Best highlight plugins for WordPress

Best-Of Comments

Down in the last 7 days:2,208#45,754

by David Miller10 years ago

Best-Of Comments allows users to tag exceptional comments and display a randomly selected list of those comments wherever they choose in their theme.

Dojox WordPress Syntax Highlighter

Up in the last 7 days:1,551#45,759

by s a16 years ago

Free syntax highlighter written in Java Script as Wordpress Plugin.

Highlite

Down in the last 7 days:8,657#45,828

by SacredWP1 year ago

A lightweight frontend text highlighter for WordPress. Highlights are saved per user and post, with a simple yellow color and delete option.

Key Shortcut Formatter

#45,932

by Jonas Grønås Drange14 years ago

Key Shortcut Formatter enhances the presentation of keyboard shortcuts with simple CSS and JavaScript

Hikari Featured Comments

Down in the last 7 days:852#46,057

hikari-featured-comments16 years ago

It adds 3 new custom fields to comments (Featured, Buried, Children buried), allowing you to add special properties to each of them.

ColorCode

Up in the last 7 days:25#46,459

by pizn14 years ago

Javascript 代码高亮插件，为您的代码提供多种配色方案，支持html，css，javascript和xml语言。

External Files

Down in the last 7 days:7,938#47,073

by adamh17 years ago

External files allows an author to insert the contents of an external file or url into a post, with the text automatically highlighted accordingly.

Goodbye Syntax Highlighter

#47,387

by dwhitevisoft13 years ago

For years I've used Alex Gorbatchev's SyntaxHighlighter. It has served me well over the years. When I moved to WordPress I tried various plu …

Sacred PDF Viewer

Down in the last 7 days:5,246#47,529

by SacredWP3 months ago

Embed PDFs in a fast, SEO-friendly inline viewer with fullscreen, per-role download control, and optional text highlighting. No external services.

Highlight Comments

#48,134

by muerbeteig18 years ago

Highlight Comments allows you to highlight comments, which are worth reading. It can highlight your own comments as well and is fully customizable.

Formatting Extender

Up in the last 7 days:15,513#50,209

by Gaurav Tiwari1 month ago

Apply CSS classes to selected text or whole blocks, with class suggestions, inline badges, highlights, and theme-palette colors.

WPBetterCodeHighlighting

#52,687

by conlabltd1 month ago

WpBetterCodeHighlighting allows you to show code snippets in over 290+ languages. Its completly free and perfect for blog/tutorial sites.

Ghostline

#60,101

by Utkarsh13 days ago

A fake cursor moves, marks, or types the text that you select, when the text scrolls into view.

FAT Editor Add On

Up in the last 7 days:2,426#63,272

by roninwp9 years ago

FAT Editor AddOn is a WordPress plugin which allows you create highlight text, text with twitter share, video embed (youtube and vimeo)

Mxwlsoft Post Row Colors

#65,871

by mxwlsoft5 months ago

Add custom background colors to post rows in the WordPress admin, with support for quick and bulk editing.

BrightApp Word Highlighter

Up in the last 7 days:4,283#66,998

by brightappstudio2 months ago

Highlight words in the Gutenberg editor with color-coded libraries, per-post control, a link library, and a frontend toggle for editors.

IECST Highlighter

#68,128

by Andrew Parman1 year ago

Display beautiful code snippets using the Phio Highlighter for the IEC 61131-3 Structured Text language

Syntax Highlighting

Down in the last 7 days:5,426#68,642

by webstartup9 years ago

HighLight Code allows you to add syntax highlighting to the snippets contained in your articles. NOTE (beta): This plugin is very felt, it is still in …

Highlight Magic

#70,019

by Prashant Thakur2 years ago

Highlight Magic is a WordPress plugin that allows logged-in users to highlight text on your website.

Minimal Search Term Highlight

Down in the last 7 days:14,983#71,233

by mjke878 years ago

Ultra-minimalist plugin to highlight search results.

Admin Order Notes & Status Highlighter

Down in the last 7 days:3,106#71,997

by Amit Dholiya11 months ago

Highlight WooCommerce order notes and status badges with color-coded styling for clearer order management and better admin visibility.

HyperCoder CodeBlock

Down in the last 7 days:16,451#72,879

by hypercoder7 years ago

CodeBlock is a free WordPress plugin that enables visitors to copy code blocks with a single click.

DecoBlocks

Down in the last 7 days:8,749#73,139

by LUX Digest13 days ago

Speech bubble, quote box, highlight, table of contents and sticker blocks for the Block Editor and Classic Editor. No CSS needed.