Description
This plugin uses the Sunburst theme, a colorful and high contrast dark theme to highlight your code syntax with Highlight.js. Highlight.js is accurate, fast, lightweight and easy to use.
Usage
Short-code method:
- From within a WordPress page or post, wrap the
[prettify][/prettify]shortcode around the code snippet you wish to highlight. - You can specify a language by specifying the language extension inside the shortcode.
Example:
[prettify class=”html”][/prettify] - The shortcode will work from within either the Visual or HTML editor.
Non-short-code method:
-
Wrap your code snippets in “
.
- You can specify a language by specifying a class in the
element.
Example:
<pre><code class="html">
Sunburst Only
This plugin only contains the CSS file for the Sunburst theme syntax highlighting formatting, because it is the best dark syntax theme. If (for some reason) you wanted to highlight your code using a different theme, there are other syntax highlighting themes available in the Highlight.js Theme Gallery
Languages Supported:
- Bash
- C#
- C++
- CSS
- Diff
- HTML, XML
- Ini
- Java
- JavaScript
- PHP
- Perl
- Python
- Ruby
- SQL