wp-prism

githubesque syntax highlighting and code fencing plugin for WordPress.

wp-prism brings GitHub-styled code-fencing and prism-powered syntax highlighting to your WordPress installation, written from scratch to be as freaky fast as possible.

wp-prism currently supports syntax highlighting for 41 languages and only loads the JavaScript and CSS to highlight your syntax when needed.

You can say goodbye to page bloat and long load times, because it makes no sense to do this any other way.

What it does

wp-prism does exactly what it says on the box: it takes a code-fenced block of source code nested in your WordPress pages and posts, like this:

```rust
fn main() {
    println!("Hello, world!");
}
```

And turns into a syntax-highlighted work of art, like this:

fn main() {
    println!("Hello, world!");
}

How to install

Just grab a copy of wp-prism from the WordPress plugins repository or clone our github repo from https://github.com/neosmart/wp-prism.

There is no configuration needed.

Avoiding whitespace mangling

WordPress (well, TinyMCE) loves to mangle whitespace in posts. As such, wp-prism supports (and recommends) embedding your code fragments in <pre> tags if you're going to use the visual editor (or will use the visual editor at any point). wp-prism detects the outer <pre> and takes care not to emit a second <pre> tag in such cases.

To illustrate with an example:

<pre>
```cpp
void Greet(const char *name)
{
    printf("Hello %s!\n", name);
}
```
</pre>

void Greet(const char *name)
{
    printf("Hello %s!\n", name);
}