CodeMirror Blocks

Description

CodeMirror Blocks is useful for developers blog, tutorial site where to display formatted (highlighted) code of any program.
It supports 100+ Programming, Scripting and MarkUp Language, with 56 Different Themes.

The Code Block is dependent on a CodeMirror library.

Formatted Code Block is like (syntax highlighting feature) that displays source code, in different colors and fonts according to the category of terms. It is one strategy to improve the readability and context of the text; especially for code that spans several pages. The reader can easily ignore large sections of comments or code, depending on what they are looking for.

This plugin is just plug and play, no tedious configurations or hacks, just install, activate and start using block inserter.

Features

• Control Panel Added on top of the Code Block.
  ** It displays language/filename.
  ** It also display three buttons, includes Run/Execute, FullScreen, Copy Code.
• Web editor (Execution of HTML, CSS JavaScript block) With CodeMirror Block 1.1
• Option Page for set default options
• Highlight Active Line (now available on CodeMirror Block 1.1)
• CodeMirror Block 1.1 now support Block align (Wide Width, Full Width) if your theme Supports.

• Classic Editor Support (Partial)

• Lightweight and fast

• Secure code with using clear coding standards
• Intuitive interface with many settings
• Cross browser compatible (work smooth in any modern browser)
• Works also on android mobile browser
• Compatible with all Default WordPress themes (tested with Latest Twenty Twenty-Four)
  • Twenty Twenty-Four
  • Twenty Twenty-Three
  • Twenty Twenty-Two
  • Twenty Twenty-One
  • Twenty Twenty
• Also Compatible with other third-party themes.

Key features include

• Code syntax highlighting
• Line number (On/Off) option
• 56 Themes (all provided themes from CodeMirror)
• 100+ Programming languages (all most provided languages from CodeMirror)
• Programming language selection option
• Loading CodeMirror files on pages only when needed

A list of supported themes:

• 3024 day
• 3024 night
• Ambiance mobile
• Ambiance
• Base16 dark
• Base16 light
• Blackboard
• Cobalt
• Colorforth
• Eclipse
• Elegant
• Erlang dark
• Lesser dark
• Liquibyte
• MBO
• MDN-like
• Midnight
• Monokai
• Neat
• Neo
• Night
• Paraiso dark
• Paraiso light
• Pastel on dark
• Rubyblue
• Reactjs.org Theme
• Solarized
• The matrix
• Tomorrow night bright
• Tomorrow night eighties
• TTCN
• Twilight
• Vibrant ink
• XQ dark
• XQ light
• Zenburn

Credits

• This Plugin use CodeMirror library to highlight Code Blocks. CodeMirror is an open-source project shared under the MIT license.

Screenshots

Blocks

This plugin provides 1 block.

• Codemirror Block CodeMirror Block, It gives you more flexibility to Display formatted Program Code.

Installation

Install “CodeMirror Blocks” just as you would any other WordPress Plugin.

Automatically via WordPress Admin Area:

1. Log in to Admin Area of your WordPress website.
2. Go to Plugins -> Add New.
3. Find this plugin and click install.
4. Activate this plugin through the Plugins tab.

Manually via FTP access:

1. Download a copy (ZIP file) of this plugin from www.ads-software.com.
2. Unzip the ZIP file.
3. Upload the unzipped catalog to your website’s plugin directory (/wp-content/plugins/).
4. Log in to Admin Area of your WordPress website.
5. Activate this plugin through the Plugins tab.

More help installing plugins

FAQ

Q. It Supports Classic Editor?

Yes, Now it supports classic editor. So, works with tinyMCE editor. But it not support live syntax highlighting.

Q. It is Run without Gutenberg?

Yes, But if you want get live syntax highlighting, you have to install and activate Gutenberg, or Update your WordPress to latest version with built-in Block Editor.

Q. How to insert Code Block in Post?

A. Adding Code Block is same as inserting other Blocks.

1. Log in to Admin Area of your WordPress website.
2. Go to Posts -> Add New.
3. Click The + button. it display all available Blocks to Insert.
4. Find or Search Code Block.
5. Click Code Block to insert in Post.

