Title: help with sourcecode tag
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# help with sourcecode tag

 *  [edstevensdba](https://wordpress.org/support/users/edstevensdba/)
 * (@edstevensdba)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-with-sourcecode-tag/)
 * I’m not sure if this is the best forum for my question, but have to start somewhere.
 * I currently have a blog at ‘edstevensdba.wordpress.com’. I am looking at giving
   it a complete makeover and moving it to my own domain. To that end, I have installed
   xammp on my pc and downloaded/installed WordPress to start doing some offline
   work before making a final decision about getting a host and registering a domain
   name.
 * I make heavy use of the ‘sourcecode’ tag, as can be seen, for example, at [https://edstevensdba.wordpress.com/category/storage-management/](https://edstevensdba.wordpress.com/category/storage-management/).
 * Now, when working at my localhost version, whenever I create a post with a block
   of code in the [sourcecode .. tag, it does not render as expected. Instead, the[
   sourcecode] [/sourcecode] tags themselves are displayed as normal text. I even
   exported my entire wordpress.com site and imported it into my localhost site,
   and get the same result.
 * Any clues or ideas?

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 *  [Hassan Akhtar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/khaxan/)
 * (@khaxan)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-with-sourcecode-tag/#post-5660071)
 * On stand-alone sites like the one you have installed on your local machine, shortcodes
   are implemented with the help of plugins. I haven’t used WordPress.com sites 
   but I am assuming that the [source_code] tag was available by default there. 
   If you want it to work on your new site then you need to find and install a plugin
   that offers this shortcode (or something similar).
 *  Thread Starter [edstevensdba](https://wordpress.org/support/users/edstevensdba/)
 * (@edstevensdba)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-with-sourcecode-tag/#post-5660104)
 * WP Gurus –
 * That was the lead I needed.
 * I went back to my plugins page, add new, searched on ‘sourcecode’. Reviewed likely
   candidates (based on what I had read in other forum posts while trying to self-
   research this) and ended up installing ‘Syntax Highlighter Evolved’. That immediately
   corrected all of my posts, restoring the source code syntax highlighting.
 * Thanks a bunch for the quick response.
 *  [Hassan Akhtar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/khaxan/)
 * (@khaxan)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-with-sourcecode-tag/#post-5660172)
 * Great!

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 3 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Hassan Akhtar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/khaxan/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-with-sourcecode-tag/#post-5660172)
 * Status: not resolved

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