Comments on: Formatting Sample Code Snippets in WordPress

By: jon web

jon web — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 13:52:20 +0000

I agree with you that on some sites syntax coloring looks out of place. I have also been looking at SyntaxHighlighter Plus recently but not finding it as easy as i i first thought. can you recommend a good tutorial?

By: Harveen

Harveen — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:29:10 +0000

I agree with you that on some sites syntax coloring looks out of place. sill i am new to this donot have much experience on this topic..I use wp-syntax plugin myself and just like you said, it adds a lot of inline styles to the code snippet.

By: Ronnie T. Dodger

Ronnie T. Dodger — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 20:24:33 +0000

@Harveen – There are tutorials all over the web. I do not have any here, yet.

You can also dig thru the WordPress Codex, too.

By: Harveen

Harveen — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 19:59:10 +0000

I have very less knowledge about editing the plugins. Learning from some tutorials. I’ll post some comments once i learn it in a better way. Is there any tutorials available for installation?

By: Ronnie T. Dodger

Ronnie T. Dodger — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 19:12:54 +0000

I have been looking at SyntaxHighlighter Plus lately. This syntax highlighter uses javascript to do the dirty work, thereby leaving the code preserved as written in the Html. The highlighter comes with Css stylesheets, so appears to be easily modified.

By: Ronnie T. Dodger

Ronnie T. Dodger — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 19:05:17 +0000

It uses GeSHi and I think you can customize the syntax coloring, but it is tough. There is a file for filtering php text (and others) in the component directory. Look for the styles array near the end of that file.

By: Arnas

Arnas — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 01:14:16 +0000

I agree with you that on some sites syntax coloring looks out of place. I use wp-syntax plugin myself and just like you said, it adds a lot of inline styles to the code snippet. According to plugin notes – “It also uses inline styling to make sure that code highlights still work in RSS feeds”. I was wondering if you know about any syntax highlighting plugins that let you change code colors?

By: Ronnie T. Dodger

Ronnie T. Dodger — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 18:38:55 +0000

The plugin works in comments (as above).

Sadly, my CSS for the comment area needs a little work and it shows.

By: Ronnie T. Dodger

Ronnie T. Dodger — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 18:37:41 +0000

   
      Testing the plugin for code formatting in comments.