coffee2code

NOTE: Use of the visual text editor will pose problems as it can mangle your intent in terms of <code> tags. I do not offer any support for those who have the visual editor active.

Basically, you can just paste code into <code>, <pre>, and/or other tags you additionally specify and this plugin will:

• Prevent WordPress from HTML-encoding text (i.e. single- and double-quotes will not become curly; -- and --- will not become en dash and em dash, respectively; ... will not become a horizontal ellipsis, etc)
• Prevent most other plugins from modifying preserved code
• Optionally preserve whitespace (in a variety of methods)
• Optionally preserve code added in comments

Keep these things in mind:

• ALL embedded HTML tags and HTML entities will be rendered as text to browsers, appearing exactly as you wrote them (including any <br />).
• By default this plugin filters ‘the_content’ (post content), ‘the_excerpt’ (post excerpt), and ‘get_comment_text (comment content)’.

Example:

A post containing this within <code>&;t/code>:

`$wpdb->query("
        INSERT INTO $tablepostmeta
        (post_id,meta_key,meta_value)
        VALUES ('$post_id','link','$extended')
");

Would, with this plugin enabled, look in a browser pretty much how it does above, instead of like:

$wpdb->query(—
INSERT INTO $tablepostmeta
(post_id,meta_key,meta_value)
VALUES ('$post_id','link','$extended')
―);

1. Download the file preserve-code-formatting.zip and unzip it into your wp-content/plugins/ directory.
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ admin menu in WordPress.
3. Go to the Options → Code Formatting (or in WP 2.5: Settings → Code Formatting) admin options page.
   Optionally customize the options.