Comments on: The Definitive Guide on Wordpress Syntax Highligher Plugins

By: Blaine Garrett

Blaine Garrett — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 02:16:02 +0000

Thanks for posting this! I was trying to figure out which plugin I used to use before I lost it in an upgrade. All I knew was that it used the [sourcecode][/sourcecode] tags. Few of the plugins actually listed which tags they used. So this was a huge help!

By: Just testing out a plugin… « Sacha Sayan

Just testing out a plugin… « Sacha Sayan — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 10:37:24 +0000

[...] a side note, this article from Chris Cagle is an excellent no-nonsense overview of all the best syntax highlighters for Wordpress. Nice [...]

By: Jouni

Jouni — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 21:58:58 +0000

Thanks for the great insightful article Chris!

I chose the “SyntaxHighlighter Plus” plugin thanks to this article.

I also blogged about the plugin (and this article) in Finnish language: http://mutaati0.com/wordpress-plugini-syntaxhighlighter-plus (it contains a link back to this article)

By: leenoux

leenoux — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:50:31 +0000

hi, thanks for the review.
i’m using fckeditor + syntaxhighlighter evolved.i have a problem ,when i switch from source editing mode to visual mode in fckeditor an then back to source mode, fckeditor always messing my code with html tag in syntaxhighlighter tag

example

[lang]
my code
my code
[/lang]

[lang]
my code

my code

[/lang]

anyone have idea how to escape/prevent fckeditor altering my source code?

thanks

By: Abel Braaksma

Abel Braaksma — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:22:17 +0000

Update: the fix I present on my site (see prev. post) is still available, but Viper has included the fix in his new version. I’ll leave the fix online for people using older versions not wanting to upgrade for one or the other reason.

By: Abel Braaksma

Abel Braaksma — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:26:42 +0000

Your original list brought me to test the top 3 after which I decided to go for SyntaxHighlighter Plus. I was never really pleased with the rather clumsy way of dealing with the use of shortcodes [tag]code here[/tag]. Only very recently I found out that there’s been a major overhaul of the code by Viper007 and he has renamed it to SyntaxHighlighter Evolved: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/syntaxhighlighter/. Consider that upload instead of the one you currently link to in your post above.

The Evolved version fixes several bugs, but its best change is that you do not need to worry about adding pre-tags around your code anymore. And when you switch from HTML to Display mode, they’re not all of a sudden inserted either. It is now clean and simple: just type [lang-tag]your code[/lang-tag] and the new Evolved plugin takes care of the rest.

One new bug annoyed be and almost stopped me from using it: leading whitespace is badly preserved. I fixed that. Anyone in need of this fix can download it here: http://www.undermyhat.org/blog/2009/07/fix-for-leading-whitespace-bug-in-syntaxhighlighter-evolved-for-wordpress/

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Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:05:47 +0000

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By: BreakPoint » Collapse/expand syntax highlighted block

BreakPoint » Collapse/expand syntax highlighted block — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:20:05 +0000

[...] plugin. Of course there are others as well, varying in features and resources used, here is a little survey of what is avialable. Comments [...]

By: George

George — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 18:27:08 +0000

http://www.neathighlighter.com is a very nice code highlighter which highlights code in standard colors and has the ability to highlight code which is mixture of different languages

By: Pali Madra

Pali Madra — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 06:19:52 +0000

Mark,

First of all a good review and thank you for putting in the hard work.

I’m just curious as to how much time it took to gather the data you have presented. To me it seems a lot of hard work.

I have a couple of questions and please excuse if they seem dumb

The first was when was this post written. Is the post up to date meaning as of today do the reviews stand good?

I did not understand the scoring initially. From the comments I could make out that you recommend Syntax Highlighter Plus and the least recommended plugin is Code Colorer. I was confused because you scored Code Colorer 8/8 and Syntax Highlighter Plus as 1/8 so I assumed the one with the least marks was least recommended which is not the case, correct?

Once again thanks for research and the good post.