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<p><em>Easy WP LaTeX</em> provides a very easy way to display equations or mathematical formulas  (typed in as TeX or LaTeX code) in your posts. It lets you customize colors and sizes of your equations to match your blog theme.</p>
<h4>Live Demo</h4>
<p><strong>If you would like to see this plugin action, visit <a href="http://www.thulasidas.com/of-rotation-lt-and-acceleration/2/" title="On Rotation and Lorentz Transformation" rel="nofollow ugc">this physics post</a>. You can even play with its admin interface at the <a href="http://demo.thulasidas.com/easy-latex" title="Play with Easy WP LaTeX Admin Interface" rel="nofollow ugc">live demo site</a>.</strong></p>
<p>Most LaTeX/equation plugins I have seen suffer from a few drawbacks.</p>
<ol>
<li>They require installations of TeX or other packages on your server.</li>
<li>They are fairly inflexible in terms of colors of text and background.</li>
<li>Each time you switch your theme, you have to re-configure your color scheme.</li>
<li>They may not let you choose how to input LaTeX code. ([math]…[/math] or $$…$$) without editing the plugin code.</li>
</ol>
<p>My plugin aims to be flexible, and easy to install (no geeky code editing etc.). It is now available in your own language using machine translation curtsey of Google and Microsoft.</p>
<h4>Pro Version</h4>
<p>This release is the freely distributed version of <em>Easy WP LaTeX</em>. It is fully functional. But the <strong><a href="http://buy.thulasidas.com/easy-latex" title="Pro version of the Easy WP LaTeX plugin for only $4.95" rel="nofollow ugc">Pro Version</a></strong> gives you more features and benefits.</p>
<ol>
<li>In the Pro version, the plugin caches the formula images so that your pages load faster.</li>
<li>You also get an option to align the formula image with respect to the text around it by tweaking the vertical alignment of your equations.</li>
<li>Option to store the images in the database using WP transients API for potentially faster page loads.</li>
</ol>
<p>New features and bug fixes will first appear in the Pro version before being ported to this freely distributed edition.</p>
<h4>Alternatives</h4>
<ol>
<li><em>Latex for WordPess</em> by zhiqiang, on which this plugin is based, has caching and JS based image generation. But it lacks intuitive color matching and theme-dependent settings.</li>
<li><em>JetPack</em> also lets you insert LaTeX formulas, again color matching is not easy.</li>
</ol>
<h3>Credit</h3>
<ul>
<li><em>Easy WP LaTeX</em> uses the excellent Javascript color picker by [Javascript Color Picker] (http://jscolor.com “Javascript Color Picker”).</li>
</ul>


Easy WP LaTeX

Easy WP LaTeX provides a very easy way to display math and equations in your posts using LaTeX. Lets you customize colors and sizes of your equations.

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Paul Schreiber

Jared Wenerd

<p>MathJax enables enables rendering of embedded LaTeX or MathML in HTML pages. This plugin adds this functionality to WordPress. The MathJax JavaScript is inject on-demand only to those pages which require it. This ensures that MathJax is not loaded for all pages, which will otherwise slow loading down.</p>
<p>The MathJax JavaScript can be delivered from your own server, or you can use the Cloudflare Content Distribution Network (CDN), which is the preferred mechanism as it offers increased speed and stability over hosting the JavaScript and configuring the library yourself.</p>
<p>You may embed latex using a variety of different syntaxes. The shortcode (https://codex.wordpress.org/Shortcode_API) syntax is preferred. So <code>[latex]E=mc^2[/latex]</code> will work out of the box. This also forces loading of MathJax.</p>
<p>Additionally, you can use native MathJax syntax — <code>$$E=mc^2$$</code> or <code>$E=mc^2$</code>. However, if this is the only syntax used, the plugin must be explicitly told to load MathJax for the current page. This can be achieved by adding a <code>[mathjax]</code> shortcode anywhere in the post. For posts with both <code>[latex]</code>x<code>[/latex]</code> and <code>$$x$$</code> syntaxes this is unnecessary.</p>
<p>You can use wp-latex syntax, <code>$latex E=mc^2$</code>. Parameters can be specified as with wp-latex but will be ignored. This means that MathJax-LaTeX should be a drop-in replacement for wp-latex. Because this conflicts with wp-latex, this behaviour is blocked when wp-latex is present, and must be explicitly enabled in the settings.</p>
<p>You can also specify <code>[nomathjax]</code> — this will block mathjax on the current page, regardless of other tags.</p>
<p>MathJax-LaTeX is developed on <a href="https://github.com/phillord/mathjax-latex" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a>.</p>
<h3>Copyright</h3>
<p>This plugin is copyright Phillip Lord, Newcastle University and is licensed under GPLv2.</p>


MathJax-LaTeX

This plugin enables MathJax (http://www.mathjax.org) functionality for WordPress (http://www.wordpress.org).

Easy WP LaTeX vs MathJax-LaTeX