced Code block</strong> — per-block language, theme, copy/share, and SEO fields</li>
<li><strong>JSON-LD</strong> — optional SoftwareSourceCode structured data</li>
<li><strong>Settings</strong> — global defaults under Settings <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> 4WP Advanced Code</li>
</ul>
<h4>Privacy</h4>
<p>Copy and share actions run in the visitor browser. When share opens Twitter or LinkedIn, the visitor leaves your site to those third-party services. No personal data is sent to 4wp.dev.</p>
<h3>Blocks</h3>
<p>This plugin provides 1 block.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Advanced Code</strong> — syntax-highlighted code with copy, share, and SEO controls.</li>
</ul>


4WP Advanced Code

Enhanced Code block for Gutenberg with syntax highlighting, copy and share controls, and optional SoftwareSourceCode JSON-LD.

apfelbox

<p>Integrates the <a href="https://github.com/LeaVerou/prism" rel="nofollow ugc">Prism Syntax Highlighting Library</a> in WordPress.</p>
<p>It is called <em>detached</em>, since the code examples are not stuffed into the rich text editor, together with all the<br />
other texts and content, but they are added separately as custom fields and just referenced via short tags (like footnotes).</p>
<p>Check <em>Other Notes</em> for usage documentation.</p>
<p>The official development repository is <a href="https://github.com/apfelbox/Prism-Detached" rel="nofollow ugc">hosted on Github</a>.</p>
<h3>Usage</h3>
<p>The basic procedure is:</p>
<ol>
<li>Create a custom field and paste the code into it.</li>
<li>Insert the <code>[prism ...]</code> shorttag in your code, where you want the code block to appear.</li>
</ol>
<h4>Shorttag</h4>
<pre><code>[prism key=".." language=".." line=".." line_offset=".." post=".."]
</code></pre>
<ul>
<li><code>key</code>: the name of the custom field, which contains the code (<strong>required</strong>)</li>
<li><code>language</code>: the language to highlight</li>
<li><code>line</code>: highlighted lines (for syntax, check the <a href="http://prismjs.com/plugins/line-highlight/" rel="nofollow ugc">offical docs</a>)</li>
<li><code>line_offset</code>: the offset, with which the line numbering should start</li>
<li><code>post</code>:  if you want to include a code piece of another post, you can explicitly specify the post id here</li>
</ul>
<h4>Cached Assets loader</h4>
<p>The plugin includes (from v1.3 on) a cached assets loader, so that all needed assets are concatenated into<br />
one js and one css file to minimize the HTTP requests.<br />
To make use of the cached assets loader, just create a directory <code>/cache/</code> inside your plugin directory and make it writable for PHP.</p>
<h4>Supported languages</h4>
<p>Only the ones from the official PrismJS repository</p>
<ul>
<li>bash (Bash Unix Shell)</li>
<li>c</li>
<li>clike</li>
<li>coffeescript</li>
<li>cpp (C++)</li>
<li>css</li>
<li>groovy</li>
<li>java</li>
<li>javascript</li>
<li>markup (like: xHTML, MathML, SVG, LaTeX, RSS, XML, OWL, etc.)</li>
<li>php</li>
<li>python</li>
<li>scss (Sassy CSS)</li>
<li>sql</li>
</ul>
<h4>Creating Custom Extensions</h4>
<p>Please read the wiki page: <a href="https://github.com/apfelbox/Prism-Detached/wiki/Creating-A-Custom-Extension" rel="nofollow ugc">Creating A Custom Extension</a>.</p>


Prism Syntax Highlighter (detached)

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