Hey everyone, I'm trying to do a basic CSS tutorial post on one of my new Wordpress blogs but for some strange reason the <code></code> tags are not working. Everytime I go to preview the tutorial the CSS code I entered between the code tags shows up as blank. I've tried everything possible I can think of. I've tried writing the post/tutorial using both the visual and HTML option, yet still no luck. I've also searched Google to find a solution and nothing seems to help. Several search engine results lead me to sites/forums that suggested using the following in my WP blog post: [sourcecode language="css"] your code here [/sourcecode] ...yet that doesn't work either. What the heck could be causing this to happen? I just want to write a simple CSS tutorial for beginners and I can't even get the darn code to appear!!! Any help would be greatly appreciated!!
Don't know if you've seen this in your search, but wordpress themselves have a pretty thorough explanation of how to include <code> in your posts. http://codex.wordpress.org/Writing_Code_in_Your_Posts#Resources Read through it but basically it comes down to needing the <pre> tag as well as character entities for things like the < , > , / , etc... At the bottom of their guide is a list of plugins that make the whole process easier if you plan on including tons of <code> on your site. Update: Just played around with it on a test blog. The [/sourcecode] tag will work just fine if you include the <pre> tags... something like this: <pre> [sourcecode] <p> This is a test </p> <h2 id="ninjas">NINJAS!</h2> [/sourcecode] </pre>
thanks MmmDesign, after spending countless hours trying to get it to work properly with just regular <pre> and [sourcecode] tags I finally decided to use a plugin for this and it works great. Problem solved!