SyHi

In WordPress

Minimalistic Syntax Highlighter plug-in for WordPress which also makes sure code can still be copied and pasted into your favourite compiler! This plug-in is totally designed for developers. You know, that sort of people who post code snippets in their blog regularly and hardly use the Visual Editor, because they write the HTML themselves. But they don't like WordPress messing with their quotes and dashes, so this plug-in makes sure no one touches one of their lovingly crafted lines of code. It's also very minimalistic - less than 10k, not counting the GeSHi library which is also included. In addition, it's also lazy. It will try to avoid doing as much work as possible. That is good, because it will not eat resources like other plug-ins out there. Download You can install SyHi from within your blog plugins admin page. Search for SyHi! Or you can also download a zip file from the plug-in page at the Plugins directory/ How to use it Whenever you want to post some syntax highlighted code, surround it with <code lang="language"></code>. That's it. Example: <code lang="php"> class HelloWorld() { public function __construct() { echo "This is an unnecessarily long version of Hello World"; } } </code> gets you class HelloWorld() { public function __construct() { echo "This is an unnecessarily long version of Hello World"; } } The 'lang' attribute can be entirely omitted. You will get whitespace, quotes and dashes preservation... but no highlighting. When entering the `lang` attribute in the code blocks, make sure the value you enter is exactly one of the languages in the list below, or the highlighting will resort to a simple preformatted text. Notes php5 and WP2.8.5 or higher are required. The plug-in has not been tested with older configurations. Be warned: there isn't any options page (yet!). The plug-in can simply be activated or deactivated. This plug-in can beautify snippets in pretty much every programming language you can think of, thanks to the huge language support provided by GeSHi (the highlighting library). Syntax files are in libs/geshi/. Currently supported languages: 4cs, 6502acme, 6502kickass, 6502tasm, 68000devpac, abap, actionscript, actionscript3, ada, algol68, apache, applescript, apt sources, asm, asp, autoconf, autohotkey, autoit, avisynth, awk, bash, basic4gl, bf, bibtex, blitzbasic, bnf, boo, c, caddcl, cadlisp, cfdg, cfm, chaiscript, cil, clojure, c_mac, cmake, cobol, cpp, cpp-qt, csharp, css, cuesheet, d, dcs, delphi, diff, div, dos, dot, e, eiffel, email, erlang, f1, fo, fortran, freebasic, fsharp, gambas, gdb, genero, genie, gettext, glsl, gml, gnuplot, go, groovy, gwbasic, haskell, hicest, hq9plus, html4strict, icon, idl, ini, inno, intercal, io, j, java, java5, javascript, kixtart, klonec, klonecpp, latex, lb, lisp, locobasic, logtalk, lolcode, lotusformulas, lotusscript, lscript, lsl2, lua, m68k, magiksf, make, mapbasic, matlab, mirc, mmix, modula2, modula3, mpasm, mxml, mysql, newlisp, nsis, oberon2, objc, objeck, ocaml, ocaml-brief, oobas, oracle8, oracle11, oxygene, oz, pascal, pcre, per, perl, perl6, pf, php, php-brief, pic16, pike, pixelbender, plsql, postgresql, povray, powerbuilder, powershell, progress, prolog, properties, providex, purebasic, python, q, qbasic, rails, rebol, reg, robots, rpmspec, rsplus, ruby, sas, scala, scheme, scilab, sdlbasic, smalltalk, smarty, sql, systemverilog, tcl, teraterm, text, thinbasic, tsql, typoscript, unicon, vala, vb, vbnet, verilog, vhdl, vim, visualfoxpro, visualprolog, whitespace, whois, winbatch, xbasic, xml, xorg_conf, xpp, z80, zxbasic. If you require syntax highlighting for a language which is not in this list, you'll have to develop your own syntax file and place it in the libs/geshi folder. What about submitting it to GeSHi when you're done? :-) Known issues You can't place code blocks inside a code block If you switch to the Visual Editor while editing a post, it will mess with any code tags. The results will make you cry. To do Add options for... ... configuring if you want to use my css sheet, your css sheet, both, or no one at all ... configuring if you want to use GeSHi, or are happy with just plain preformatted text ... configuring if you want to allow commenters to post syntax highlighted code snippets

Minimalistic Syntax Highlighter plug-in for WordPress which also makes sure code can still be copied and pasted into your favourite compiler!

This plug-in is totally designed for developers.

You know, that sort of people who post code snippets in their blog regularly and hardly use the Visual Editor, because they write the HTML themselves. But they don’t like WordPress messing with their quotes and dashes, so this plug-in makes sure no one touches one of their lovingly crafted lines of code.

It’s also very minimalistic – less than 10k, not counting the GeSHi library which is also included.

In addition, it’s also lazy. It will try to avoid doing as much work as possible. That is good, because it will not eat resources like other plug-ins out there.

Download

You can install SyHi from within your blog plugins admin page. Search for SyHi! Or you can also download a zip file from the plug-in page at the Plugins directory/

How to use it

Whenever you want to post some syntax highlighted code, surround it with <code lang=”language”></code>. That’s it.

