Self-hosted on WordPress
Pastebin Alternative That Keeps Your Code on Your Own Server
SnipShare is the WordPress-native Pastebin alternative. Install it and your members share code at your own domain, with syntax highlighting and version history built in. The snippets belong to you, not a hosted service.
Why people switch
Pastebin works until your code matters.
A hosted paste site is fine for throwaway snippets. The moment the code is part of your product, your course, or your community, the trade-offs add up. Ads run on top of your code. Private pastes sit behind a subscription. Snippets can expire or disappear without warning, and the whole archive lives on a server you do not control.
SnipShare turns that around. It puts the same paste workflow inside the WordPress site you already run, so the code you publish stays under your roof and keeps building your own domain.
What you get
The paste workflow, on terms you set.
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Your snippets stay yours
Code lives in your own WordPress database on your own server. No third-party host can read it, gate it, or take it down.
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Nothing expires unless you say so
Set an expiry when you want one. Leave it off and the paste stays online for as long as your site does. No quiet 30-day deletion.
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Private by choice, not by paywall
Mark a paste public, unlisted, password-protected, or burn-after-read. Privacy is a setting, not an upsell.
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Version history and forking built in
Every edit keeps a revision. Anyone can fork a paste, change it, and share their version back. The trail never disappears.
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Ranks on your own domain
Pastes sit at yourdomain.com/paste/, so the code you publish builds your search presence rather than someone else’s.
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Native to the WordPress you run
A plugin that drops into the site you already manage. It reads your members, your roles, and your BuddyPress or bbPress setup.
How it works
From install to a shareable link in minutes.
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Install the plugin
Add SnipShare to your WordPress site in under a minute. No account on a third-party service, no API key to manage.
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Create a paste
Paste your code, pick a language for syntax highlighting, add more files if you need them, and choose who can see it.
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Share the URL
You get a clean link on your own domain. Send it in a forum reply, a course lesson, a support ticket, or a member feed.
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Keep it forever
The paste stays where you put it. Edit it later and the older versions are still one click away.
Questions
What people ask before they move off Pastebin.
Is SnipShare a free Pastebin alternative?
SnipShare is paid, starting at $49 a year or $149 once for a single site. That entry tier covers the paste workflow people usually assume costs extra: multi-file pastes, syntax highlighting, five privacy levels, expiry, password protection, burn after reading, forking and collections, plus the BuddyPress integration. Revision history with diffs, the REST API, role-based limits and the moderation queue start at the $79 Developer tier. Every tier carries a 30-day money-back guarantee.
Where does my code actually live?
In your own WordPress database, on your own hosting. Nothing is mirrored to an external service. If you move hosts, the pastes move with the rest of your site, and the URLs keep working.
Can I keep pastes private?
Each paste has its own visibility. Public pastes are findable, unlisted pastes need the link, and password-protected pastes ask for a password before the code is shown. Burn-after-read pastes delete themselves once they have been viewed once.
Do my pastes expire automatically?
Only if you set an expiry. By default a paste stays online as long as your site is online. You decide retention per paste, so proprietary snippets do not vanish on a hosted provider’s schedule.
Will it work with my existing WordPress community?
Yes. SnipShare reads your existing members and roles, and it integrates with BuddyPress activity feeds and bbPress forum replies so people can attach and preview code without leaving your site.
Can I move my old pastes over?
Yes, through the REST API on the Developer tier. SnipShare exposes an endpoint for creating pastes, so a short script can recreate your existing snippets one by one. For a handful, the create form is quicker.
Is SnipShare an open source Pastebin alternative?
Partly, and the distinction is worth being exact about. SnipShare ships under the GPL like every WordPress plugin, so the source is readable and you may modify it for your own use. It is not free of charge, which is usually what people mean by an open source paste service. If your requirement is zero cost and full self-hosting, a project like PrivateBin or a self-hosted Hastebin fits that better, and neither of them integrates with your WordPress members, roles or community profiles. That integration is what you are paying for here.
Is there a Pastebin alternative with no login?
For reading, yes: public pastes are viewable by anyone, and unlisted pastes work from the link without an account while staying out of search and the explore list. Creating a paste is tied to an account on your own site, which is the deliberate difference from Pastebin. Anonymous posting is what makes public paste services a spam target, and on your own domain that cleanup would be yours.
Does it have an API?
Yes, on the Developer tier at $79 a year. The REST API covers creating and reading pastes, which is how bulk migrations off another service are done, and oEmbed means a paste URL dropped into a forum reply renders as a preview rather than a bare link.
What do people on Reddit recommend as a Pastebin alternative?
Usually a hosted service you can use in the next thirty seconds, because that is what the question normally means. If you want to paste something once and send a link, that advice is correct and this is not the tool. SnipShare answers a different question: where should the code your community writes live permanently, so it is searchable on your domain, attached to the member who wrote it, and still there in two years.
Not moving off a named service, just working out where your community's code should live? That question is answered on code snippet sharing.
Own your snippets, at your own domain.
Install SnipShare on your WordPress site and give your members a code-sharing home that you control. Move to Pro when you want Collections and bulk tools.