Andrew Taylor

<a href="https://codepen.io" rel="nofollow ugc">CodePen</a> is an online code editor for front-end development. You build things (we call them Pens) with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and the languages and libraries that go along with those. Any Pen can be embedded on another site, making them useful for blog posts, documentation, forums, etc.
This block makes it easy to embed them. While oEmbed (just paste in a Pen URL!) also works for CodePen embeds in the block editor, this plugin allows for much more control, like setting the the height, theme, and default tabs.

CodePen Embed Block

I write web development tutorials in my blog and have tried many syntax highlighter options for code snippets in the past.

I recently decided to give Codepen a try and this plugin is surely the best way to embed and configure those!

Great tutorial tool

Pippin Williamson

Andrew Norcross

Add CodePen to the available oEmbed providers
If you’re blogging in Markdown via the WP-Markdown plugin, oEmbed doesn’t work, but Jetpack now enabled Markdown blogging and it does work through that.
oEmbed only works through post/page content in WordPress, but you can bring it to comments as well:
You can read more about it <a href="http://blog.codepen.io/2014/04/03/oembed/" title="CodePen announces oEmbed support" rel="nofollow ugc">here</a> for additional information

CodePen oEmbed

Add CodePen to the available oEmbed providers

CodePen Embed Block vs CodePen oEmbed