WordPress plugin to make code samples prettier
I’ve always had a weakness for “preferences”. I spent hours going through all the available preference panes on the first Mac I had access to (an SE II I think, ca. 1989), tweaking this and that to get it to look as “customized” as possible. Hours setting up font and styles on school assignments, days banging on my Emacs config to be more like I want.
So it’s been secretly irking me for a while that although I installed the very nice WP-Syntax code highlighting plugin for this WordPress blog, it was hard to get it to display things in reverse-video like I prefer for all my terminal and text editor windows, and like I love in the online Symfony documentation. It’s just nicer on the eyes, you know? Digging in, I found the GeSHI syntax highlighter to be impressive in scope but scary in its inline-style-generating detail.
So today, to solve the problem for more than just me, I published my very first WordPress plugin, wp-syntax-hacktify. Very educational! I like the plugin system at wordpress.org.
The plugin tells GeSHI to use stylesheets instead and provides a slightly more commented/documented stylesheet as an example for if you’d like to override it with your own color scheme.
So now my code samples can be all nicer and stuff, like this:
/** * Print a string to the log using 'debug' level. For printf-style * debugging. * * @param string $m The string to log * @return nothing */ public static function debug ($m) { if (sfConfig::has('sf_logging_enabled') && sfConfig::get('sf_logging_enabled')) { if ($logger = sfContext::getInstance()->getLogger()) { $logger->debug($m); } } elseif (sfConfig::has('bhLDAP_echo_debugging') && sfConfig::get('bhLDAP_echo_debugging')) { echo "# $m\n"; } else { // echo $m; } } /** * Dump a data structure to the log at the 'debug' level. Uses * print_r() formatting. * * @param mixed $v The variable/data structure to dump * @param string $label An optional label to print in front of the dump * @return nothing */ public static function debugDump ($v, $label = "var dump") { self::debug("$label: " . print_r($v, true)); } |
Now the code on my blog can look nice even if it’s terrifically hacky!
This looks very nice. I’ve been looking for a plugin that displays code like this. Thanks for sharing it!
Pablo
Hey, Nate! Looks like I just became User #181 of your plugin – it will see first use on my blog later today!
Oh gee <blush>. I feel so famous. Feel free to improve it.
i will test the plugin,thanks