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Easily use highlightjs and line-numbers to syntax-highlighted sample code on your blog posts

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Easily use highlightjs and line-numbers to syntax-highlighted sample code on your blog posts

Fred Wu

SyntaxHighlighter Plus is a WordPress plugin for code syntax highlighting. It is an enhanced version of the original SyntaxHighlighter by Matt, Viper007Bond and mdawaffe. Please give them a big applause for making such a great plugin!
SyntaxHighlighter allows you to easily post syntax highlighted code all without loosing it’s formatting or making an manual changes.
It supports the following languages (the alias for use in the post is listed next to the name):
<ul>
<li>Bash — <code>bash</code>, <code>sh</code></li>
<li>C++ — <code>cpp</code>, <code>c</code>, <code>c++</code></li>
<li>C# — <code>c#</code>, <code>c-sharp</code>, <code>csharp</code></li>
<li>CSS — <code>css</code></li>
<li>Delphi — <code>delphi</code>, <code>pascal</code></li>
<li>Diff — <code>diff</code></li>
<li>Groovy — <code>groovy</code></li>
<li>Java — <code>java</code></li>
<li>JavaScript — <code>js</code>, <code>jscript</code>, <code>javascript</code></li>
<li>Perl — <code>perl</code>, <code>pl</code></li>
<li>PHP — <code>php</code></li>
<li>Plain text — <code>plain</code>, <code>text</code></li>
<li>Python — <code>py</code>, <code>python</code></li>
<li>Ruby — <code>rb</code>, <code>ruby</code>, <code>rails</code>, <code>ror</code></li>
<li>Scala — <code>scala</code></li>
<li>SQL — <code>sql</code></li>
<li>VB — <code>vb</code>, <code>vb.net</code></li>
<li>XML/HTML — <code>xml</code>, <code>html</code>, <code>xhtml</code>, <code>xslt</code></li>
</ul>
This plugin uses the <a href="http://code.google.com/p/syntaxhighlighter/" rel="nofollow ugc">SyntaxHighlighter JavaScript package by Alex Gorbatchev</a>.
<h3>Other BBCode Methods</h3>
Find <code>[sourcecode language='css']code here[/sourcecode]</code> too long to type? Here’s some alternative examples:
<ul>
<li><code>[source language='css']code here[/source]</code></li>
<li><code>[code language='css']code here[/code]</code></li>
<li><code>[sourcecode lang='css']code here[/sourcecode]</code></li>
<li><code>[source lang='css']code here[/source]</code></li>
<li><code>[code lang='css']code here[/code]</code></li>
<li><code>[sourcecode='css']code here[/sourcecode]</code></li>
<li><code>[source='css']code here[/source]</code></li>
<li><code>[code='css']code here[/code]</code></li>
<li><code>[lang='css']code here[/lang]</code></li>
<li><code>[css]code here[/css]</code> (or any of the supported language)</li>
</ul>
Note: Quotation marks around the language can be omitted for even shorter and neater syntax. 🙂

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