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WordPress.com just made coding from your WordPress admin more powerful and enjoyable. Whether you’re an everyday user or a developer, you’ll have access to modern features like syntax highlighting, autocomplete, and search and replace when you reach for the code editor.

Launched in the last week, we’re bringing enhanced code editors to two aspects of the WordPress.com experience:

• Post and site code editors
• Additional CSS input box

Let’s dive into what this upgraded experience looks like.

Customize block code in the post and site editors

Have you ever opened the Code editor from the block or site editor and been presented with a mass block of nearly unreadable text with no syntax highlighting?

You’ve probably wished for something a tiny bit more sophisticated. Maybe even something that would help you type faster, spot errors easily, or just simply make the code easier to read.

Until now, that didn’t exist unless you installed a custom…