Title: Code formatting?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Code formatting?

 *  [Class](https://wordpress.org/support/users/class/)
 * (@class)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/code-formatting/)
 * I’ve tried everything I think, to get code formatted correctly.
    Trying to post
   something like a quote from bash.org for example is nigh on impossible to format
   correctly, WP is being clever and converts the special chars <> and such to formatting
   code, argh! I have tried with the code inside “cite”, “bq”, “code” and several
   other tags but WP still insist on converting them.
 * Does anyone have a solution to this?

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 *  [woodster](https://wordpress.org/support/users/woodster/)
 * (@woodster)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/code-formatting/#post-321218)
 * I am having the same problem. I want to post some coding, which includes a variety
   of tags, but WP always reformats it. Now I notice on this site it says to use
   backticks. Well, I am going to do that here and see what happens. However, on
   my own WP 2.0 site, the backticks trich does not work.
    If anybody ever figures
   this out, I’d love to know.
 * Ok, start the code here
    ` <p>This is just an example of posting to a WordPress
   blog via email. This particular post contains a link to the WordPress documentation
   on how to implement this functionality.</p> <p><a href="http://codex.wordpress.
   org/Blog_by_Email" target="_blank">http://codex.wordpress.org/Blog_by_Email</
   a></p>
 * Well, that seemed to have worked just fine. Now how come it does not work on 
   my WP 2.0?

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 * [formatting](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/formatting/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 1 reply
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 * Last reply from: [woodster](https://wordpress.org/support/users/woodster/)
 * Last activity: [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/code-formatting/#post-321218)
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