Plugin info

Total downloads: 45,955
Active installs: 3,000
Total reviews: 13
Average rating: 4.7
Support threads opened: 0
Support threads resolved: 0 (0%)
Available in: 1 language(s)
Contributors: 3
Last updated: 9/10/2025 (113 days ago)
Added to WordPress: 9/20/2011 (14 years old)
Minimum WordPress version: 3.0
Tested up to WordPress version: 6.8.3
Minimum PHP version: f

Maintenance & Compatibility

Maintenance score

Maintained • Last updated 113 days ago • 13 reviews

54/100

Is Simple Mathjax abandoned?

Likely maintained (last update 113 days ago).

Compatibility

Requires WordPress: 3.0
Tested up to: 6.8.3
Requires PHP: f

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Description

This wordpress plugin is yet another simple plugin to load the MathJax scripts at the bottom of all of your pages. It uses a very all-inclusive mathjax configuration by default, with $’s and $$’s the default delimeters for in-line and displayed equations.

A preference pane is added to the “Settings” group where you can choose whether to use MathJax version 2 or 3, change the MathJax server location (CDN) and the MathJax configuration settings. (See the mathjax documentation for details on the options available.)
You can also specify a LaTeX “preamble” of newcommands which will be loaded in a hidden element near the top of each page.

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Installation

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Frequently Asked Questions

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Review feed

Bjørn Kjos-Hanssen
10/11/2016

Version 0.6 better than 0.3

Version 0.3 didn't do HTTPS but 0.6 does. Great!
edwardw
7/6/2020

Works as expected

Works as expected on 5.4.2!

Screenshots

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Changelog

2.1.1

The custom config no longer has the HTML escaping filter applied.

2.1.0

Added support for MathJax 4.

2.0.1

Bumped the default CDN URL for MathJax 2 to use 2.7.8.

2.0

MathJax 3 support, and the default config makes MathJax ignore the new block editor.

1.1

update latest mathjax version, load mathjax in footer instead of header

1.0

send default url to new cdn

0.5

minor code cleanup, allow mathjax in admin screens

0.4

use safe mode (prevents evil scripts) by default

0.3

use wp_enqueue_script to allow others to use mathjax as a dependency (christianp). removed disqus compatibility due to reports of it no longer working.

0.2

added disqus compatibility. enclosed the preamble in a hidden span to
cover a small space created by mathjax v.2

0.1

improved loading of the LaTeX preamble so that it appears just
below the body tag, rather than in the header

0.0

initial release