Syntax Highlighting with Wordpress

No programming blog is complete without decent syntax highlighting so it seemed reasonable to expect there to already be a good plug-in available to provide the functionality I need. Sure enough, a quick search resulted in finding WP-Syntax. The plug-in is based on GeSHi which started as the syntax highlighter for phpBB and is now a fully independent project with support for most major languages.

As a demonstration (and a test) here’s some PHP:

public class Foo {
   public function __construct($bar) {
      echo 'Hello World!';
   {
}

and some CSS (with line numbers):

1
2
3
4

   .foo {
      color: #FFFFFF;
      height: 100px;
   }

I think that’s enough of a demonstration and promotion of the previously mentioned projects but expect to see some code related posts in the not-to-distant future.