Title: Easy Google Syntax Highlighter
Author: nburlock
Published: <strong>July 19, 2009</strong>
Last modified: October 22, 2009

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It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
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# Easy Google Syntax Highlighter

 By [nburlock](https://profiles.wordpress.org/nburlock/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/easy-google-syntax-highlighter.zip)

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 *  [Installation](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/easy-google-syntax-highlighter/#installation)
 * [Development](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/easy-google-syntax-highlighter/#developers)

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## Description

This plugin is an implementation of the [Syntax Highlighter 2.1.364](http://alexgorbatchev.com/wiki/SyntaxHighlighter)
by Alex Gorbatchev with a front end to allow configuring all the global settings
that are available, such having the plugin automatically include languages to highlight,
thereby improving page loading performance.

#### Syntax Supported

ActionScript3, Bash/shell, C#, C++, CSS, Delphi, Diff,
 Groovy, JavaScript, Java,
JavaFX, Perl, PHP, Plain Text, PowerShell, Python, Ruby, Scala, SQL, Visual Basic,
XML

#### Themes

Default, Django, Emacs, FadeToGrey, Midnight, RDark

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * Simple Javascript example

## Installation

 1. Extract plugin into /wp-content/plugins directory.
 2. Activate the plugin.
 3. Specify your code snippets in your blog post using the [Usage Directions](http://alexgorbatchev.com/wiki/SyntaxHighlighter:Usage).

This example will highligh the source as Javascript:

    ```
    <pre class="brush:js">
        alert("Hello world");
    </pre>
    ```

## FAQ

#### How do I get the best performance out of this plugin?

* Disable any syntax types that your blog doesn’t use, especially if you are only
using a few of the syntax brushes.
 * If your blog has a footer, you should enable
the option to put the brushes in the footer. * Also, if your blog has a footer, 
then Enable the automatic feature which will only include the language brushes that
are referenced on each page of your blog.

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“Easy Google Syntax Highlighter” is open source software. The following people have
contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ nburlock ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/nburlock/)

[Translate “Easy Google Syntax Highlighter” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/easy-google-syntax-highlighter)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/easy-google-syntax-highlighter/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/easy-google-syntax-highlighter/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/easy-google-syntax-highlighter/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/easy-google-syntax-highlighter/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.2.1

 * Added a message warning against using Auto Brushes without Brushes in Footer
 * The reset button on Settings wasn’t resetting the Default Brush option
 * Changed the internal name for Auto Brushes to something less generic. Please 
   check Auto Brush settings after installing this update.

#### 1.2.0

 * Updated to version 2.1.364 of Alex Gorbachev’s highlighter script
 * New feature to use a default brush for tags that don’t specify a brush (thanks
   to gjulian for the suggestion)
 * Fixed a bug that stopped a custom tag being used when Auto Brushes was enabled
 * Removed redundant code

#### 1.1.1

 * Fixed incorrect path for script copy swf file

#### 1.1.0

 * Option to automatically include language brushes that are referenced on the blog
   page being viewed
 * Minor tweaks to allow this plugin to work with wp-minify

#### 1.0.0

 * First version

## Meta

 *  Version **1.2.1**
 *  Last updated **17 years ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 2.0.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **2.8.5**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-google-syntax-highlighter/)
 * Tags
 * [blog](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/blog/)[code](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/code/)
   [google](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/google/)[highlighter](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/highlighter/)
   [syntax](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/syntax/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/easy-google-syntax-highlighter/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ nburlock ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/nburlock/)

## Support

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