First, install and activate the SP ‘Syntax Highlighter’ plugin.

To use it you really need to be using the tinymce editor although it can be used manually in other editors.

Insert the code. You need to really copy the code from a code editor and paste it into the post. Highlight the code section (only) with the mouse cursor and then open the editor toolbar code button (far right) and select the code language being used.

That’s it.

Thanks so much for the thorough and prompt reply.  I will pass onto my tech guys to implement.

Hope it works for you OK. We use it on this site quite extensively. You have the option to use it in blog posts as well once it is active.

Sorry for the test here:

<?php
 if ( file_exists(STYLESHEETPATH . '/featured.php') )
 include_once(STYLESHEETPATH . '/featured.php');
 else
 include_once(TEMPLATEPATH . '/featured.php');
 ?>

test

hmm, that’s what i get:

colors can be set?

I would need to be able yo see the actual forum page this is on to be able to see what CSS is being applied (using Firebug or any built in browser development tools) but my guess is that this is being overridden in some way by your WP theme or another plugin. No way to know without inspecting it…

Thanks for helping here. Here is the site: http://myclassipress.com/

WordPress 3.5.1

Theme: “Appply” from Woothemes ( http://www.woothemes.com/products/appply/ )

Changes done in the forum: Only some color changes in shades-of-gray(css)

It seems that there is a conflict between this syntax highlighter in the forum and the Crayon highlighter from http://aramk.com/projects/crayon-syntax-highlighter/ because i just made a test and switched off the Crayon plugin. The code then gets highlighted in the forum as it does here.

It’s not a solution for me to use the highlighter from the forum in my blog, as Crayon gives much more possibilities in use. When you visit the site you will understand why the syntax highlighter is one off the most important things that gets used. (tutorials)

I hope you can give me a solution. 

Thank you

First question is does this ‘Crayon’ plugin allow you to stop it being loaded on certain pages?

No, there is no such option. 

so its loading its stuff on every page?  even if not needed?  what a waste…

can you find in the code of the plugin, where the script is loaded?  then we can help give you some code for your sp functions file to unload it on the forum page…

Well, i’m not sure how else it should work. The script gets loaded when a WP page or post is in use.

I’m absolutely not blaming Simple-Press for this behaviour, i’m just not clear about how to tell a script in which WordPress page it should not load.

For example: I create a “about us” page and a “Forum” page. How can i tell a script “do it here, but not there”

Don’t even know where i should look in this plugin: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/crayon-syntax-highlighter/changelog/

guess it should be expected that two plugins trying to do the same thing to content would have problems…  and since they dont selectively load their stuff when needed, and do not appear to provide a hook to keep it from loading, then I would suggest forcing it not to load the entire plugin on the forum page…

there are multiple plugins for wp that you selectively disable (or enable) plugins on certain pages… I would give one of those a try… I think the one folks use the most is:  http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/plugin-organizer/