Top 5 WordPress plugins for displaying codes in a blog post

nserting codes into your blog needn’t be a drag anymore. With these easy to use, simple WordPress plugins, you’re all set to insert code in your blog.

1 .Google Syntax Highlighter

This plugin makes it easy to highlight codes within your WordPress blog very easy. It supports almost each and every language out there.

For example, it supports CSS, PHP, HTML, JAVASCRIPT, C++, PYTHON, Ruby, SQL, VB,Etc.

Some of it’s featuers,

• 100% client side functionality
• No server dependency at all
• Supports almost every other language
• Browser compatiaibility isn’t a problem at all!
• Very lightweight
• Use low resources
• Awesomely fast!

2. SyntaxHighlighter Evolved

Using this plugin, you can easily post syntax-highlighted code to your website, without needing to edit your code. You can see the effect of this plugin on WordPress.com. Best of all, when you use SyntaxHighlighter Evolved to post syntax-highlighted code to your site, you won’t be losing your site’s formatting. You also won’t need to incorporate any manual changes as the plugin does everything for you. The SyntaxHighlighter plugin manages its tasks without upsetting your neat website using the tightly coded SyntaxHighlighter JavaScript package by Alex Gorbatchev. This plugin supports most widely used languages. For a full list, we suggest you see the WordPress.com support document for this plugin.

3. Sniplets WP Plugin

This plug allows you to make generic text insertion. The plugin supports an extensible processing framework, allowing you to replace post text defined somewhere else or created using a different program. You can use Sniplets WP plugin to highlight syntax in files, run custom PHP code, and insert data from a database and so on. The Sniplets plugin is compatible with WordPress version 2.7 and below.

4. JQuery Highlighter

jQuery.Syntax is an extremely fast and lightweight syntax highlighter. It has feature like dynamic loading, highlighting on the go and on access highlighting.

It provides syntax highlighting using jQuery.Syntax. It supports a wide variety of languages that make work easier for you helping you use just one plugin! This plugin converts the necessary code automatically without you having to do anything more! You just have to add the code and everything else is handled by the plugin!

5.Ultimate Syntax Highlighter

It has similar features to that of Google Syntax Highlighter, just it supports a lot more languages and has a different name!

Here are a few languages it supports,

• C++ (cpp, c, c++)
• C# (c#, c-sharp, csharp)
• CSS (css)
• Delphi (delphi, pascal)
• Java (java)
• Java Script (js, jscript, javascript)
• PHP (php)
• Python (py, python)
• Ruby (rb, ruby, rails, ror)
• Sql (sql)
• VB (vb, vb.net)
• XML/HTML (xml, html, xhtml, xslt)