Best crayon plugins for WordPress
The most popular crayon plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Crayon Syntax Highlighter to Pastacode leads with 30+ active installs, ahead of REST API support for Crayon Syntax Highlighter (20+) and Alkane Code (10+). All 3 plugins tagged “crayon” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 3 crayon plugins
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Crayon Syntax Highlighter to PastacodeThe most installed crayon plugin, with 30+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 10 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.6.30.
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REST API support for Crayon Syntax Highlighter20+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 7 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.9.35.
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Alkane Code10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 4 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.0.18.
All 3 plugins tagged “crayon”
Crayon Syntax Highlighter to Pastacode
Down in the last 7 days:252#24,185by Willy Bahuaud10 years ago
The only use of this plugin is to convert Crayon Syntax Highlighter's tags into Pastacode shortcodes.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 4/day
REST API support for Crayon Syntax Highlighter
Down in the last 7 days:248#27,334by miunosoft8 years ago
Adds WordPress REST API support for Crayon Syntax Highlighter.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 3.5(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Alkane Code
#33,001by alkanesolutions4 years ago
A TinyMCE code editor with Prism syntax highlighting.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 6/day