Comments on: The Definitive Guide on WordPress Syntax Highligher Plugins

By: Meshfields Blog » Spice up WordPress cross-domain with Chili

Meshfields Blog » Spice up WordPress cross-domain with Chili — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 01:41:45 +0000

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By: Arian

Arian — Wed, 26 May 2010 18:56:33 +0000

I just tried wp-codebox, but I’m not happy with it. I’ll try your recommendation of Synthax Highlighter Plus, thanks for the post. It was very helpful.

By: Ash Menon

Ash Menon — Tue, 25 May 2010 07:44:38 +0000

*Edit: Sorry Chris, had to double post, your code tag isn’t working.

Chris, I’m having a problem with the syntax highlighters, and I’m hoping maybe you’ve come across something that might help:

when I use any of the highlighters, if I have this code:
[code]

[/code]

it parses and shows fine. But if I double it:
[code]

[/code]

The page fails to save, preview, or do anything. It redirects me to my 404 page. After some experimenting, I found out that it’s a combination of the semicolon and the echo keyword after it, that’s causing this. I tried using a fresh install of WP on the same server, the problem remains. I tried using this plugin on a localhost installation, it works fine. If I deactivate the plugin, the code shows up fine. Not highlighted, of course, but fine. Any ideas?

By: ishank

ishank — Mon, 24 May 2010 15:01:19 +0000

Thanks a lot. I was searching for syntax highlighter. Going to download Syntax Highlighter Plus.

By: Ian

Ian — Sat, 01 May 2010 03:30:49 +0000

Thanks for the great post. Don’t think I’m a fan of Chili though, what is with the yellow popup box when you click on the code? Sometimes it’s even off the screen.

Will have to check out some of the other options soon.

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

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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.