Pedro Elsner

<p>Drop in the embed code from github between the gist shortcode.</p>
<pre><code>[gist]<script src="http://gist.github.com/447298.js?file=github_gist_wordpress_plugin_test.txt"></script>[/gist]
</code></pre>
<p>or pass the ID and file (optional)</p>
<pre><code>[gist id=447298 file=github_gist_wordpress_plugin_test.txt]
</code></pre>


Gist for Robots WordPress Plugin

Makes embedding Github.com gists SEO friendly and super awesomely easy.

dflydev

<p>This project is available for forking on GitHub:</p>
<ul>
<li>https://github.com/dflydev/embed-github-gist</li>
</ul>
<p>Embed <a href="http://github.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a> <a href="http://gist.github.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Gists</a> into<br />
WordPress. Provides a shortcode for posts and pages but also has the ability<br />
to embed by hand in the event that a Gist needs to be embedded somewhere in<br />
the page that does not pass through the shortcode filters.</p>
<p>Examples:</p>
<pre><code>[gist id=546764]
[gist id=546764 file=file.txt]
[gist id=546764 file=file.txt bump=1]
[gist]http://gist.github.com/546764[/gist]
</code></pre>
<p>Cache is implemented with the Transients API to minimize delay on loading<br />
content. Default TTL (time to live) is 86400 seconds or one day.</p>
<h4>Upcoming features:</h4>
<ul>
<li>Option for setting default TTL</li>
<li>Option to bypass cache entirely</li>
<li>Implement admin interface to control options</li>
</ul>


Gist for Robots WordPress Plugin vs Embed GitHub Gist