Displaying code snippets in WordPress

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Ok, not technically a programming question but I want a plugin for my WordPress blog that displays code snippets.

Can anyone here recommend a good one? Also, do you guys know which one Jeff uses on codinghorror. That one looks really good.

Thanks.

Oren Trutner · Accepted Answer · 2009-08-21 08:43:34Z

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wordpress.com claims to use Alex Gorbatchev’s syntaxhighlighter Google Code project.

answered Aug 21, 2009 at 8:43

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Spidey Over a year ago

Thanks Oren, I'm now using viper007bond.com/wordpress-plugins/syntaxhighlighter which is based on Alex's project.

kuszi · Accepted Answer · 2011-02-01 20:23:54Z

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I guess you might be interested in run-this - there is a wordpress plugin to allow your readers to run your snippets in the browser.

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Filip Stefansson · Accepted Answer · 2011-07-12 18:14:17Z

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For WP-Snippets, I use Prettify.

You should probably use a plugin for escaping characters to be able to display code without having to do it yourself, or your code wont be displayed. Or just put this in functions.php in your theme folder to do this automatically:

function bbcode( $attr, $content = null ) {
    $content = clean_pre($content); // Clean pre-tags
    return '<pre"><code>' .
            str_replace('<', '&lt;', $content) . // Escape < chars
            '</code></pre>';
}
add_shortcode('code', 'bbcode');

And then wrap your code with [code]<?php echo 'hello world!'; ?>[/code]

Source: Code in posts

answered Jul 12, 2011 at 18:14

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