MathJax-LaTeX

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1. ★★★★★ yecarri

   10mo ago

   My wordpress version is 6.7.2. I just added a simple equation, it is not displayed at all.

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2. ★★★★★ zulqadar

   1.2y ago

   This plugin is working fine in 2025. Just write your equation in $$equation$$. That’s all.

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3. ★★★★★ samenezes

   5.9y ago

   There is a mistake on the beginning of this product descriotion: There, we see: “enables enables”

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4. ★★★★★ Ethan2013

   8.5y ago

   I think it’s a very great plugin because we, as a physics lover, are so difficult to type latex equations in any blog. I like wordpress but its WP-latex is not good enough. I found that MathJax won’t work well when the equation is too many “A_{1}^{2}”, “\text{1233}” or something like that. For example, $$\large\sum_{i=1}^n\vec{F}_{\text{ext, i}}=\sum_{i=1}^n$$ This equation won’t show LaTeX correctly. However, if I delete =\sum_{i=1}^n, then everything is fine. $$\large\sum_{i=1}^n\vec{F}_{\text{ext, i}}$$ I really need your help. I love this plugin so much because it enables me to write a physics blog. Thank you so much. You can see this two pictures : View post on imgur.com View post on imgur.com

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5. ★★★★★ Find Hao

   8.7y ago

   Thanks for your work. By the way, could you please add the inlineMath config? Or I have to add <script type="text/x-mathjax-config"> MathJax.Hub.Config({ tex2jax: {inlineMath: [['$','$'], ['\\(','\\)']]} }); </script> in header.php to support the inlineMath. This topic was modified 8 years, 7 months ago by Find Hao.

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6. ★★★★★ liuyiwp

   9.0y ago

   I really like the fact that it only injected code when needed. It seems I cannot put two [latex] equations on one page. I ended up use one [latex] and one $$ code.

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7. ★★★★★ xpil

   9.4y ago

   I am not a heavy LaTeX user but I do write about mathematics every now and then, and I find MathJax extremely useful. I have been using it for the last 2 or 3 years – no issues whatsoever. It simply works, both on PC an on mobile. The biggest selling point to me is that it allows for selecting & copying math expressions as text (as opposite to other LaTeX plugins that convert expressions to png). This makes things scalable, performant etc. Good work!

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8. ★★★★★ cpbotha

   10.5y ago

   Up to now I’ve been using the Simple Mathjax plugin, which also works well, but is not able to inject the mathjax dependency selectively. On my sites I have math only on a very few pages, and MathJax-LaTeX enables me to enable mathjax only on those pages by just adding the [mathjax] shortcode somewhere. Importantly, remember to disable Jetpack Beautiful Math, else it can interfere with MathJax-LaTeX. (at the time of writing, Jetpack is still turning math into bitmaps, which is not nearly as beautiful as MathJax on capable browsers). See https://vxlabs.com/2014/06/16/level-sets-the-practical-10-minute-introduction/ for an example.

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Recent releases and news for this plugin

1. — Version 1.3.13 PHP code style fixes 1.3.13
2. — Version 1.3.12 Use version 2.7.9 of MathJax JS Add code comments to all variables, functions and parameters. 1.3.12
3. — Version 1.3.11 Use version 2.7.5 of MathJax JS 1.3.11
4. — Version 1.3.10 Rename class files, per PHPCS Gracefully handle null values in filter_br_tags_on_math. Thanks to Yang Liu. 1.3.10
5. — Version 1.3.9 Code style changes, per PHPCS 3.3.0 and WPCS 0.14.1 Use PHP 7 short array syntax 1.3.9
6. — Version 1.3.8 Code style changes, per PHPCS 3.1.1 and WPCS 0.14 1.3.8

1 disclosed vulnerability on record for this plugin, fixed in the current version. Sites on older versions stay exposed until they update.

1. High · 8.8 MathJax-LaTeX < 1.2 - Cross-Site Request Forgery ↗
   2013-03-25 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Affects < 1.2 Patched in 1.2

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.7.1

Growth timeline

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1. 2024-03-11 9K+ → 10K+ up

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

• S Simple Mathjax 4K+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags B
• KaTeX 2K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags B
• WP-KaTeX 700+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags D
• WPMathPub 300+ installs · 4.0★ · 2 shared tags B
• LaTeX2HTML 200+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags A
• Youngwhan's Simple Latex 200+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags D

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MathJax-LaTeX: 10K+ active installs, 4.4★ (11 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/mathjax-latex