Best hightlight plugins for WordPress
The most popular hightlight plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Scroll Highlight leads with 10+ active installs, ahead of Code Syntax Highlighter (fewer than 10). All 2 plugins tagged “hightlight” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 2 hightlight plugins
- 1.
Scroll HighlightThe most installed hightlight plugin, with 10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 4 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.0.18.
- 2.
Code Syntax HighlighterFewer than 10 active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.9.35.
All 2 plugins tagged “hightlight”
Scroll Highlight
Down in the last 7 days:7,860#44,530by Denis4 years ago
ScrollHighlight plugin will make a block of your choose to be highlighted (while background will be blacked out) on scroll.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Code Syntax Highlighter
Down in the last 7 days:12,475#68,681by kartikaykanojia8 years ago
A simple dynamic loading syntax highlighter.Supports 172 languages, 172 shortcodes and 55 themes.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day