My Favorite WordPress Code Highlighter Plugin

Posted on July 8th, 2010 webmaster No comments          Print

If you’re wondering what I used for the code highlighter in my previous post, it’s the SyntaxHighlighter Evolved plugin.  It’s just like the Google Syntax Highlighter plugin but much easier to use.  I’ve tried a bunch of other ones such as the WP Advanced Code Editor, Developer Formatter, and WP-Codebox and this one is the best in my opinion.

To use it you just put your code between these tags: “[language] …code goes here… [/language]” where “language” is the programming language (i.e. python, java, sql, etc.).

Here are some examples of what the code would look like:

Python

import shutil

class Copy:
    '''
    Copy files.
    '''

    def __init__(self):
        '''
        Nothing to see here.
        '''

    def copyFile(self, src, dst):
        shutil.copy2(src, dst)
        print "I don't know why I'm printing this."

SQL

SELECT * FROM cool_websites
WHERE domain = 'calazan.com'
AND ranking IS NOT NULL

Java

public class HelloVisitors {

	public static void main(String[] args) {
		// Just saying hello
		System.out.println("Hello visitors!");
	}
}