djsipe.com » Plugin http://blog.djsipe.com Web Development Sat, 31 Dec 2011 16:25:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 My First Plugin http://blog.djsipe.com/2008/01/31/my-first-plugin/ http://blog.djsipe.com/2008/01/31/my-first-plugin/#comments Fri, 01 Feb 2008 03:07:32 +0000 DJ http://www.djsipe.com/2008/01/31/my-first-plugin/ Code FaceAfter a few posts where I wanted to include code examples, I quickly became frustrated with the standard <pre> display that the folks at WordPress recommend. I looked for a plugin that worked well, but didn’t like what I was seeing. So at the prodding of my colleague, Pat Doran, I decided to roll my own plugin.

The result is my “Code Face” plugin. It uses the YUI JavaScript framework to scan your posts and replace specially tagged <pre> blocks with rich code syntax highlighting via the syntaxhighlighter utility. Ninety-nine percent of the plugin is written in JavaScript using the concept of progressive enhancement. That means that even if your readers have JavaScript turned off or are using a screen reader, the content of your post is still highly accessible.

Check it out and let me know what you think. I’d love to hear your comments.

Update: This version of Code Face is now on Github.  Hope to have an easier to use version update soon.

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