Including formatted sourcecode in WordPress
Posted by jpluimers on 2009/04/22
Since I’m quite new to WordPress it is a learn as-I-go process (sounds familiar huh?) and a major goal of this blog is to keep track of things so that I don’t forget them:
Including formatted code in your blog is easy, WordPress has a FAQ about it!
Basically it comes down to adding the sourcecode shortcode and then make sure the language attribute has the right value.
But there are some gotcha’s that are not in the FAQ:
- paste the
sourcecodeshortcode as “plain text” (or in the HTML editor) otherwise it will get span tags around it and not render as code - C# has
languagecodecsharp(if you use a non-existing language code, it will not render as code either)
The language codes I will probably use most are csharp and delphi, followed by xml and sql and maybe some css and html.
In your editor, you will then see something like this:
[sourcecode language='csharp'] using System; namespace bo.hi { class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { Console.WriteLine("Hello World!"); } } } [/sourcecode]
which will then be rendered in your reader’s browser like this:
using System;
namespace bo.hi
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
Console.WriteLine("Hello World!");
}
}
}
And the list of valid language codes:
- cpp
- csharp
- css
- delphi
- html
- java
- jscript
- php
- python
- ruby
- sql
- vb
- xml
The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 
kristobaldude said
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jpluimers said
Thanks!
kristobaldude said
No problem brother. It was a very good technical article and how-to involving tags.
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