Another UPDATE
This post is outdated. I am now using ‘Crayon Syntax Highligther’ instead of ‘Syntax Highlighter Evolved’. I had to update the code samples on this page accordingly, so reading this post might lead to confusion.
UPDATE
There is a newer version of the plugin that I wrote about in this post. It’s functionality is available by default to wordpress.com users. The new plugin is called SyntaxHighlighter Evolved.
SyntaxHighlighter Evolved is compatible with Syntax HighLighter for WordPress, my blog uses SyntaxHighlighter Evolved now. Everything in this post also applies to SyntaxHighlighter Evolved.
I would like to know what happens if I enter some php code. Does the syntax get highlighted by default in WordPress? Is it going to be stripped out? Will it be forbidden? Let me just type “echo ‘Hello World!'” and see what happens:
<?php echo ‘Hello World’; ?>
I expect this to show up just as I typed it, nothing special.
Now let me type it into the html editor, and see what I get then:
(You see nothing here, but on the backend, in the editor there is a hidden html comment that contains the php code. On the front-end, without the editor, the comment gets stripped out completely) Continue reading “Enabling syntax highlighting”