Best brush plugins for WordPress
The most popular brush plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. SyntaxHighlighter Evolved leads with 60+ active installs, ahead of asm-brush (10+). All 2 plugins tagged “brush” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 2 brush plugins
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SyntaxHighlighter EvolvedThe most installed brush plugin, with 60+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 12 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.9.40.
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asm-brush10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 15 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.0.5.
All 2 plugins tagged “brush”
SyntaxHighlighter Evolved
Down in the last 7 days:401#20,028by randexdev12 years ago
Adds support for the Swift Programming Language to the SyntaxHighlighter Evolved plugin.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
asm-brush
Down in the last 7 days:675#32,212by chlankboot16 years ago
This is an assembly language brush for the "SyntaxHighlighter Evolved" plugin. It will enable customizable highlighting of assembly code.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day