SyntaxHighlighter is quite a nice wordpress plugin that provides syntax highlighting for a range of programming languages (among them my favorites python & C#). the problem is, in its original unadulterated form it doesn’t play with my favorite markup plugin php markdown extra at all

after quite a bit of hacking, it transpires that one can make them play nicely with one another. the idea that i pursued was to change the [source:XXX] tag to < source lang=XXX> and have php markdown treat it the same as the < pre> tag.¹

getting markdown extra to recognize the < source> tag is fairly easy², i needed to change # Tags treated as block tags only if the opening tag is alone on it’s line: var $context_block_tags = ’script|noscript|math|ins|del’; to read

next, in the syntax plugin, all occurrences of [source: are replaced by < source lang=.

i’ve created ZIP files of the modified SyntaxHighlighter and Markdown Extra plugins, share and enjoy.

yesterday i updated the wordpress plugins on our d2h.net and xyzzyxyzzy.net blogs. once done, both blogs would not work anymore…duh! the updated geopress plugin was borked — or so it seemed…

…it turned out that i had added code to the earlier version of geopress to do pretty printing of coordinates, and, of course, the update flushed that code down the drain. thanks to a regular backup running on our web server, however, that code was not gone forever. here are the functions that i added:

the_geo_coord() gets the coordinates via geopress’s the_coord() function and simply substitutes commas for spaces.

likewise,

takes geopress’s the_coord() and pretty-prints it as human readable “old-style” latitute–longitude coordinates. the_geo_coord_esc() finally, produces a URL escaped longitude–latitude coordinate for use inside a, well, URL:

just add those PHP functions to geopress/geopress.php, shake, stir, and save.