Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-1915726-20150408014630/@comment-452-20150408155006

Wikia Staff made the deliberate choice to only allow "WikitextSyntaxHighlighting" to be disabled and not "CodeSyntaxHighlighting"

static public function isCodeSyntaxHighlightingEnabled( Title $articleTitle ) { global $wgEnableEditorSyntaxHighlighting; return self::isCodePage( $articleTitle ) && $wgEnableEditorSyntaxHighlighting; } static public function isWikitextSyntaxHighlightingEnabled { global $wgEnableEditorSyntaxHighlighting, $wgUser; return $wgEnableEditorSyntaxHighlighting && !$wgUser->getOption( 'disablesyntaxhighlighting' ); }

The option originally did both when it was added on March 10th.

Then on March 11th, it was split into two so that Code highlighting could not be disabled.