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Lazy Syntax Highlighter
The lazy way to highlight code — rendered on the server, cached, and zero front-end JavaScript. Renders your existing Enlighter blocks as they are.
Lazy Syntax Highlighter ranks #47,232 among WordPress.org plugins with 0+ active installations, and was last updated Sep 14, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.
Compatible with WP 7.1
v1.3.1
Current Version v1.3.1
Updated 1 day ago
Last Update on 14 Sep, 2026
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- Version
- 1.3.1
- Last Updated
- Sep 14, 2026
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- 6.3+
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- 7.1
- PHP Version
- 7.4 or higher
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Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about Lazy Syntax Highlighter
Most highlighters ship a JavaScript engine to every visitor and colour the code in the browser, which is why code flashes plain before it is styled. Lazy Syntax Highlighter does the work on your server once, caches the HTML, and sends colour with the page. The front end gets a few kilobytes of CSS and nothing else.
Not on its own. Both compatibility layers — Enlighter blocks and WordPress's own Code blocks — work at render time and write nothing to the database. Deactivating the plugin restores the previous behaviour exactly. Two settings can change posts, and only when you press Update on the post yourself: Convert in the editor (Enlighter blocks, on by default, because those blocks would otherwise render unstyled while you're writing) and Convert code blocks in the editor (core Code blocks, off by default, because those work fine as they are).
No. They render correctly as they are, indefinitely. If you want to convert one, place the cursor in it and use the block transform.
Those are picked up as well: on the front end they get the same theme, padding, line numbers and copy button as a Lazy Syntax Highlighter block, and nothing is written to your database. Core's Code block stores no language, though, so they arrive without token colours. To get those, opening a post converts them into Lazy Syntax Highlighter blocks in the editor — the change is only saved when you press Update, and both behaviours can be turned off under Lazy Syntax Highlighter in the admin menu.
Your site is not left broken. Deleting the plugin converts every Lazy Syntax Highlighter block back into a standard WordPress Code block, so you are left with working first-party blocks rather than markup from a plugin you no longer have. Your code comes across byte for byte; the per-block language, theme and line settings do not, because core has nowhere to keep them. Deactivating changes nothing at all.
Yes. The free plugin is the engine the paid add-on is built on, so every fix and language improvement lands here first. It is not going anywhere.
Yes — Lazy Syntax Highlighter Pro, an optional add-on that installs alongside this plugin and adds 19 more themes (24 total), extra header styles, a "show more" toggle for long code blocks, site-wide and per-post default languages, and a one-command WP-CLI Enlighter migration with rollback. The free plugin is complete and unrestricted without it. See https://syntax.lazyadmin.nl.
Yes. Every visitor gets identical HTML, so full-page caches (WP Rocket, W3 Total Cache, LiteSpeed, Cloudflare) and CDNs cache pages normally.
Code blocks fall back to a plain <pre><code> containing your code, correctly escaped. Readable, just not coloured.
Only if you enable the copy button, and then only on pages that have one. Highlighting itself is entirely server-side.