Short Syntax Highlighter, WordPress plugin a WordPress plugin

Short Syntax Highlighter is a Plugin for the Plugin website software.

It is intended for nicely-displaying examples of computer-code, within your posts & pages.

There are more than a few such ‘highlighters’ around (they typically color the different ‘syntax’ elements differently, thus ‘highlighting’ them). Why do we see ‘yet another one’? How might this one be of interest?

Starting with somewhat secondary factors, first: this plugin appears to have been produced by the core WordPress shop itself. That makes it important & something to know about (for anybody interested in code-highlighting or plugins to do that, within WordPress), period.

My own interest or hope; the reason I am installing yet-another-highlighter, is that this one might provide relief from some of the drawbacks that arise with other Highlighters. That it will offer a simpler way of doing the job, which will then become standardized (because WordPress itself is behind it).

Here’s the standard blurb on it, from the official WordPress Plugin Repository:

Description

Short Syntax Highlighter allows you to easily post syntax-highlighted code to your site without losing it’s formatting or making any manual changes. Without adding any JS or css file in your theme. This plugin will help you to highlight the code systax. WordPressapi.com

Tested upto 3.0.3

Functionality

This plugin will help you to highlight the code systax.

FYI

Faq

  1. How can I use the this plugin for syntax highlighing Ans: Just put [php]code here[/php] or [css]code here[/css]. Now we supporting only php and css language
  2. Can I change the code color Ans: Yes, you can change the color. using following format . just specify the color value [php wpapi=”php” id=”123″ color=”red”]

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Help

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