Crayon Syntax Highlighter is a popular WordPress plugin for displaying programming code on your website. With over 40,000 active installations at the time of this post, it is still the most widely used syntax highlighter even though its last Github commit was in early 2018.
The set up process for Crayon Syntax Highlighter is easy and there isn’t much to tinker with to get it working. In fact, choosing a theme from its list of 57 choices is probably more time consuming than anything else.
Sampling each theme can be tedious but here is a compilation of all the themes that you can quickly preview rather than going through each one individually.
CRAYON SYNTAX HIGHLIGHTER THEMES
- • Inserting code and highlighting is done by clicking on the
<> button from the toolbar which should open up a box to paste your code.
- • To insert syntax within a sentence, just check the Inline box.
- • You can adjust the font size, font type, and clicking on Theme should open up a drop down menu of all the available themes to choose from – here is a preview of all 57.
1 – 1C KOD
2 – 1C ZAPROS
3 – 809FINEST
4 – ADO
5 – AMITY
6 – ARDUINO IDE
7 – BNCPLUSPLUS
8 – CAPACITACIONTI
9 – CG COOKIE
10 – CISCO ROUTER
11 – CLASSIC
12 – CODA SPECIAL BOARD
13 – COY
14 – DARK TERMINAL
15 – ECLIPSE
16 – EPICGEEKS
17 – FAMILIAR
18 – FEELDESIGN
19 – FLATUI LIGHT
20 – GITHUB
21 – INLELLIJ IDEA
22 – IRIS VFX
23 – KADERU
24 – KAYOTE
25 – LIGHT ABITE
26 – MIRC DARK
27 – MM DARK BLUE
28 – MONOKAI
29 – NEON
30 – OBSIDIAN
31 – OBSIDIAN LIGHT
32 – ONDERKA15
33 – ORANGE CODE
34 – PLAIN WHITE
35 – POWERSHELL
36 – POWERSHELL ISE
37 – PRISM LIKE
38 – PSPAD
39 – QTCREATOR
40 – RAYGUN
41 – SECRETS OF ROCK
42 – SHELL DEFAULT
43 – SOLARIZED DARK
44 – SOLARIZED LIGHT
45 – SON OF OBSIDIAN
46 – SSMS2012
47 – SUBLIME TEXT
48 – TERMINAL
49 – TOMORROW
50 – TOMORROW NIGHT
51 – TURNWALL
52 – TWILIGHT
53 – VISUAL ASSIST
54 – VS2012
55 – VS2012 BLACK
56 – X3INFO
57 – XCODE
SUMMARY
It should be noted that the Crayon Syntax Highlighter plugin has not been updated since 2015 so there may be compatibility issues with newer versions of PHP.
However, because it is still popular and used by many, users are continually finding solutions to commons issues. For troubleshooting with PHP 7.3, there is a quick fix posted on the plugin’s support page on wordpress.org that is accessible here.
Although the developer of this plugin doesn’t provide updates, it should still be fully functional for years to come thanks to the support from its community.
