Title: Plugin does not format my code (it’s not doing anything)
Last modified: June 9, 2020

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# Plugin does not format my code (it’s not doing anything)

 *  Resolved [rickmaurinus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rickmaurinus/)
 * (@rickmaurinus)
 * [5 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-does-not-format-my-code-its-not-doing-anything/)
 * Good morning,
 * I’m really looking forward to using the Syntax Highlighter plugin. I can’t get
   it to work however… I installed the plugin, made sure the <?php wp_footer(); ?
   > is in the footer, and activated the plugin too. When I make use of the ‘Syntaxhighlighter
   Code’ block, I get the regular formatting.
 * Do you have any recommendations on what I could do to fix this?
 * Regards,
    Rick
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 *  [Prateek Saxena](https://wordpress.org/support/users/prtksxna/)
 * (@prtksxna)
 * [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-does-not-format-my-code-its-not-doing-anything/#post-12987205)
 * I am facing the same issue. Not getting line numbers either. Note I am using 
   the Gutenberg block and not the shortcode. This is the generated HTML:
 * `<pre class="brush: xml; title: ; notranslate">...</pre>`
 *  Thread Starter [rickmaurinus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rickmaurinus/)
 * (@rickmaurinus)
 * [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-does-not-format-my-code-its-not-doing-anything/#post-12987463)
 * Switching themes fixed things for me. Only issue still is that when one types
   the ampersand (&), it changes to &.

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 * Last reply from: [rickmaurinus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rickmaurinus/)
 * Last activity: [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-does-not-format-my-code-its-not-doing-anything/#post-12987463)
 * Status: resolved