Is HTML Editor Syntax Highlighter still maintained?

Looks abandoned

No update in 30 months. On WordPress, an abandoned plugin is the most common way a site gets compromised — nobody is shipping the security fix when one is needed.

60K+

Active installs

4.4/5

Rating

2024-03-16

Last update

6.5.0

Tested up to WP

Read from the WordPress.org plugin API on 2026-09-16, covering 71,729 plugins. Active install counts are the directory’s own rounded buckets. “Looks abandoned” describes update cadence, not code quality — a simple plugin that does one thing may need no updates, but it also stops being tested against new WordPress releases.