75
Highlighting Code Block
Great colors for developers who do not use Java or Kotlin.
HealthyGrowing
75/100
The syntax looks clean but fatal errors and limited language support temper the rating.
Active installs
~26,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 10k+
Rating
4.5★
19 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+177%
Growing fast
24 → 67 installs/day
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Growing fast · +177% in the last year
24/day a year ago→67/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayHighlighting Code Block is praised for clean syntax highlighting that matches editor colors, but users report serious stability, limited language support, performance, configuration, and support issues.
What people like
- +Provides clean syntax highlighting that can match the colors of the user's editor
Common complaints
- −Causes a fatal error (ValueError) due to an unknown format specifier, breaking the site (since 2.0.1)
- −Does not support Java, Kotlin, Flutter, or XML syntax, limiting usefulness for Android developers
- −Performance concerns: large asset size and multiple JS/CSS files that could be merged
- −Configuration is difficult
- −Support is non-existent
- −Cannot output the file name alongside highlighted code
Review trustMostly organic
- 4.63★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.50★
- 16%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
- past spikeReview timing — up to 40% of all reviews landed in a single month
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-08-192025-01-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 19 total
Latest reviews · 19 analyzed
- 2024-04-14★★★★★站点爆炸liuliu661-shot
- 2024-03-19★★★★★very nicesazone1-shot
- 2023-12-17★★★★★Good Job!ishere1-shot
- 2023-11-12★★★★★No support for Android syntaxRouzbeh Zarei
- 2023-07-25★★★★★A+ Once I figured out the BLOCKS part!Anonymous User 20287723
- 2023-03-03★★★★★Thank you!Muhammad Zohaib
- 2022-11-27★★★★★I use this plugin a lotShihab Ul Hoque
- 2022-11-08★★★★★Good Effort, Keep up the work ♥Ibrahim Sharif
- 2022-10-09★★★★★Difficult to usenamelyjt
- 2021-11-01★★★★★in loveJonas
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNFor developers & the curious
the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
111
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
57
Prior 7-day baseline
128
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
4,814
Mean release-day peak (30d)
111
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
+94.7%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
40%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
2.97
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
84%
5★ share in analyzed sample
16%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.47 → 4.63★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered