Code Block Pro – Beautiful Syntax Highlighting

1.27.7 – 2025-07-05

• Fixes a bug where block error warning messages would only affect the first block.
• Adds an update notice to users on the paid theme pack.

1.27.6 – 2025-06-29

• Fixes a bug where shortcodes with attributes would not be properly escaped.

1.27.5 – 2025-06-21

• Changes the default value for escaping wp shortcodes to true. Can’t see why anyone would want this any other way by default.
• Prevents shortcodes from rendering in the copy button

1.27.4 – 2025-06-20

• Prevents wp_texturize from affecting copied code snippets. You will see a block update for this change as I had to wrap the code in a pre tag.

1.27.3 – 2025-05-15

• Prevents smart quotes, typographic dashes, and other non-ASCII characters from affecting copied code snippets.

1.27.2 – 2025-05-15

• Refactors the copy button to use a textarea for copying
• Removed the WP outline style on the copy button and pre (now only when tab focused)

1.27.1 – 2025-05-15

• Now scrolls back into view after a max height collapse
• Disables scroll while the container is expanding
• Fixes a bug where collapsing doesn’t account for headers

1.27.0 – 2025-05-11

• Adds support for collapsing code blocks after expanding
• Tweaks the blur effect for better readability
• Fixes a bug where the controls were overflowing the toolbar

1.26.8 – 2025-03-24

• Fix Rtl bug

1.26.7 – 2025-03-23

• Removes .gitignore from the plugin distribution
• Updates tests

1.26.6 – 2024-09-30

• Fixes a bug related to rtl being applied by the webpack wp config

1.26.5 – 2024-09-30

• Adds option to disable php shortcode rendering
• Updates test element targeting to target new WP classes

1.26.4 – 2024-06-18

• Re-release with updated version number in readme. Making this a patch release as I worry some security plugins would otherwise complain.

1.26.3 – 2024-06-14

• Fix: Fixes support for ERB template syntax

1.26.2 – 2024-04-04

• Tweak: Changed the saved languages history from 3 to 5
• Fix: Addressed some contrast issues with print styles
• Testing: Updated tests to work better with latest WP

1.26.1 – 2024-01-31

• Fix: Fixes a bug where the plaintext language would crash the theme render

1.26.0 – 2024-01-17

• Feature: Added a copy button that allows for text inputs
• Feature: Added Roboto Mono font (https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Roboto+Mono)
• Feature: Added Hack font (https://github.com/source-foundry/Hack)
• Fix: Added a css dec to stop long text font upsizing on some mobile devices

1.25.0 – 2023-11-13

• Feature: Allow for overriding copy button text and invoke a callback
• Feature: Added new programming fonts, Monaspace (5), Geist, Cozette and Deja Vu
• Feature: Add pluggable sidebar slots to allow others to add functionality
• Tweak: Reorganized sidebar based on common daily usage
• Legal: Added (open source) license files for all fonts

1.24.1 – 2023-10-11

• Tweak: Line numbers width is now calculated based on the longest line number * font width
• Compatibility: Checks whether the user has permission via the browser instead of passing it in from the server (other plugins were intercepting this check)

1.24.0 – 2023-09-02

• Feature: Added Zig, mdc, Mojo, shellsession (console output), and splunk grammars
• Tweak: Combined confusing code aliases
• Fix: Fixed a bug where a setting would affect every block on the same page

1.23.0 – 2023-08-13

• Feature: Added Imba syntax
• Feature: Added two new header designs based on user requests, both using text inputs
• Tweak: The “see more” button options persist (theme, text, transition only)

1.22.1 – 2023-07-30

• Fix: Theme previews now respect the tabSize setting
• Fix: Added escapeHTML wrapper on code to code pro transform function
• Fix: Added some clarity on encoding, and added better edge cases handling
• Fix: Fixed an issue with the decoding with some sequences that would cause a block invalidation error.

1.22.0 – 2023-07-22

• Feature: Added tab support in the editor, with spacing options
• Feature: Added a way to convert back into a core code block
• Feature: Added the Non-Ligature version of Jetbrains Mono
• Fix: Fixed a spacing issue with tabs + line numbers
• Fix: Fixed a bug where the line highlighter would calc the longest highlighted line rather than longest line
• Tweak: Added pointer-events none to line blurs that are not removed on hover

1.21.0 – 2023-07-09

• Feature: Added a second copy button to choose from
• Feature: Added a tab size setting for when using the editor to add code. Defaults to 2 spaces.
• Tweak: Adjusts the highlight offset for comic mono

1.20.0 – 2023-06-25

• Feature: Added the following languages: Ledger (Beancount), Cypher (cql), Glimmer js/ts, JSONL, Narrat (nar), Nextflow (nf), Vyper (vy)
• Fix: Fixes an issue in the editor where some languages output an empty span tag that breaks the line number flow

1.19.0 – 2023-06-18

• Feature: Add Fantasque Sans Mono (https://github.com/belluzj/fantasque-sans)
• Feature: Add Comic Mono font (https://github.com/dtinth/comic-mono-font)
• Tweak: Default to Jetbrains Mono font
• Tweak: Rename the “Styling” panel to “Font Styling”
• Tweak: Remove line highlights on hover when blurred
• Tweak: Add minor adjustments for fonts to normalize line heights
• Fix: Block will be auto-focused on insert – WP6.2 regression
• Fix: Line highlight hover width was not rendering correctly
• Fix: Line highlighter will find the longest line to use as the highlighter width

1.18.0 – 2023-05-29

• Feature: Adds option to output html entities
• Tweak: Creates a new button settings area to support more buttons (coming soon)
• Tweak: Changes copying class to cbp-copying
• Fix: Fixed a bug where default settings weren’t saving

1.17.0 – 2023-05-06

• Feature: Add line highlighting on hover
• Tweak: Updated the line highlighting sidebar language to be more clear (hopefully)
• Fix: Removed pointer events from line highlights so you can select text under it
• Fix: Adds styling to avoid CLS in the editor on page load

1.16.1 – 2023-05-01

• Tweak: Removes the filtering of bash and zsh filtering
• Fix: Better language sorting (by label instead of key)
• Fix: Fix typo in Wolfram language key

1.16.0 – 2023-04-30

• Feature: Added new language grammars: GD Script, GD Resource, GD Shader, GLSL, Http, Jison, JSON5, Kusto (kql), Protocol Buffers (.proto), Windows Registry (.reg), V, WGSL, and Wolfram
• Tweak: Removed toolbar language select and added functionality to focus on the sidebar setting
• Refactor: Moved header/footer settings out of the language select into their own panels

1.15.0 – 2023-04-08

• Feature: Add notice to users who do not have permission to update
• Feature: Added hooks to allow users to add their own themes (or via the theme pack)
• Feature: Add plaintext option to allow rendering as text

1.14.0 – 2023-03-26

• Feature: Added theme identifier to toolbar
• Feature: Added some filters for attributes and buttons
• Tweak: Updated various styles
• Testing: Updated Cypress to test against latest RC on main push
• Testing: Integration tests now run concurrently to isolate flakey failures
• Fix: Added custom endpoint for settings, allowing edit_post cap users
• Fix: Removed a type conversion to false, causing dirty posts on focus
• Accessibility: Added keydown events to frontend copy button

1.13.0 – 2023-02-05

• Feature: Add scrollable max height area with no button (Max Height panel)
• Feature: Add expanding code area with max height based on line number
• Feature: Added ANSI rendering support – some themes do not look perfect yet
• Fix: Disabled font ligatures in the editor as it broke cursor positioning on wraps

1.12.0 – 2023-01-28

• Feature: Added Ara, Power Query, and DAX language support
• Fix: Fixed preview output on theme selection
• Fix: Fixed theme selection font rendering (to match preview better)

1.11.3 – 2023-01-08

• Fix: Encode and decode html entities to prevent script tag bug

1.11.2 – 2023-01-04

• Fix: Update shiki renderer wasm loader to use ArrayBuffer
• Tweak: Expose init function as global to allow late init

1.11.1 – 2023-01-04

• Fix: Revert code parser as there is a wasm loading error

1.11.0 – 2023-01-03

• Feature: Add theme name text search
• Feature: Add theme visibility manager to limit visible themes
• Tweak: Show better error when theme is missing
• Fix: Renderer source url has a double slash

1.10.0 – 2022-12-21

• Feature: Add footer with left aligned text
• Tweak: Load scripts (copy button, highlight) on multiple lifecycle points
• Tweak: Make the above scripts idempotent so they can run multiple times safely
• Fix: Removes inner focus outline from Gutenberg update

1.9.3 – 2022-12-05

• Fix: Adjusted editor padding for line numbers to better match the front end
• Fix: Removed the TW border default in the editor as it was overriding some wp defaults
• Fix: Updated a typo on the word “focus”
• Testing: Adds coverage for every main feature

1.9.2 – 2022-11-22

• Compatibility: Adds a method override to allow users to activate when prismatic is installed

1.9.1 – 2022-11-21

• Fix: Fixed a situations where the highlighter was miscalculating its width

1.9.0 – 2022-11-20

• Feature: Added line highlights
• Feature: Added blur effect to highlight lines
• Tweak: Added the copy button to the editor preview
• Tweak: Removed HC Light – will follow up on rendering issues
• Fix: Selected text no longer leaves padding exposed on the right

1.8.0 – 2022-11-17

• Feature: Added footer styles
• Accessibility: Increased line number color contrast
• Accessibility: Increased copy button contrast
• Tweak: Disabled autocomplete on settings inputs
• Tweak: Added help context to variations that have inputs
• Fix: Fixed a bug where disabling padding on one block would update all
• Fix: Line numbers + disabled padding no longer formats weird in the editor
• Fix: Scrollbars are now using auto instead of scroll
• Fix: The loading screen on the theme viewer now fills the container
• Fix: With line numbers, changing the font now will recalculate the width

1.7.0 – 2022-11-09

• Feature: Add line number support

1.6.0 – 2022-09-09

• Feature: Add additional header styles
• Feature: Allow overriding the label in the header
• Tweak: Adjust copy button opacity interactions

1.5.2 – 2022-09-08

• Fix: Fix padding on copy button when padding is disabled

1.5.1 – 2022-09-05

• Tweak: Allow users to disable padding
• Fix: Fixes a bug where the header type set to none doesn’t persist
• Fix: Clamp font settings were not being persisted

1.5.0 – 2022-09-05

• Feature: Add toggle so users can clamp font sizes to reasonable values.
• Show font styling in theme select sidebar

1.4.0 – 2022-09-04

• Feature: Add header “window controls” style option
• Feature: Add dynamic coding font imports
• Feature: Add “recent languages” section to quick switch
• Feature: Add alternate way to transform from core block

1.3.0 – 2022-09-04

• Feature: Add font size controls
• Feature: Add Line height controls
• Feature: Persist settings in the database instead of localStorage
• Fix: Fix overflow editor bug

1.2.8 – 2022-08-31

• Compatibility: Disable Prismatic. They use an encoding function on all code indiscriminately, breaking this plugin.

1.2.7 – 2022-08-31

• Fix: Add style overrides for the Hueman theme (and generally good overrides)

1.2.6 – 2022-08-30

• Fix: Force disable wrapping and overflow for bootstrap based themes.

1.2.5 – 2022-08-30

• Fix: Force disable wrapping and overflow for some themes.

1.2.4 – 2022-08-30

• Fix: Limit alignments to wide and full only.

1.2.3 – 2022-08-29

• Fix: Force left text alignment in the editor
• Tweak: Set WP default alignment to “none”
• Testing: Add item verification on scroll before click

1.2.2 – 2022-08-28

• Fix: Zeros out margins on pre elements for better theme compatibility

1.2.1 – 2022-08-27

• Fix: Remove nested pre tags (changed to div) in editor
• Feature: Added test coverage with cypress

1.2.0 – 2022-08-27

• Feature: Convert code from the core code block
• Feature: Convert code from SyntaxHighlighter Evolved
• Feature: Add toolbar language select
• Feature: Add language “nice names”
• Fix: Remove line wrap from frontend

1.1.0 – 2022-08-22

• Feature: Add filters to hook into output
• Tweak: Set copy button on by default

1.0.0 – 2022-08-20

• Initial release