Advance Custom HTML – Show Off Code Snippets with Live Preview vs Syntax-highlighting Code Block (with Server-side Rendering)

Share HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, and Python snippets that readers can see, copy, and watch run live – right inside your posts and pages. Advance Custom HTML | Pricing | Support | Live Demo Why Advance Custom HTML? Plain code dumps are hard to read and impossible to interact with. Advance Custom HTML lets you display HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Python, and other code snippets in WordPress posts, pages, or widgets with built-in syntax highlighting, a clean code editor, and live preview support – so your readers see the code and the result side by side. The plugin includes a front-end code editor with a draggable preview panel, multiple syntax themes, and customizable settings for formatting and appearance. It is ideal for tutorials, technical articles, and documentation – a flexible, responsive way to embed and present code with real-time results. Free Features Edit Code with Live Preview: Write code and see the rendered output together in the editor. Live Output Preview: See the results of your code instantly. Autocomplete Suggestions: Get smart suggestions while writing code. Draggable Preview Panel: Move the output panel anywhere on screen. Editor Font Size: Set the font size that suits your content. Fully Responsive: Mobile-friendly code blocks and preview panels on every device. Lightweight and Fast: Built for performance so your pages stay quick. Pro Version – Unlock Advanced Controls The Pro version offers extended customization and control over code presentation and layout. Pro features include: Choose from 40+ editor themes (dark, light, minimal, and more). Adjust tab size, line wrapping, and editor height/width. Change syntax mode per snippet: HTML, CSS, JS, PHP, Python, and more. Toggle features: copy button, fold gutter, highlight active line, and more. Customize the Copy to Clipboard button text, icon, style, and position. Hide headings or labels for a clean, minimalist look. Show or hide line numbers to simplify code presentation. Enable or disable wrap to control line flow in your editor. Set the code editor/snippet height and width, and align left, center, or right. Fold gutter support for collapsing code blocks. Highlight active line toggle for easier focus during tutorials. How to Use – Quick Start Install and activate Advance Custom HTML. Open the editor for any post or page. Click Add Block and select Advance Custom HTML under Widgets. Write or paste your code. Customize the settings (theme, preview, copy button). Publish or update the content. Live Demo | Buy The Pro Use Cases HTML/CSS Tutorials: Write and preview front-end lessons with live results. JavaScript Demos: Embed snippets with instant, interactive output. PHP Education: Display PHP code cleanly in courses and articles. Data Science Blogs: Show Python syntax with proper highlighting. Developer Documentation: Publish API guides and reference docs. Interactive Articles: Create code content readers can explore with live editing. Perfect for bloggers, tech writers, instructors and course creators, web developers, software product sites, and anyone publishing HTML, JS, CSS, PHP, or Python code. Check out our other WordPress Plugins- Html5 Video Player – Display videos as single and playlist in multiple skins. PDF Poster – Display/Embed PDF files with different styles. Html5 Audio Player – Listen audios with awesome visuals. StreamCast – Customizable radio player with different skins. 3D Viewer – Embed 3D models and 3D products with interaction. Advanced Post Block – Show posts and custom posts in different layouts.

This plugin extends the Code block in WordPress core to add syntax highlighting which is rendered on the server. Pre-existing Code blocks on a site are automatically extended to include syntax highlighting. Doing server-side syntax highlighting eliminates the need to enqueue any JavaScript on the frontend (e.g. Highlight.js or Prism.js) and this ensures there is no flash of unhighlighted code (FOUC?). Reducing script on the frontend improves frontend performance, and it also allows for the syntax highlighted code to appear properly in AMP pages as rendered by the official AMP plugin (see also ampproject/amp-wp#972) or when JavaScript is turned off in the browser. This extended Code block uses language auto-detection to add syntax highlighting, but you can override the language in the block’s settings sidebar. (There is currently no syntax highlighting of the Code block in the editor, but see #8.) The plugin supports all programming languages that highlight.php supports (being a port of highlight.js). The Code block also is extended to support specifying lines to highlight which get marked up with mark elements (including in RSS feeds). There is also a checkbox for whether to show line numbers on the frontend (with the numbers being non-selectable). Lastly, given inconsistencies across themes regarding whether lines in a Code block should be wrapped, this plugin adds styling to force them to no-wrap by default, with a checkbox to opt in to wrapping when desired. For advanced usage, please see the plugin wiki. This plugin is developed on GitHub. See list of current issues with the plugin. Please feel free to file any additional issues or requests that you may come across. Pull requests are welcome. See contributing information. Credits This is a fork of Code Syntax Block by Marcus Kazmierczak (mkaz), which is also available on WordPress.org. Copyright (c) 2018 Marcus Kazmierczak. Licensed under GPL 2.0 or later. highlight.php is released under the BSD 3-Clause License. Copyright © 2006-2013, Ivan Sagalaev ([email protected]), highlight.js (original author). Copyright © 2013, Geert Bergman ([email protected]), highlight.php