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WP Colored Coding

Description

Brings the cool Javascript syntax highlighter Rainbow.js to your WordPress-Blog and allows you to manage code snippets independend from the text editor.

IMPORTANT! – This plugin is no longer testet with PHP 5.2!

Quick Start

  1. Download the plugin from this page
  2. Follow the instructions on the WordPress Codex to install the plugin.
    By default, the plugin is ready for use after activation. Some options can be changed on Settings → Writing.

For a detailed usage manual refer to the Usage section, or – better than a thousand words – to the screenshots.

If you want to change the behaviour of the plugin see the API-Documentation

Settings

By default, the plugin is ready for use after activation. Some options can be changed on Settings → Writing.

Raw output

This option enables an additional checkbox for each codeblock of a post which allows you to disable the esc_attr() filter for that code snippet. That means, every HTML and Javascript inside this textarea will be parsed by the browser as those. So be carefull with this option.

Usage

Codeblocks

A single Codeblock is identified (in the posts context) by its name. If you don’t want to specify a name for each block, leave it empty, it will be generated automatically.

The language field is also optional. To use syntax highlighting, write in a rainbow supported language. (It will give you suggestions.) Currently these are
* C
* Coffeescript
* C#
* CSS
* Go
* HTML
* Java
* JavaScript
* Lua
* PHP
* Python
* R
* Ruby
* Shell
* Smalltalk

Each codeblock can be placed anywhere in the text by using the shortcode [cc name="{name}"]. You can use the TinyMCE button »CC« for that.

Shortcode (in-text code)

For just a few lines of code you may want to use the shortcode like this:

[cc lang="javascript"]
var str = 'Hello World';
alert( str );
[/cc]

Contribution & Bug-Report

For bug reports or ideas for new features, please use the issue tracker on gitub.

API

The following filters are provided:

  • wp_cc_rainbow_themes
  • wp_cc_rainbow_scripts
  • wp_cc_rainbow_languages

Adding a new Theme is quite easy. Just expend the themes-array by a key like this

/**
 * @param array $themes
 * @return array
 */
function my_new_rainbow_theme( $themes ) {
    $themes[ 'my_theme' ] = array(
        'src'  => //the absolute URI to the stylesheet
        'name' => 'My Theme'
    );

    return $themes;
}
add_filter( 'wp_cc_rainbow_themes', 'my_new_rainbow_theme' );

To add a supported language use

/**
 * @param array $scripts
 * @return array
 */
function my_new_rainbow_script( $scripts ) {
    $scripts[ 'my_new_lang' ] = array(
        'src'       => //the absolute URI to the script
        'depth'     => array( 'rainbow' ),
        'lang'      => 'my_new_lang',
        'in_footer' => TRUE # this must be equal with the script it depends on
    );

    # to override the built-in rainbow version use the key 'rainbow'

    return $scripts;
}
add_filter( 'wp_cc_rainbow_scripts', 'my_new_rainbow_script' );

/**
 * @param array $langs
 * @return array
 */
function my_new_lang( $langs ) {

    $langs[ 'my_new_lang' ] = 'My new lang';

    return $langs;
}
add_filter( 'wp_cc_rainbow_languages', 'my_new_lang' );

Deactivation/Uninstallation

If you deactivate the plugin all settings and codes will be preserved. On uninstallation (delete), all settings and codes will be deleted finally. If this is triggered from the network-admin page, all blogs will be cleaned up.

Acknowledgement

Screenshots

  • The Meta-Box on post edit screen to manage your code snippeds.
  • TinyMCE popup to build and insert shortcode into the text editor.
  • WP Colored Coding settings section.

Installation

Just download the latest tag and follow the instructions on the WordPress Codex. Otherwise you can use the plugin installer in your WordPress backend.

FAQ

Are there any frequently asked questions?

None so far. If you have any questions feel free to contact me (english, german) or use the support forum on wordpress.org.

Reviews

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Contributors & Developers

“WP Colored Coding” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

Translate “WP Colored Coding” into your language.

Interested in development?

Browse the code, check out the SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS.

Changelog

2014.08.19

  • Adaption to TinyMCE version 4.*
  • Update Rainbow.js to version 1.2
  • Some security enhancements
  • Bugfixes
  • Changed version number format

1.2.0

  • fixed a bug of the unfiltered output option
  • better readme.txt for wordpress.org

1.1.0

  • spanish language files
  • rainbow support for Go, R, Coffeescript, Java, Smalltalk

1.0.1

  • bugfix
  • Theme Technicolor updated

1.0.0

  • initial release