Gilbert Pellegrom

Prism is a new lightweight, extensible syntax highlighter, built with modern web standards in mind, by 
<a href="http://lea.verou.me" rel="nofollow ugc">Lea Verou</a>. This is a WordPress plugin to make it super simple to use Prism on your 
WordPress site.
Features include:
<ul>
<li>Easy setup (install and activate the plugin and Prism is already working)</li>
<li>Settings page with Theme chooser</li>
<li>Enable/disable Prism plugins as required (all from the settings page)</li>
</ul>
For more info on the Prism plugin see the <a href="http://prismjs.com" rel="nofollow ugc">official site</a>.

Prism Syntax Highlighter

Prism is a new lightweight, extensible syntax highlighter, built with modern web standards in mind, by

dwhitevisoft

WP Markdown Syntax Sugar work in conjunction with plugins such as <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-markdown/" rel="ugc">wp-markdown</a> 
and <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-highlightjs/" rel="ugc">wp-highlight.js</a>. Markdown is fantastic markup for easily 
writing blogs, and <a href="http://softwaremaniacs.org/soft/highlight/en/" rel="nofollow ugc">highlight.js</a> is an extremely easy way to highlight 
code examples. In most cases, highlight.js automatically detects the proper language for a block of code. In certain 
cases, primarily if your code example is short, highlight.js could improperly detect the language that you are using; 
that is where this plugin comes into play. By adding one line to your code blocks, you can explicitly set the language 
that you are using, allowing highlight.js to properly format your code.
The concept is inspired by the <a href="https://github.com/spjwebster/wp-markdown-syntax-highlight" rel="nofollow ugc">wp-markdown-syntax-highlight</a> 
plugin.
The usage is extremely simple. Just add a shebang as the first line of your code example with the language you are using.
<pre><code>#!ruby
class Foo < Bar
 def hello
 puts "Hello World!"
 end
end
</code></pre>
The shebang is removed, and the code is outputted as:
<pre><code><pre><code class="language-ruby">class Foo < Bar
 def hello
 puts "Hello World!"
 end
end</code></pre>
</code></pre>
Now the code block is properly formatted for highlight.js to do its magic, and the code snippet will be properly 
highlighted.

WP-Markdown-Syntax-Sugar

WP Markdown Syntax Sugar is a simple plugin that works in conjunction with Markdown code blocks and highlight.js to properly format code.

Prism Syntax Highlighter vs WP-Markdown-Syntax-Sugar