SyntaxHighlighter Plus

Over the weekend I went looking for a code plugin for WordPress. I came across SyntaxHighlighter Plus which has a pretty impressive list of formats it supports. I’ll probably mainly use XHTML, XML and CSS. Hopefully the HTML format will suffice for any ColdFusion code I post.

After you have installed and activated the plugin, all you need to do is wrap the code you want formatted with [sourcecode language='blah'] insert code here [/sourcecode] where blah is the language you have written.

The languages supported are:

• Bash — bash, sh
• C++ — cpp, c, c++
• C# — c#, c-sharp, csharp
• CSS — css
• Delphi — delphi, pascal
• Java — java
• JavaScript — js, jscript, javascript
• PHP — php
• Python — py, python
• Ruby — rb, ruby, rails, ror
• SQL — sql
• VB — vb, vb.net
• XML/HTML — xml, html, xhtml, xslt

By default the CSS for the formatted code is quite bright/light, so I jumped into the CSS and customised it so that it fit better with the overall site.

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