Title: Goodbye Syntax Highlighter
Author: dwhitevisoft
Published: 14 Agoosto, 2012
Last modified: 11 Febraayo, 2013
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Raadi kaabayaal
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It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.
# Goodbye Syntax Highlighter
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## Sharraxaad
For years I’ve used [Alex Gorbatchev’s SyntaxHighlighter](http://alexgorbatchev.com/SyntaxHighlighter/).
It has served me well over the years. When I moved to WordPress I tried various
plugins based on the library, such [SyntaxHighlighter Evolved](https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/syntaxhighlighter/).
I’ve decided to start blogging using [Markdown](http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/).
Making this move I needed to find a way to highlight various bits of source code
in an easy way. There are many nice libraries that make this a snap, such as [google-code-prettify](http://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/)
or [highlight.js](http://softwaremaniacs.org/soft/highlight/en/). In the end I decided
to go with highlight.js, for the simple reason that it is automatic, working flawlessly
with Markdown’s code syntax output.
Great, but my existing source code examples use SyntaxHighlighter’s style for code
blocks (using ``, for example). I could have converted
things in a few ways:
* Change the database
* Write a JS script to convert the `` structure to `
`
* Write a JS script to call highlight.js’ `highlightBlock` method
* Write a WP plugin and reformat things easily **Ding Ding Ding**
So there you have it. This WordPress plugin will go through and process your SyntaxHighlighter
style blocks into ones that highlight.js works with out-of-the-box. It will also
add the language that you have specified with the `brush` class and add it as a
class on the `