Title: FV Code Highlighter
Author: Frank Verhoeven
Published: <strong>September 16, 2008</strong>
Last modified: August 14, 2019

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It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# FV Code Highlighter

 By [Frank Verhoeven](https://profiles.wordpress.org/frankverhoeven/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/fv-code-highlighter.2.2.1.zip)

 * [Details](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/fv-code-highlighter/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/fv-code-highlighter/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/fv-code-highlighter/#installation)
 * [Development](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/fv-code-highlighter/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/fv-code-highlighter/)

## Description

Do you have a lot of code on your blog, and want to make it more readable? Then 
this is the plugin for you!
 This plugin supports the highlighting of PHP, (x)HTML,
JavaScript, CSS and XML. The default highlighter color scheme uses the same colors
Adobe’s Dreamweaver is using. This makes it easy for your visitors to recognize 
what type of codes you wrote and quickly read through them. Want to modify the default
color scheme? No problem! With a little bit of knowledge about CSS, you can completely
customize the output of the plugin.

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * PHP Code with dark mode enabled
 * [[
 * The configuration page.
 * [[
 * PHP Code with notepaper background and toolbox
 * [[
 * General Code
 * [[
 * CSS Code
 * [[
 * HTML Code with embedded CSS and Javascript
 * [[
 * JavaScript Code
 * [[
 * PHP Code

## Installation

This section describes how to install the plugin and get it up & running.

#### Requirements

In order to successfully use this plugin, you will need the following:

 * PHP 7.0 or higher
 * WordPress 4.0 or higher

#### Installation Steps

 1. Upload the folder `fv-code-highlighter` to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory.
 2. Make sure the cache dir `/wp-content/plugins/fv-code-highlighter/cache` is writable
    by your webserver.
 3. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
 4. Choose your preferred settings on the options page: WP Admin > Appearance > Code
    Highlighter.
 5. Place your code between

    ```
     .. code .. 
    ```

tags to use the highlighter. Replace `codetype` with the type of code you like to
highlight (e.g. php).

#### Custom Color Scheme

If you like to make some modifications to the default color scheme, all you need
is a little
 bit of knowledge about CSS. Simply copy the file `fv-community-news/
public/css/fvch-styles.css` to the root of your current theme directory and start
editing.

## FAQ

Q: Can this plugin be used to highlight code in comments?
 A: Yes! Using the tags
in comments will work. Even bbPress topics/replies are supported.

Q: My PHP code is not highlighted correctly?
 A: With version 2.0 and up, it is 
required to start PHP code with PHP tags (<?php, <?=)

Q: I have a great idea for this plugin, could I make a suggestion?
 A: Sure you 
can! [Let me know about it](https://frankverhoeven.me/wordpress-plugin-fv-code-highlighter/).

Q: What to do if I found a bug?
 A: Please report the bug to me as soon as possible.
This way I can solve the problem and make the plugin better for everyone. Visit 
the post at [https://frankverhoeven.me/wordpress-plugin-fv-code-highlighter/](https://frankverhoeven.me/wordpress-plugin-fv-code-highlighter/).

## Reviews

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### 󠀁[Requires more work than some](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/requires-more-work-than-some/)󠁿

 [malevola](https://profiles.wordpress.org/malevola/) December 26, 2017

It works, but requires you to format your own CSS to make it look pretty at all.
I prefer Prismatic and Simple Code Highlighter.

 [ Read all 2 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/fv-code-highlighter/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

“FV Code Highlighter” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Frank Verhoeven ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/frankverhoeven/)

[Translate “FV Code Highlighter” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/fv-code-highlighter)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/fv-code-highlighter/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/fv-code-highlighter/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/fv-code-highlighter/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/fv-code-highlighter/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

For more details on changes, please see the commits on [GitHub](https://github.com/frankverhoeven/fv-code-highlighter/commits/master).

#### 2.2.1

 * Fix: A failed version check no longer crashes the plugin.

#### 2.2

 * New: Support for Gutenberg code blocks!
 * Improvement: Added the Doctrine coding standard and cleaned up code according
   to it.
 * Improvement: Various significant performance improvements.
 * Improvement: More content is cached so less has to be parsed each request.
 * Improvement: Various code improvements.
 * Fix: Newlines were not always correctly displayed without line numbers.
 * Fix: Copy code to clipboard now correcly includes newlines.

#### 2.1.3

 * Improvement: Various small fixes and code improvements.

#### 2.1.2

 * Improvement: PHP Code is no longer required to start with PHP tags to be highlighted.

#### 2.1.1

 * Fix: PHP 7.0 Compatibility

#### 2.1

 * New: All new Dark Mode that displays code with a dark background.
 * Improvement: New text select icon.
 * Improvement: Use the settings API for the admin page.
 * Improvement: Prepend global scope with ‘\’ to improve performance.
 * Fix: Installer fixes.

#### 2.0.5

 * Change: Require PHP >= 7.
 * Improvement: General code improvements.

#### 2.0.4

 * Fix: The copy-icon is now loaded correct.

#### 2.0.3

 * Change: Code should now be placed between

(old tags still work for now)
 * Impovement: General code improvements

#### 2.0.2

 * New: New Xcode inspired color scheme for PHP.
 * New: PHP highlighter now also highlights classes, methods and phpdoc.
 * Improvement: Stylesheet is minified.
 * Improvement: Colorscheme stylesheet is dynamically loaded.
 * Change: Font-size unit is changed from px to em.

#### 2.0

 * New: Entirely rewritten parsing engine
 * New: Bash code highlighter
 * New: General highlighter that is used when a code type is not explicitly supported
 * Improvement: Performance enhancements
 * Improvement: Updated CSS keywords
 * Change: PHP code must start with a PHP tag (<?php, <?=) for the highlighter to
   work correctly
 * Fix: Various highlighter fixes

## Meta

 *  Version **2.2.1**
 *  Last updated **7 years ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 4.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **5.2.24**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/fv-code-highlighter/)
 * Tags
 * [code](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/code/)[code highlighting](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/code-highlighting/)
   [formatting](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/formatting/)[Highlight](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/highlight/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/fv-code-highlighter/advanced/)

## Ratings

 4 out of 5 stars.

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## Contributors

 *   [ Frank Verhoeven ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/frankverhoeven/)

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/fv-code-highlighter/)

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