Arsalan’s Musings

When I decided to start a blog to post source code for small projects, I needed a blogging platform that would make posting source code with keyword highlights, line numbers, and proper indentation a snap. After a bit of search and general disappointment with blogging systems, I came across the wonderful feature in WordPress that let’s you post beautifully styled source code simply by enclosing the code inside the SourceCode tag! And that was all I had to do! Brilliant!

The only caveat I found so far is that the view seems fixed in width. So you have to choose a theme that gives you more space in the main text area. If a line in your code is longer than what the template allows, you will get a horizontal scroll bar. However, if you scroll right to see the overflowing code, you will notice that the alternating background color scheme does not apply there. Clearly a bug and a big disappointment. I hope some body at WordPress sees this post and removes that defect. This is still the best and easiest way to date to showcase your source code in a blog.

Here is the FAQ for WordPress.

Happy coding!