Posting Source Codes In WordPress

admin — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 07:51:18 +0000

If you’re running some kind of a blog wherein you need to post source codes, snippets and stuff, you could run into problems. Now, this blog uses a plugin called SyntaxHighlighter. You can simply download and install the plugin as any other WordPress plugin, and you’re ready to post source codes.

You just need to enclose your source code inside ‘sourcecode’ BB Tag, also specifying the language (the instructions explain this), and you’re done. One good thing about this plugin is that the rendering is javascript based, so your server needn’t take great amount of load to get syntax highlighted.

Fortunately, you don’t even need to HTML encode your source code. Remember to disable your Visual Editor for best results. I don’t think the plugin specifies this, but after my bad experiences with it, I’ll think 100 times before switching it on.

Lastly, here’s an example of how it’d look,

#include 

int main()
{
	cout<<"It's working, isn't it?";
	return 0;
}

Have a happy time blogging codes!

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Posting Source Codes In WordPress