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Retrieves your public Gists and displays them in an ordered list.
Features include:
<ul>
<li>Item count.</li>
<li>Length of description.</li>
<li>Show comment count.</li>
<li>Show creation date.</li>
<li>Show mimetype icons.</li>
</ul>
Supported mimetypes:
<ul>
<li>C++</li>
<li>C</li>
<li>C#</li>
<li>ColdFusion</li>
<li>CSS</li>
<li>HTML</li>
<li>Java</li>
<li>JavaScript</li>
<li>Lua</li>
<li>PHP</li>
<li>Python</li>
<li>Ruby</li>
<li>SQL</li>
<li>TeX</li>
<li>XML</li>
</ul>

Better Github Gists Widget

A highly configurable github gists widget.

AJ Troxell

Three ways are provided to insert the shortcode. The value “xxxxxx” represents your Gist ID, and “name” is the filename of the file within the Gist.
<ul>
<li>Insert [gist id=”xxxxxx” file=”name”] manually.</li>
<li>By using the HTML Editor shortcode button.</li>
<li>By pressing ctrl+alt+g. *You can place these shortcodes in pages, posts or any custom content.</li>
</ul>

GitHub Gist Files Shortcode

A Wordpress plugin which will insert a specific file from a Gist using the shortcode [gist id="xxxxxx" file="name"].

Better Github Gists Widget vs GitHub Gist Files Shortcode