CodeColorer lets you insert syntax-highlighted code snippets into posts, comments, and feeds.

CodeColorer currently bundles GeSHi 1.0.9.0 from the upstream 1.0.x line, with a small set of project-local maintenance patches for current PHP and WordPress compatibility.

Plugin based on GeSHi library, which supports most languages. CodeColorer has various nice features:

syntax highlighting in RSS feeds
syntax highlighting of a single line of code (inline)
syntax highlighting of code in comments
line numbers
automatic links to the documentation inserting
code block intelligent scroll detection (short code would have a short block, for a long one the block height would be fixed and a scrollbar would appear)
predefined color themes (Slush & Poppies, Blackboard, Dawn, Mac Classic, Twitlight, Vibrant Ink, Railscasts, Solarized Light, Solarized Dark)
syntax colors customization in CSS file
code protect from mangling by WordPress (for example, quotes, double-dashes, and others would look just right as you entered)

Support

If you have any suggestions, found a bug, wanted to contribute a translation to your language, or just wanted to say “thank you”, feel free to email me [email protected]. I will try my best to answer you.

If you want to contribute your code, see the Development section under the Other Notes tab.

Supported languages

Here is the list of languages supported by CodeColorer: 4cs, 6502acme, 6502kickass, 6502tasm, 68000devpac, abap, actionscript, actionscript3, ada, aimms, algol68, apache, applescript, apt_sources, arm, asm, asp, asymptote, autoconf, autohotkey, autoit, avisynth, awk, bascomavr, bash, basic4gl, batch, bf, biblatex, bibtex, blitzbasic, bnf, boo, c, c_loadrunner, c_mac, c_winapi, caddcl, cadlisp, ceylon, cfdg, cfm, chaiscript, chapel, cil, clojure, cmake, cobol, coffeescript, cpp-qt, cpp-winapi, cpp, csharp, css, cuesheet, d, dart, dcl, dcpu16, dcs, delphi, diff, div, dos, dot, e, ecmascript, eiffel, email, epc, erlang, euphoria, ezt, f1, falcon, fo, fortran, freebasic, freeswitch, fsharp, gambas, gdb, genero, genie, gettext, glsl, gml, gnuplot, go, groovy, gwbasic, haskell, haxe, hicest, hq9plus, html4strict, icon, idl, ini, inno, intercal, io, ispfpanel, j, java, java5, javascript, jcl, jquery, julia, kixtart, klonec, klonecpp, kotlin, latex, lb, ldif, lisp, llvm, locobasic, logtalk, lolcode, lotusformulas, lotusscript, lscript, lsl2, lua, m68k, magiksf, make, mapbasic, mathematica, matlab, mercury, metapost, mirc, mk-61, mmix, modula2, modula3, mpasm, mxml, mysql, nagios, netrexx, newlisp, nginx, nimrod, nsis, oberon2, objc, objeck, ocaml-brief, ocaml, octave, oobas, oorexx, oracle11, oracle8, oxygene, oz, parasail, parigp, pascal, pcre, per, perl, perl6, pf, phix, php-brief, php, pic16, pike, pixelbender, pli, plsql, postgresql, postscript, povray, powerbuilder, powershell, proftpd, progress, prolog, properties, providex, purebasic, pycon, pys60, python, q, qbasic, qml, racket, rails, rbs, rebol, reg, rexx, robots, rpmspec, rsplus, ruby, rust, sas, sass, scala, scheme, scilab, scl, sdlbasic, smalltalk, smarty, spark, sparql, sql, standardml, stonescript, swift, systemverilog, tcl, tclegg, teraterm, texgraph, text, thinbasic, tsql, twig, typoscript, unicon, upc, urbi, uscript, vala, vb, vbnet, vbscript, vedit, verilog, vhdl, vim, visualfoxpro, visualprolog, whitespace, whois, winbatch, xbasic, xml, xojo, xorg_conf, xpp, xyscript, yaml, z80, zxbasic.

Development

Sources of this plugin are available both in SVN and Git:

The GitHub repository includes local contributor tooling based on mise, Composer, pnpm, and wp-env. A typical setup is:

mise install
mise run bootstrap
mise run test
mise run wp-start

Feel free to check them out, make your changes and send me patches or pull requests. Promise, I will apply every patch (of course, if they add a value to the product). Email for patches, suggestions, or bug reports: [email protected].

If you’re interested in translating CodeColorer to your language, please check out the translation page for the plugin.

Customization

Syntax coloring is highly customizable: you could change the color scheme for all languages or a specific language. You could find CodeColorer CSS in wp-content/plugins/codecolorer/codecolorer.css file. To change colors for all languages edit lines below Color scheme section.

There is a simple mapping between TextMate color themes and CodeColorer ones:

/* "Slush & Poppies" color scheme (default) */
.codecolorer-container, .codecolorer { color: #000000; background-color: #F1F1F1; }
/* Comment */
.codecolorer .co0, .codecolorer .co1, .codecolorer .co2, .codecolorer .co3, .codecolorer .co4, .codecolorer .coMULTI { color: #406040; font-style: italic; }
/* Constant */
.codecolorer .nu0, .codecolorer .re3 { color: #0080A0; }
/* String */
.codecolorer .st0, .codecolorer .st_h, .codecolorer .es0, .codecolorer .es1 { color: #C03030; }
/* Entity */
.codecolorer .me1, .codecolorer .me2 { color: #0080FF; }
/* Keyword */
.codecolorer .kw1, .codecolorer .kw2, .codecolorer .sy1 { color: #2060A0; }
/* Storage */
.codecolorer .kw3, .codecolorer .kw4, .codecolorer .kw5, .codecolorer .re2 { color: #008080; }
/* Variable */
.codecolorer .re0, .codecolorer .re1 { color: #A08000; }
/* Global color */
.codecolorer .br0, .codecolorer .sy0 { color: #000000; }

Check the codecolorer.css file to get more examples.