Q. How to change Language / Mode of Code Block?

A. Just select your Language / Mode from Select Dropdown.

Q. How to change color Theme of Code Block?

A. Just select your Theme from Select Dropdown.

Q. How to enable or disable Line Numbers?

A. Just click toggle button to (On/Off) it.

Q. How to enable or disable Highlight Active Line?

A. Just click toggle button to (On/Off) it.

Q. How to enable or disable Warp Long Line?

A. Just click toggle button to (On/Off) it.

Q. Does this require any knowledge of HTML or CSS?

A. Absolutely not. This plugin can be configured with no knowledge of HTML or CSS, using an easy-to-use Block. But you have to know about copy paste code on CodeMirror Block, and select proper Language/Mode and Theme.

Q. The last WordPress update is preventing me from editing my website that is using this plugin. Why is this?

A. This plugin can not cause such problem. More likely, the problem are related to the settings of the website. It could just be a cache, so please try to clear your website’s cache (may be you using a caching plugin, or some web service such as the CloudFlare) and then the cache of your web browser. Also please try to re-login to the website, this too can help.

Reviews

Fantastic Plugin

linuxbeast June 8, 2024 1 reply

Awesome code mirror blocks with syntax highlighting. Perfect for adding code snippets. Highly recommended!

Good plugin for code block

pcskull April 10, 2024

Good plugin for code block

Top great work!

minimamente April 9, 2024

Top great work!

Very usefull

bertrandroussel April 18, 2023

This plugin is very usefull to have a blog about computing development.

Perfect Syntax Highliter with Preview Mode

Gobinda Tarafdar July 1, 2022

Thanks for creating this great tool. It solves my problem. It works as you have described. I love the preview running option. Great work. Keep rocking, brother.

Very Nice

alimnette January 10, 2022

Hello Vicky, this plugin is great to use. however the folding function is missing.

Contributors & Developers

Changelog

2.0.3

• Fix: Adding ADDITIONAL CSS CLASS(ES) breaks the code
• Fix: Extra line at the end of the code.

2.0.2

• Fix: Everything is duplicated code block rendered twice bug.

2.0.1

• Fix: Minor bug

2.0.0

• Fix: Cross-Site Scripting issue. See it on GitHub Advisory or Wordfence
• Removed: Due to Cross-Site Scripting issue, Code Execution functionality (beta functionality) removed.
• Removed: Now, Dependency of jQuery is not needed any more. It is written in pure JavaScript.
• Feature: Suggested Vertical Scrollbar with Fixed Width
• Fix: Cannot show the last 1~2 lines in full screen view
• Fix: Font side design not working when multiple use
• Fix: Editing name does not stick…

1.2.4

• Fix: Deprecated block_categories error
• Fix: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading ‘toLowerCase’)
• Fix: Only Displaying Styles for First Code Snippet
• Fix: Did’nt work mutipe in one Site
• Fix: Registered with an invalid category
• Fix: Deprecated: block_categories

1.2.3

• Fix: SVG CSS issue.
• Fix: Unwanted animation in html element use

1.2.2

• Fix: Undo (Ctrl+Z) command makes the block unusable.

1.2.1

• Fix: Problem with “First Line Number” while trying re-editing the post

1.2.0

• Added: New Panel Added on top of Code Block.

It Contains Language label witch display language used in block

Three Buttons
1. Run/Execute Button Requested
1. Full Screen Button
1. Copy Code Button Requested
* Added: Enable Code Block on Home page Requested
* Fix: Codeblock Display Issue

1.1.3

• Fix: Issue Problems with the default highlighting setting

1.1.2

• Fix: Issue Html code

1.1.1

• Fix: Typo on Settings Page.

1.1.0

• Update: Now with CodeMirror Block it is more optimized and have new features.
• Add: Option Page for set default options. Suggested
• Add: Support for Classic Editor Suggested
• Optimized: Now, CodeMirror Block js and css files will only load if needed Suggested
• Beta Add: Button for Execute code only works on HTML, CSS and JavaScript type code block Suggested
• Fix: With Autoptimize it breaks some JavaScript. Suggested

1.0.7

• Update: Suggested Code.

1.0.6

• Add: Added 2 Event Listeners wpcm_editor_loaded and wpcm_editors_loaded

1.0.5

• Improve: Performance Improved.
• Update: Suggested Code.

1.0.4

• Change: minor changes.

1.0.3

• Improve: Performance.
• Add: Some Suggested Code.

1.0.2

• Change: minor changes.

1.0.1

• Fix: Rust language issue.
• Fix: simple mode addon for (Docerfile, factor)
• Fix: htmlembded mode addon for (Embedded JavaScript, Embedded Ruby, ASP.NET, Java Server Pages)

1.0

• Created A New Plugin.