Title: [Plugin: WP SyntaxHighlighter] html entity inside post-content Last modified: August 20, 2016 --- # [Plugin: WP SyntaxHighlighter] html entity inside post-content * [Hiranthi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/illutic/) * (@illutic) * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-syntaxhighlighter-html-entity-inside-post-content/) * I’m not sure when this started, but for some reason WP SyntaxHighligter is transforming the > ‘ < & charachters to `> ;` etc. When I disable the plugin the content goes through well (so for a new post today I disabled the plugin, edited the code inside the pre-tag, saved the post and re-enabled the plugin). It’s really annoying because it’s making the code hard to read. * Using v1.7.1 and added the code inside the pre-tag through the html-editor. * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-syntaxhighlighter/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-syntaxhighlighter/) Viewing 6 replies - 1 through 6 (of 6 total) * Plugin Author [redcocker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/redcocker/) * (@redcocker) * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-syntaxhighlighter-html-entity-inside-post-content/#post-2513210) * Hi, Hiranthi Molhoek-Herlaar san * > When I disable the plugin the content goes through well (so for a new post > today I disabled the plugin, edited the code inside the pre-tag, saved the > post and re-enabled the plugin). It’s really annoying because it’s making the > code hard to read. * It’s no wonder. After you disabled it , Don’t edit your code. * More precisely, you need to escape your code to HTML entities. And you need to use HTML editor.(Don’t use Visual editor!) * `
Escaped code
` * When WP SyntaxHighlighter is enabled, WP SyntaxHighlighter do it automatically. * Thread Starter [Hiranthi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/illutic/) * (@illutic) * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-syntaxhighlighter-html-entity-inside-post-content/#post-2513270) * I get the feeling you’re misunderstanding me. I had to disable the plugin to get the code to be displayed properly, I didn’t disable it just for fun. * The WP Syntaxhighlighter plugin is adding htmlentities to the entire post-contents, which makes it extremely hard to read on the frontend (and backend too). Extremely annoying. I had to disable the plugin to turn the entitized (or whatever it’s called) characters back to what they had to be (< > ‘ & etc) and then enable the plugin again to get the highlighting on the frontend back. * So: with the plugin enabled all < in the post (whether they’re inside pre-tags or not) are getting changed to `> ;` (minus the space ofcourse), which also affects the frontend (since everything inside pre-tags are getting displayed as is). But: when I disable the WP Syntaxhighlighter plugin code between pre- tags aren’t getting changed. I have also tested with WP Syntaxhighlighter enabled and other pre-plugins (as in: plugins that preserve the code within the pre-tags) disabled but that didn’t work either. The only thing that works to keep the code between pre-tags formatted as it should be is with disabling WP Syntaxhighlighter. * And as I already mentioned in the OT: I didn’t use the Visual Editor. * Plugin Author [redcocker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/redcocker/) * (@redcocker) * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-syntaxhighlighter-html-entity-inside-post-content/#post-2513276) * Hi, Hiranthi Molhoek-Herlaar san * For security reason, WP Syntaxhighlighter escapes your code inside `
` tag
   to HTML entities.
 * It’s a feature.
 * Before you install WP Syntaxhighlighter, If your posts have `
` tag elements
   and contents inside them are not eacaped perfectly, this plugin escapes contents
   inside them to HTML entities.
 * > So: with the plugin enabled all < in the post (whether they’re inside pre-tags
   > or not) are getting changed to > ; (minus the space ofcourse), which also
   > affects the frontend (since everything inside pre-tags are getting displayed
   > as is).
 * It’s a strange result.
    If so, even `
` tag will be escaped to HTML entities.
   This plugin affects only sourcesode inside `
` tag.
 * Please take a closer look.
 * When all plugin are disabled except WP Syntaxhighlighter, does it work?
 * > But: when I disable the WP Syntaxhighlighter plugin code between pre-tags aren’t
   > getting changed.
 * When you save your post, this plugin escapes your code inside `
` tag to 
   HTML entities.(before storing your post data in DB)
 * If you saved your post before disable it, your sourcecde can’t turn back.
 *  Thread Starter [Hiranthi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/illutic/)
 * (@illutic)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-syntaxhighlighter-html-entity-inside-post-content/#post-2513494)
 * > When all plugin are disabled except WP Syntaxhighlighter, does it work?
 * As I explained a few times: it only behaves like this when I have WP Syntaxhighlighter
   enabled, so its definetely something in there. I’m guessing it doesn’t put everything
   back before printing it to the screen (and thus looks awful).
 * I’ll look into another solution, since this just doesn’t work.
 *  [vehicros](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vehicros/)
 * (@vehicros)
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-syntaxhighlighter-html-entity-inside-post-content/#post-2513514)
 * I hate to ask, but the the heck is a REDCOCKER, it sounds really nasty!
 *  Plugin Author [redcocker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/redcocker/)
 * (@redcocker)
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-syntaxhighlighter-html-entity-inside-post-content/#post-2513515)
 * Hi, vehicros san
 * “redcocker” means my dog, the red color of English cocker spaniel.
    But He had
   died

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