Fred Wu

SyntaxHighlighter Plus is a WordPress plugin for code syntax highlighting. It is an enhanced version of the original SyntaxHighlighter by Matt, Viper007Bond and mdawaffe. Please give them a big applause for making such a great plugin!
SyntaxHighlighter allows you to easily post syntax highlighted code all without loosing it’s formatting or making an manual changes.
It supports the following languages (the alias for use in the post is listed next to the name):
<ul>
<li>Bash — <code>bash</code>, <code>sh</code></li>
<li>C++ — <code>cpp</code>, <code>c</code>, <code>c++</code></li>
<li>C# — <code>c#</code>, <code>c-sharp</code>, <code>csharp</code></li>
<li>CSS — <code>css</code></li>
<li>Delphi — <code>delphi</code>, <code>pascal</code></li>
<li>Diff — <code>diff</code></li>
<li>Groovy — <code>groovy</code></li>
<li>Java — <code>java</code></li>
<li>JavaScript — <code>js</code>, <code>jscript</code>, <code>javascript</code></li>
<li>Perl — <code>perl</code>, <code>pl</code></li>
<li>PHP — <code>php</code></li>
<li>Plain text — <code>plain</code>, <code>text</code></li>
<li>Python — <code>py</code>, <code>python</code></li>
<li>Ruby — <code>rb</code>, <code>ruby</code>, <code>rails</code>, <code>ror</code></li>
<li>Scala — <code>scala</code></li>
<li>SQL — <code>sql</code></li>
<li>VB — <code>vb</code>, <code>vb.net</code></li>
<li>XML/HTML — <code>xml</code>, <code>html</code>, <code>xhtml</code>, <code>xslt</code></li>
</ul>
This plugin uses the <a href="http://code.google.com/p/syntaxhighlighter/" rel="nofollow ugc">SyntaxHighlighter JavaScript package by Alex Gorbatchev</a>.
<h3>Other BBCode Methods</h3>
Find <code>[sourcecode language='css']code here[/sourcecode]</code> too long to type? Here’s some alternative examples:
<ul>
<li><code>[source language='css']code here[/source]</code></li>
<li><code>[code language='css']code here[/code]</code></li>
<li><code>[sourcecode lang='css']code here[/sourcecode]</code></li>
<li><code>[source lang='css']code here[/source]</code></li>
<li><code>[code lang='css']code here[/code]</code></li>
<li><code>[sourcecode='css']code here[/sourcecode]</code></li>
<li><code>[source='css']code here[/source]</code></li>
<li><code>[code='css']code here[/code]</code></li>
<li><code>[lang='css']code here[/lang]</code></li>
<li><code>[css]code here[/css]</code> (or any of the supported language)</li>
</ul>
Note: Quotation marks around the language can be omitted for even shorter and neater syntax. 🙂

SyntaxHighlighter Plus

Easily post source code such as PHP or HTML and display it in a styled box.

Julio Potier

Willy Bahuaud

With Pastacode, you can easily add code into your posts with the awesome PrismJs coloration library. 
You can insert source code into the post editor, wrinting it directly in the editor (using a gutenberg bloc or classic editor), from a file, or from webservices like GitHub, Gitlab, Gist, Pastebin, BitBucket or BitBucket snippets. Webservices responses are cached in order to avoid too many HTTP requests. 
It also work in comments and bbPress topics and replies.
Don’t worry about posts updates while upgrading codes!
Pastacode allows to enhance your snippets using PrismJs plugins (highlightning lines, link functions…).
<h3>Third Party</h3>
Pastacode use some third party components
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/PrismJS/prism/graphs/contributors" rel="nofollow ugc">PrismJS – by Lea Verou, Golmote, James DiGioia, Michael Schmidt & other contributors</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/@wordpress/create-block" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress create-block</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/codemirror/CodeMirror" rel="nofollow ugc">CodeMirror 6</a></li>
<li><a href="https://uiwjs.github.io/react-codemirror/" rel="nofollow ugc">CodeMirror6 Component for React</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/mathiasbynens/he" rel="nofollow ugc">He.js – by Mathias Bynens</a></li>
</ul>

Pastacode

I've been waiting for years for such a plugin! Pastacode is easy to use, well coded and looks gorgeous with any WordPress theme. Keep going!



Best plugin to embed code

Just started using this plugin, but I'm quickly becoming a big fan. Not only does this allow you to embed & highlight the normal stuff, but it will also fetch and embed directly from a github/bitbucket repo. Awesome work!

Great code embed & syntax highlighting plugin

Use Pastacode to add code into your posts with the awesome PrismJs coloration library. So, past'a code!

SyntaxHighlighter Plus vs Pastacode