How to blog code at wordpress.com [closed]

Question

got a new blog at wordpress few days ago (http://ghads.wordpress.com) and I want to post some code snippets now or then. Is there anyway to make it look like code without paying for extra plugins?

Meehan

what plugin did you use and theme for your blog, please share it if you can – Daiquiri

Answer 1

See here: http://en.support.wordpress.com/code/posting-source-code/

Wrap your code in these tags: [sourcecode language='css'] .. [/sourcecode]

(or shorter [code lang='css'] .. [/code] )

Note that Visual Editor doesn't interpret the tags, you need to click Preview to see how it works.

Available language codes:

• actionscript3
• bash
• clojure
• coldfusion
• cpp
• csharp
• css
• delphi
• erlang
• fsharp
• diff
• groovy
• html
• javascript
• java
• javafx
• matlab (keywords only)
• objc
• perl
• php
• text
• powershell
• python
• r
• ruby
• scala
• sql
• vb
• xml

Heracliteanism

This page shows all the supported languages: en.support.wordpress.com/code/posting-source-code – Heliocentric

Doesn't work for me for some reason. I see the tags in the preview as if they were ordinary text. – Graf

And no haskell... hilarious – Destroy

@Graf why? I used it and the output is this: gsamaras.wordpress.com/code/quicksort-c – Hunsinger

Didn't work for me either: There is just large blank whitespace where the code snippet should have rendered – Margemargeaux

Do the code tags use [] or <>? Should that be placed in the Wordpress editor's 'Visual' or 'Text' view? – Margemargeaux

Does this work only on wordpress.com, whereas wordpress.org might require a plugin? – Margemargeaux

If you are hosting your own wordpress site then you need to install the plugin "SyntaxHighlighter Evolved" and use the tag [code] ... [/code]. This is explained at the bottom of en.support.wordpress.com/code/posting-source-code. – Xerophagy

Download the plugin from : wordpress.org/plugins/syntaxhighlighter Then upload the downloaded zip file (syntaxhighlighter.zip) in your wordpress site "Plugins" section. Click on "Upload Plugin" button to upload. – Callison

Answer 2

You can also use hilite.me. It doesn't require installation of plugins or JS/CSS files. It's also open-source and has an API.

Disclaimer: I'm the developer.

Nolitta

I find this much better than using the buildin [code] markdown, which seems to interfere with my code snippets. Thanks. – Crossgarnet

This is super legit. Works and is just code too – Bargeman

This worked far better for me than the accepted answer. – Sarson

Works fantastic. Thanks! – Irbm

Answer 3

Crayon Syntax Highlighter is an excellent free plugin. I went with that one, but there are many others I came across that may serve the purpose:

• Syntax Highlighter Evolved
• Syntax Highlighter MT
• WP Prism Syntax Highlighter
• Enlighter

Unstopped

Example link is broken. – Greenhead

Crayon Syntax Highlighter it's work for me – Emmalineemmalyn

Answer 4

There's a <code> html element you can use. Otherwise you could try the Textile or Markdown syntaxes (I'm not sure if WordPress.com uses them). Try it out and use the preview function in WordPress to see when you get it right.

Farver

XML code strings have to be escaped when using <code> html element: #5963137 – Margemargeaux

Answer 5

With my Wordpress.org installation, I couldn't get the Accepted Answer here to work (not sure if that's only expected to work with Wordpress.com?)...

I ended up using the SyntaxHighlighter plugin instead.

With that plugin, at first, your code will appear escaped in 'Preview Changes' view: It will appear correctly then after publishing. I think thereafter publishing it will then appear correctly in 'Preview Changes' (not 100% about that).

Margemargeaux

Answer 6

If you are hosting your own wordpress blog opposed to on WP.com you can get this functionality by installing this plugin, since it is the same plugin that the WP.com code relies on.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-syntax-highlighter/

Caphaitien