Google Code Prettify for wordpress

This small wordpress plugin enable syntax highlighting of code snippets in your post using Google Code Prettify.

Notice: you will need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser for this to work.

I had developed another Source Code syntax highlighting plugin using Geshi before,but they are totally different things.with Geshi,code is parsed on the server side,no javascript is needed.

It’s hard to say which is the better,choose one based on your own needs.

Download Google Code Prettify for wordpress v1.1

Installation

This plugin requires WordPress v.2.0 or later.

1. unzip and upload the files to your wp-content/plugins/ directory.
2. Activate the plugin by logging into your WordPress administration panel, going to ‘Plugins’, then clicking the  ‘Activate’  button for  ‘Google Code Prettify’.
3. Done,enjoy it.

Usage

Put code snippets in <pre class="prettyprint">…</pre> or <code class="prettyprint">…</code> and it will automatically be pretty printed.

Example

Bash

#!/bin/bash

# Fibonacci numbers
# Writes an infinite series to stdout, one entry per line
function fib() {
  local a=1
  local b=1
  while true ; do
    echo $a
    local tmp=$a
    a=$(( $a + $b ))
    b=$tmp
  done
}

# output the 10th element of the series and halt
fib | head -10 | tail -1

More examples

FAQ (from http://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/)

1. Which languages does it work for?
   The comments in prettify.js are authoritative but the lexer should work on a number of languages including C and friends, Java, Python, Bash, SQL, HTML, XML, CSS, Javascript, and Makefiles. It works passably on Ruby, PHP and Awk and a decent subset of Perl, but, because of commenting conventions, doesn’t work on Smalltalk, Lisp-like, or CAML-like languages.
2. How do I specify which language my code is in?
   There’s no way to tell it which language because would complicate the interface. If it doesn’t guess the language properly, that’s a bug.
3. Which browsers does it work with?
   It’s been tested with IE 6, Firefox 1.5 & 2, and Safari 2.0.4. Look at the test page to see if it works in your browser.

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TAGS: code-snippets, google, plugin, project, source-code, syntax-highlighting, wordpress

Posted on April 28th, 2007 in wordpress