KaTeX

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Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 98% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

Crossed into this band 16 months ago; the previous band took 3.4 years to cross, which places it about 62% of the way through.

1. ★★★★★ gkoper

   1.3y ago

   Thanks to Tom for reopening this plugin for updates. It must have been a chore to satisfy the “administrators” but the result is great. I have been using KaTeX all the time. WordPress complained about lack of updates where there was no real reason other than administrative. I am sure also in the future, updating only means adapting to new rules. Ger

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2. ★★★★★ Difa

   2.6y ago

   Is it possible to render KaTeX for inline mode in a paragraph (Gutenberg preview)? Please consider this in next update. This topic was modified 2 years, 4 months ago by Difa. This topic was modified 2 years, 3 months ago by Difa.

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3. ★★★★★ مرتضی رستگار

   3.2y ago

   This plugin have no options at all! and sets its direction by global direction that means RTL equations in RTL websites!

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4. ★★★★★ macadk

   4.1y ago

   This is a great plugin for everyone who wants to use the power of LaTeX or KaTeX to display properly typeset math on their site. My favourite aspect of this plugin is how the Ka block displays a preview of the formatted text. While you can insert KaTeX statements using the shortcode block, if you do that, then the equations will be left justified, and there is little to do about it. Using the KaTeX block, the calculations will be properly centred between the margins set by your theme. Great job by the developer! I hope that the plugin will continue to be maintained so that we don’t lose compatibility with the latest versions of WordPress, as there are very few options otherwise.

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5. ★★★★★ mrezatavakol

   4.6y ago

   Fortunately, this is compatible with Elementor!

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6. ★★★★★ allabakash

   5.1y ago

   Veny nice plugin. Able to use very easily and without any issues. A cakewalk if you know latex syntax. Rendering is very fast too. There is lot of accounting related math content on my site (eduxir.com) which requires to use math equations. Was able to achieve very easily. One request to the author is that the font and related files are downloaded even on the pages that do not use katex. We need to modify the plugin to disable this option. If a configuration option that could be provided which would retain the configuration even after updating the file, would be of great help. This topic was modified 4 years, 9 months ago by allabakash.

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7. ★★★★★ barracuda1970

   5.1y ago

   Amazing support.

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8. ★★★★★ Bage

   5.2y ago

   I am writing a lot of equations these days and I am in love with this plugin.

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Recent releases and news for this plugin

1. — Version 2.2.5 As per WordPress’s guidelines, remove the ability to fetch KaTeX resources through jsDelivr’s CDN. Various internal improvements based on WordPress’s Plugin Check . 2.2.5
2. — Version 2.2.4 Upgrade KaTeX resources to v0.16.22. 2.2.4
3. — Version 2.2.3 More robustly render shortcodes (even more robustly than 2.2.2). 2.2.3
4. — Version 2.2.2 More robustly render shortcodes. Fix undefined variable notice. 2.2.2
5. — Version 2.2.1 Trigger rendering of KaTeX in more cases when the DOM is mutated (in 2.2.0, accidentally only a limited set of cases was checked). 2.2.1
6. — Version 2.2.0 Trigger rendering of KaTeX when the DOM is mutated by inserting a .katex-eq node. This allows rendering KaTeX markup that is not present when the page is loaded. Upgrade KaTeX resources to v0.13.13. 2.2.0

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Translated into 7 languages, 1 at 90% or more

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Growth timeline

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

1. 2025-07-22 3K+ → 2K+ down after 1226 days in tier
2. 2022-03-14 2K+ → 3K+ up after 374 days in tier
3. 2021-03-05 1K+ → 2K+ up after 175 days in tier
4. 2020-09-11 200+ → 1K+ up after 296 days in tier
5. 2019-11-20 100+ → 200+ up after 170 days in tier
6. 2019-06-03 50+ → 100+ up after 62 days in tier
7. 2019-04-02 30+ → 50+ up

Competes with

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KaTeX: 2K+ active installs, 5.0★ (16 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-10-31. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/katex