Posting Code in WordPress Sucks

Look, WordPress is great. I use it on doDesign and have become very familiar to it. I’ll never understand, however, why WordPress doesn’t accept code in posts. I recently had to go through all my posts and repost every line of code because some of the characters got messed up. Why is it so hard? Why can’t WordPress support code in posts?

I have no idea. WordPress acknowledges the problem. In fact, they let you vote to fix the problem in WordPress 2.8. Unfortunately it did not make the list. Why? I don’t know.

For now, however, I’ll be using the Syntax Highlighter plugin. It posts the code correctly, but if you edit the post you’ll need repost the code. Oh well…

4 Responses to “Posting Code in WordPress Sucks”

1. Tomos says:

   April 5, 2009 at 6:51 pm

   I agree with you that wordpress blows when it comes to code in posts.

   A lot of blogs now seem to be using the Google Syntax Highlighter (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-syntax-highlighter/) in the posts.

   Hope this might be of any help

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   • Daniel says:

     April 5, 2009 at 6:58 pm

     I’m actually a WordPress plugin based on that Syntax Highlighter. Either way I still run into problems.

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2. Romain says:

   April 20, 2009 at 5:37 am

   I want to post code in comments. The tag seems to not work on my blog oO

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   • Daniel says:

     April 22, 2009 at 10:07 pm

     Hey,

     Use this plugin here:
     http://coffee2code.com/wp-plugins/preserve-code-formatting/

     It works wonders!

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