Agus Prawoto Hadi

Prism is one of the most popular syntax highlighters that widely used by a lot of blog or websites, some of them are popular websites, such as Mozilla, drupal, and SitePoint.
One reason why a lot of websites prefer to use this highlighter is because it’s ability to do custom builds of the language highlighter and plugins you want to be used
This plugin helps you to do all of those tasks and bring this code highlighter to your WordPress easily, provided with many features and user-friendly GUI, make it handy and easy to use.
** Features. **
<ul>
<li>Simple and easy to use</li>
<li>Support both Classic and Guttenberg block editor</li>
<li>All possible syntax languages provided by Prism</li>
<li>Full GUI, don’t need to hardcode parameters</li>
<li>Easy to make a custom build. Choose your own language, theme, and some plugins easily</li>
<li>Custom container max-height. Useful when displaying long code.</li>
<li>Easy to add custom CSS. Useful for responsive design.</li>
<li>Easy to edit code that has been written in tinyMCE text editor (screenshot 4)</li>
<li>Write and Edit code in place. The textarea of code editor, support tab, and back tab, so you can directly edit or write your code, rather than switch back to your code editor.</li>
<li>Load script on demand, load javascript and CSS file of prism highlighter only when needed</li>
<li>Ability to override global options and use individual options for each code block</li>
<li>Support TinyMCE Visual mode and Text Mode (Quick Tags), it also supports the Quick tags used in the admin comment page (screenshot 5)</li>
<li>Use similar pattern with <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/aph-syntax-highlighter/" title="APH Syntax Highlighter" rel="ugc">APH Syntax Highlighter</a> and <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/crayon-syntax-highlighter/" title="Crayon Syntax Highlighter" rel="ugc">Crayon Syntax Highlighter</a> plugins, so your code will still work using those plugins</li>
<li>Language added: Light plain and dark plain</li>
</ul>
<h3>How To Use</h3>
After installing the plugin, go to the admin setting Settings > Prism Highlighter to configure the global setting including the highlighter languages you want to load, theme, etc.
In the TinyMCE menu (add or edit post or page), there is a new button that can be used to pop up the code editor, simply copy-paste your code and fill in some options
This new button also can be found at the quick tags of comment editor in the Admin Edit Comments page. This quick tag appears when you edit or reply a comment.

APH Prism Syntax Highlighter

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Bringing Prism into WordPress easily. User-friendly GUI, support both classic editor and block editor. Support tab & back-tab in the code editor.

Raunak Gupta

Vaaky Highlighter is a lightweight syntax highlighter plugin for the WordPress Gutenberg editor. Add beautiful code blocks with line numbers, a copy-to-clipboard button, optional filename label, automatic language detection, and 35+ themes. Powered by Highlight.js — a fast, dependency-free alternative to Prism.
Syntax highlighting is powered by Highlight.js, a fast and dependency-free JavaScript library that supports multiple programming languages and themes.
Vaaky Highlighter is ideal for developers, bloggers, technical writers, and documentation sites who want elegant syntax-highlighted code without unnecessary bloat.
Using it is simple: add the Vaaky Highlighter Sourcecode block in Gutenberg, paste your code, and publish — the plugin handles everything automatically.
View the live demo of all supported themes: 
<a href="https://www.webhat.in/?page_id=626&utm_source=wordpress.org&utm_medium=readme.txt&utm_campaign=link&utm_id=vaaky_highlighter&utm_term=Theme+Demo" rel="nofollow ugc">Demo Page</a>
<h3>What’s new in 1.2.0</h3>
<ul>
<li>Line numbers for code blocks</li>
<li>Floating copy-to-clipboard button on every block</li>
<li>Optional filename label (renders as a tab above the code)</li>
<li>Word-wrap toggle per block + global default</li>
<li>Visual theme picker (no more guessing from a dropdown)</li>
<li>Modernized build using @wordpress/scripts</li>
<li>Drops PHP 5.6 / WordPress 6.0 support — now requires PHP 7.4 / WordPress 6.5</li>
</ul>
<h3>Usage</h3>
<ol>
<li>Add the Vaaky Highlighter block in the Gutenberg editor</li>
<li>Paste or write your code</li>
<li>Select a language (optional)</li>
<li>Save and view your page on the frontend</li>
</ol>
<h3>Supported Languages</h3>
<ul>
<li>Apache</li>
<li>Bash</li>
<li>C</li>
<li>C#</li>
<li>C++</li>
<li>CSS</li>
<li>DNS Zone file</li>
<li>DOS</li>
<li>Django</li>
<li>Dockerfile</li>
<li>Go</li>
<li>HTML / XML</li>
<li>Handlebars</li>
<li>JSON</li>
<li>Java</li>
<li>JavaScript</li>
<li>Markdown</li>
<li>Nginx</li>
<li>Objective-C</li>
<li>PHP</li>
<li>Plaintext</li>
<li>PostgreSQL & PL/pgSQL</li>
<li>PowerShell</li>
<li>Python</li>
<li>R</li>
<li>Ruby</li>
<li>Rust</li>
<li>SCSS</li>
<li>SQL / MySQL</li>
<li>Shell</li>
<li>Twig</li>
<li>TypeScript</li>
<li>YAML / YML</li>
</ul>

Vaaky Highlighter — Syntax Highlighter, Code Blocks, Line Numbers for Gutenberg

Lightweight syntax highlighter with code blocks, line numbers, copy-to-clipboard, and 35+ themes. A fast, free alternative to Prism for WordPress.

APH Prism Syntax Highlighter vs Vaaky Highlighter — Syntax Highlighter, Code Blocks, Line Numbers for Gutenberg