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The Code Snippet Plugin, my favourite syntax highlighter plugin for WordPress

Posted by Daniel - 5,851 Views

There is no doubt that I need a WordPress plugin to highlight my code examples for this blog. It’s a requirement since I publish many programming code example within this blog. I had tried some of them, mostly from the WordPress plugin repository. All of them are relatively good but if I ask myself which one is my favorite I choose CodeSnippet Plugin. Why? Most of the syntax highlight plugins I had tested did not perfectly display their formatted code with my current theme, while CodeSnippet does, it’s perfectly blend with my theme. I guess the first good impression what makes me choose to use the CodeSnippet but please remember that this is my opinion only, some of you may think that my opinion is not correct.

CodeSnippet Plugin is a code highlighter plugin powered by the GeSHi engine. A large number of languages are supported and it can be easily extended. These are the supported languages mentioned on its readme file:

actionscript-french, actionscript, ada, apache, applescript, asm, asp, bash, caddcl, cadlisp, c_mac, c, cpp, csharp, css-gen, css, delphi, diff, div, dos, d, eiffel, freebasic, gml, html4strict, ini, inno, java, javascript, lisp, lua, matlab, mpasm, nsis, objc, oobas, oracle8, pascal, perl, php-brief, php, python, qbasic, sdlbasic, smarty, sql, vbnet, vb, vhdl, visualfoxpro, xml.

To use CodeSnippet within your post all you need to do is to put your code between its formatting tag. The example opening tag is [ code lang=”php” ] and the closing tag is [ /code ].

Following is an example of c code formatted with the plugin:

CodeSnippet is class based so you can use it anywhere you want by creating the instance of the class. You can find the example here.

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