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September 30, 2008 – 8:05 pm by JP
I’ll be doing some blog maintenance in the next few days.
The code highlighter blows, so I’m replacing it with one that can also be used in the comments. That means I have to go through all 75+ posts and change the code to display the VBA properly 
And I’m upgrading to Wordpress 2.6.2.
So the blog might be down periodically. When I’m updating, you might get a “back in 15 minutes” sign.
Apologies in advance.
–JP
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6 Responses to “Blog Maintenance”
Jimmy -
What code highlighter will you be implementing? I tried a bunch when I started my blog, and settled on the one with the lowest suck factor. But I still didn’t like it, so I’ve reverted to writing my own <pre> tags in the html.
By Jon Peltier on Oct 1, 2008
This one:
http://blog.igeek.info/still-fresh/category/wp-plugins/igsyntax-hiliter/
It’s the same one from DDoE. I modified it slightly so it shows “VBA” instead of “VB”.
I was previously using this one: http://www.ericbess.com/ericblog/2008/03/03/wp-codebox/
This is the same one from Chandoo’s blog, and it’s a great highlighter, but for some reason the colors weren’t working on my blog. The code in the codebox was showing as plain black-on-white text.
It still isn’t ideal. If I could write my own plugin, I’d combine the best features of both (like the ability to collapse the codebox).
By JP on Oct 1, 2008
I was using the same one as on Daily Dose. I didn’t like the colors, but never got around to changing them. But also, the indentation was unreliable, and the whole thing just didn’t feel right.
By Jon Peltier on Oct 1, 2008
When I get around to it, I’ll change the colors so they’re more like the VBIDE.
By JP on Oct 1, 2008
igsyntax doesn’t work well in comments, imo. You still have to manually escape the less-than character or it will interpret it as an html tag. Oh, you can put a note to commenters to do that, but they won’t. The next commenter on ddoe that does it will be the first.
By Dick Kusleika on Oct 1, 2008
How wonderful. Well, I don’t get much code in the comments anyway. I’m more concerned about my own posts having the syntax coloring.
Thx,
JP
By JP on Oct 1, 2008