The purpose of this plugin is simple. I want to list recents update of my posts. Similiar to default “Recent Posts Widget” by WordPress, but this one sort the post by last modified time and enable to add a short note about change or update being made.
For example, I maintaince a wordpress plugin (we name it, “Hollydolly Plugin”) and create a post about it on my blog. And because the nature of blog—when new posts are added the older ones are taken down automatically—it’s only a matter of time that post ‘disappeared’ from frontpage and no longer seen by visitor. So, when I release a new version of “Hollydolly Plugin” and updated the old post about it, unfortunately, there is no way I can do to ‘attract’ visitor to read (again) that post.
Right, in the new version of WordPress (since version 2.7) there is an option to make it as sticky post—make it listed on the top of frontpage. But that not my choice. I want to list it on my sidebar and displayed all over my blog. So I create this plugin for that purpose.

Plugin Name: Highlight Post Widget

A widget for displaying highlighted post on your sidebar and displayed your recent update post.

Kaspars

Uses a customized version of the <a href="https://github.com/kasparsd/code-prettify-lib/pull/1" rel="nofollow ugc">Code Prettify library</a> to support local styles and scripts. Plugin applies code highlighting automatically to all <code><pre></code> tags on the page.
Compatible with Gutenberg and doesn’t lock you in with specific markup requirements.
<h4>Development</h4>
Plugin development <a href="https://github.com/kasparsd/code-prettify" rel="nofollow ugc">on GitHub</a>.
<h4>Credits</h4>
Created and maintained by <a href="https://kaspars.net" rel="nofollow ugc">Kaspars Dambis</a>. All of my open source work is available <a href="https://github.com/kasparsd" rel="nofollow ugc">on GitHub</a>.
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Cover photo by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/110751683@N02/13334080323/" rel="nofollow ugc">Yuri Samoilov</a>

Code Prettify

I tried to use this plugin in WP 5.0.2 and it works. I got an issue with Litespeed cache configuration and seems we should exclude this plugin javascript from an optimization process. Then you will be fine!

It works as expected!

Perfect. Automatic.

Finally a plugin that works with the outdated "Crayon Syntax Highlighter" plugin

So I don't have to mess around with every post.

Good replacement

Your plugin makes me very secure and happy to use because it doesn't make me dependent, I can disable it without affecting the articles. Good job.

I just hope you can keep the plugin up to date to be compatible with new versions of WordPress.

Thank you!

Please keep update to compatible with WordPress version

100% automatic code highlighting using the Prettify library. No shortcodes, no classnames, fully automatic and pure awesome.

Plugin Name: Highlight Post Widget vs Code Prettify