Example:

<code lang="php">
class HelloWorld()
{
	public function __construct()
	{
		echo "This is an unnecessarily long version of Hello World";
	}
}
</code>

gets you

class HelloWorld()

{

        public function __construct()

        {

                echo "This is an unnecessarily long version of Hello World";

        }

}

The ‘lang’ attribute can be entirely omitted. You will get whitespace, quotes and dashes preservation… but no highlighting.

When entering the `lang` attribute in the code blocks, make sure the value you enter is exactly one of the languages in the list below, or the highlighting will resort to a simple preformatted text.

Notes

php5 and WP2.8.5 or higher are required. The plug-in has not been tested with older configurations.
Be warned: there isn’t any options page (yet!). The plug-in can simply be activated or deactivated.
This plug-in can beautify snippets in pretty much every programming language you can think of, thanks to the huge language support provided by GeSHi (the highlighting library).
- Syntax files are in libs/geshi/.
- Currently supported languages: 4cs, 6502acme, 6502kickass, 6502tasm, 68000devpac, abap, actionscript, actionscript3, ada, algol68, apache, applescript, apt sources, asm, asp, autoconf, autohotkey, autoit, avisynth, awk, bash, basic4gl, bf, bibtex, blitzbasic, bnf, boo, c, caddcl, cadlisp, cfdg, cfm, chaiscript, cil, clojure, c_mac, cmake, cobol, cpp, cpp-qt, csharp, css, cuesheet, d, dcs, delphi, diff, div, dos, dot, e, eiffel, email, erlang, f1, fo, fortran, freebasic, fsharp, gambas, gdb, genero, genie, gettext, glsl, gml, gnuplot, go, groovy, gwbasic, haskell, hicest, hq9plus, html4strict, icon, idl, ini, inno, intercal, io, j, java, java5, javascript, kixtart, klonec, klonecpp, latex, lb, lisp, locobasic, logtalk, lolcode, lotusformulas, lotusscript, lscript, lsl2, lua, m68k, magiksf, make, mapbasic, matlab, mirc, mmix, modula2, modula3, mpasm, mxml, mysql, newlisp, nsis, oberon2, objc, objeck, ocaml, ocaml-brief, oobas, oracle8, oracle11, oxygene, oz, pascal, pcre, per, perl, perl6, pf, php, php-brief, pic16, pike, pixelbender, plsql, postgresql, povray, powerbuilder, powershell, progress, prolog, properties, providex, purebasic, python, q, qbasic, rails, rebol, reg, robots, rpmspec, rsplus, ruby, sas, scala, scheme, scilab, sdlbasic, smalltalk, smarty, sql, systemverilog, tcl, teraterm, text, thinbasic, tsql, typoscript, unicon, vala, vb, vbnet, verilog, vhdl, vim, visualfoxpro, visualprolog, whitespace, whois, winbatch, xbasic, xml, xorg_conf, xpp, z80, zxbasic.
- If you require syntax highlighting for a language which is not in this list, you’ll have to develop your own syntax file and place it in the libs/geshi folder. What about submitting it to GeSHi when you’re done? :-)

Known issues

You can’t place code blocks inside a code block
If you switch to the Visual Editor while editing a post, it will mess with any code tags. The results will make you cry.

To do

Add options for…

… configuring if you want to use my css sheet, your css sheet, both, or no one at all
… configuring if you want to use GeSHi, or are happy with just plain preformatted text
… configuring if you want to allow commenters to post syntax highlighted code snippets

Comments

Ryan

20091205

Thank you so much for building this plugin. I’m starting a Flash blog and have been looking for a simple way to input code snippets all night. Of the 4 plugins I installed, this is the only one that actually got the job done.

Thanks again,
Ryan
sole

20091205

Thanks for the comments! I really love to hear it’s useful for more people. I’m also a little flattered to hear it’s the only one of 4 which got the job done. Please let me know if you would like to have any extra feature.
code_tin

20100130

Hello,I have used your plugins and love it,I hope the SyHI will be perfect.I will be glade to see when it have the feature of line number. it will be very helpful.
Thanks again!!!
sole

20100202

Thanks for the praise. But I don’t know where did you read it’s going to have line numbers… it’s highly unlikely that I will add support for line numbers, I think. This is short code snippets we’re talking about, not full programs.

Still, I’ll have a look and think about that :)
Paul Allsopp

20100510

Hi Sole,

Thanks for this plugin, it’s great.
I also would be interested in line numbers. Although it is just for snippets, it would be nice to add some code and say “On line 5 you can see..” etc

That way there isn’t the need to add the comments to the snippet.

Thanks again.
Paul
sole

20100510

Hi Paul, glad you like it :-)

The line numbers makes sense in that context… I was working on a stand-alone version of SyHi –for people not using WordPress but wanting to syntax highlight text in their CMS’s or php-based systems– and did some improvements on the WordPress version, so I might add that option as well while I am on it.

If you have the plug-in installed you should get an update when the new version is released :-)
Nail

20100613

I installed the plugin and add the code you mentioned while adding codes into the posts but it doesn’t work.
sole

20100613

“It doesn’t work” is just too vague a description for me to help you. What does it do exactly? Does it show anything? Does it break in the middle of your posts? Have you activated the plug-in? How do you expect me to help you if you don’t help me first?

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