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Code Prettify

by volca · Uncategorized

100% automatic code highlighting using the Prettify library. No shortcodes, no classnames, fully automatic and pure awesome.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned
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51 Health · D
Maintenance 4/100
Rating quality 90/100
Support 70/100

51 health vs 56 average across 16,376 Uncategorized plugins

Removal-risk signals

53/100

Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.

  • Long abandoned. No update in 3+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 6.0.14.

Directory ranking optimization

How it's scored →

How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.

54 / 100

Room to improve

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 9/100
WP compatibility 41/100
Rating quality 77/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 1416 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,424 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+56% vs prior 30d
11Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

189

now · peak 349

18530d downloads · Aug 26

Directory rank vs rivals

wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you

Code Prettify · #6066 you Urvanov Syntax Highl · #4089 Syntax Highlighter C · #17421 Simple Fast Highligh · #35892

Update activity

How busy the existing users are, measured as downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites. A spike means a new release everyone's pulling; a long, slow decline means an aging user base that updates less.

185per 1k installs · Aug 26

Release cadence

No release in a year
from wp.org release tags

How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

0

releases in the last 12 months

10.3y ago

latest release · v1.3.4

5

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.3.4 · 10.3y ago0.4 · 15.6y ago0.3 · 15.6y ago0.2 · 15.7y ago0.1 · 15.7y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 95% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v1.5 95%
Older / other versions 5.4%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “1K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
1K–2K ≈1.9K

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

Install history · since 2015-09-06 · 1,427 observations

1KInstalls · Aug 26

Estimated value

What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.

Est. annual revenue

N/A

Est. acquisition value

N/A

No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price. A small install base leaves thin data to model from.

Details

Version
1.5.1
Last updated
3.9y ago
Added
2010-12-03 · 15 yrs old
Requires WP
3.0
Tested up to
6.0.14
Requires PHP

Recent reviews

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  1. fbmed
    1.4y ago

    Funcionou perfeito, era o que eu precisa, muito facil e prático.Para ficar mais completo, criei uma função que cria um botão copiar.OBrigado

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  2. Anonymous User
    2.9y ago

    I hope the developer continues to update it to avoid compatibility issues with future versions of WordPress.

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  3. hanopcan
    4.4y ago

    Used with a block-based theme and it worked perfectly. Love that there is no configuration required and it auto-detects <code> and <pre> tags. Great plugin, thank you! This topic was modified 4 years, 3 months ago by hanopcan.

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  4. mezubeen
    6.3y ago

    This plugin is exactly what I was looking for, just one friendly suggestion please add a toggle to switch themes to dark. or add a setting where we can do that. thank a lot for this neat and clean plugin

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  5. rahmanfadhil
    6.5y ago

    Very simple yet powerful!

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  6. Juergen Schulze
    6.8y ago

    Finally a plugin that works with the outdated “Crayon Syntax Highlighter” plugin So I don’t have to mess around with every post.

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  7. rich_
    7.2y ago

    This plugin works great. Thank you!

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  8. Khoi Pro
    7.7y ago

    I tried to use this plugin in WP 5.0.2 and it works. I got an issue with Litespeed cache configuration and seems we should exclude this plugin javascript from an optimization process. Then you will be fine!

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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.4.8 · WP 5.8.1

Low memory footprint
Low page-speed impact
Runs on latest PHP + WP
No PHP errors
No JS errors
Activates cleanly
No resource errors
No external HTTP errors
Optimized database use
Frequently updated

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

  1. 2025-02-02 2K+ → 1K+ down

Competes with

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Code Prettify: 1K+ active installs, 5.0★ (18 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-28. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/code-prettify