I noticed in Ed Stevens’ blog posting here that some sourcecode he’d posted had certain lines highlighted.
Wordpress provides the sourcecode tag for marking up sourcecode in blog posts. For example:
cd /some/random/folder ls -l # do not run this next line!
is much better presented as:
cd /some/random/folder ls -l # do not run this next line!
by wrapping it in
tags
I've known about the language='xx' attribute that you can use with the tag, but Ed's posting prompted me to check on the syntax and it turns out there a few tweaks one can use. Some of them are illustrated below. The list is taken from [Wordpress' Posting Source Code](http://en.support.wordpress.com/code/posting-source-code/) reference page.
## [sourcecode] ....
#REF: http://en.support.wordpress.com/code/posting-source-code/ # # This is some dummy source code to illustrate sourcecode posting on wordpress # Line 2 # Line 3 cd /some/random/folder ls -l # do not run this next line! rm -rf /some
....
#REF: http://en.support.wordpress.com/code/posting-source-code/ # # This is some dummy source code to illustrate sourcecode posting on wordpress # Line 2 # Line 3 cd /some/random/folder ls -l # do not run this next line! rm -rf /some
....
#REF: http://en.support.wordpress.com/code/posting-source-code/ # # This is some dummy source code to illustrate sourcecode posting on wordpress # Line 2 # Line 3 cd /some/random/folder ls -l # do not run this next line! rm -rf /some
....
#REF: http://en.support.wordpress.com/code/posting-source-code/ # # This is some dummy source code to illustrate sourcecode posting on wordpress # Line 2 # Line 3 cd /some/random/folder ls -l # do not run this next line! rm -rf /some
....
#REF: http://en.support.wordpress.com/code/posting-source-code/ # # This is some dummy source code to illustrate sourcecode posting on wordpress # Line 2 # Line 3 cd /some/random/folder ls -l # do not run this next line! rm -rf /some
....
#REF: http://en.support.wordpress.com/code/posting-source-code/ # # This is some dummy source code to illustrate sourcecode posting on wordpress # Line 2 # Line 3 cd /some/random/folder ls -l # do not run this next line! rm -rf /some
....
#REF: http://en.support.wordpress.com/code/posting-source-code/ # # This is some dummy source code to illustrate sourcecode posting on wordpress # Line 2 # Line 3 cd /some/random/folder ls -l # do not run this next line! rm -rf /some
....
#REF: http://en.support.wordpress.com/code/posting-source-code/ # # This is some dummy source code to illustrate sourcecode posting on wordpress # Line 2 # Line 3 cd /some/random/folder ls -l # do not run this next line! rm -rf /some
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#REF: http://en.support.wordpress.com/code/posting-source-code/ # # This is some dummy source code to illustrate sourcecode posting on wordpress # Line 2 # Line 3 cd /some/random/folder ls -l # do not run this next line! rm -rf /some