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Anyone know of a plugin that adds syntax highlighting to the post/page HTML editor?

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it is not a straight questions. Try google first. – Hans Zimermann Jul 17 '11 at 21:53
@Hans- I tried google, did you? What don't you understand about the question? – Yarin Jul 17 '11 at 21:54
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Just to clarify what you're asking(because it appears everyone is reading the question different to how i am).. You're looking for a syntax highlighter for the post editor, not the theme/plugin editor, would that be correct? – t31os Jul 18 '11 at 11:23

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I am using SyntaxHighlighter Evolved by Viper007Bond, works great! http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/syntaxhighlighter/

After I gave this answer yesterday, I read a recent post by Konstantin Kovshenin over at theme.fm, which gives you all the different possibilities on how to add syntax into your Posts/Pages: http://theme.fm/2011/07/working-with-code-in-wordpress-posts-985/

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I've used Power Code Editor in the past it has syntax highlighting. It's been awhile since I've used it, but it seemed to work fine then.

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I found a shortcode by @Bainternet in Ohad Raz weblog that can help you to build your sintax highlight own plugin, or just type it into your functions.php file theme.

function bainternet_highlight($atts, $content = null) {
extract(shortcode_atts(array(
    'color' => 'yellow',
    'font' => '#000000'
  ), $atts));
  return "<FONT style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: $color; color: $font\">$content</font>";
}
add_shortcode('highlight','bainternet_highlight');

Usage: [ highlight ] this text is highlighted [/highlight]

Now, if you are searching for a MCE syntax highlightter, the best plugin I have found is the Advanced code Editor

Hope that helped with your question.

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I was looking forever for the solution. I finally found this plugin which actually does a lot of things. But i only used the option to add a HTML button to the row of buttons which lets you edit post/page html with CodeMirror highlighting.

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This one could solve the problem http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/html-editor-syntax-highlighter/

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Please read meta.stackoverflow.com/a/104231/145551 and stop copying the same answer. – toscho Apr 19 '12 at 14:00

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