Best yaml plugins for WordPress
The most popular yaml plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. SyntaxHighlighter Evolved leads with 50+ active installs, ahead of AISignal Markdown Converter (10+) and Theme YAML (10+). All 4 plugins tagged “yaml” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 4 yaml plugins
- 1.SyntaxHighlighter Evolved
The most installed yaml plugin, with 50+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 12 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.8.34.
- 2.
AISignal Markdown Converter10+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, updated 1 month ago.
- 3.Theme YAML
10+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 3 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.3.14.
- 4.
YAML Custom FieldsFewer than 10 active installs. No reviews yet, updated 1 month ago.
All 4 plugins tagged “yaml”
SyntaxHighlighter Evolved
Down in the last 7 days:108#20,114by tedivm12 years ago
Adds support for the Yaml language to the SyntaxHighlighter Evolved plugin.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 11/day

AISignal Markdown Converter
Down in the last 7 days:9,794#46,835by Rareview®1 month ago
Expose WordPress content as clean Markdown, including ACF-backed content fallbacks, through .md URLs, query parameters, and REST endpoints.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Theme YAML
#47,687by landwire3 years ago
Theme Yaml converts your theme.yaml file into theme.json so that you can configure your theme with YAML
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 4.5(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

YAML Custom Fields
Down in the last 7 days:130#71,623by starbist1 month ago
Custom fields for pages, posts and every part of the site. You set the fields once. Writers fill them in.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day