Title: Software Developer Blogging
Last modified: August 19, 2016
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# Software Developer Blogging
* [plnelson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/plnelson/)
* (@plnelson)
* [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/software-developer-blogging/)
* I’m a software developer (C#, ASP.NET, WPF) and I’d like to write about things
I’ve learned, to share with others. Since I already have a WordPress blog for
some other writing I do, I thought I might start a new WordPress blog for this.
* But I was dismayed by the information on
[http://codex.wordpress.org/Writing_Code_in_Your_Posts](http://codex.wordpress.org/Writing_Code_in_Your_Posts)
* It makes it look like embedding source code, especially HTML, CSS, or XML is
a royal pain! The impression I get is that I have to hand-edit the HTML of my
blog content, not only when I create the post, but also if I edit my post later.
* How bad is it in practice? Should I consider a non-blog, or non-Wordpress blog
alternative if I expect to embed lots of source code in my blog entries?
* Thanks in advance for comments and opinions.
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* [iridiax](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iridiax/)
* (@iridiax)
* [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/software-developer-blogging/#post-1172148)
* Here’s what I’d recommend:
* [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-syntax/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-syntax/)
* [jon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adiant/)
* (@adiant)
* [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/software-developer-blogging/#post-1172151)
* Thanks for the tip! I’d run into the same problem and was planning to come up
with a home-brew solution. This plug-in looks really promising. And much nicer
than anything I’d have time to do.
* Thread Starter [plnelson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/plnelson/)
* (@plnelson)
* [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/software-developer-blogging/#post-1172188)
* > Here’s what I’d recommend:
> [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-syntax/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-syntax/)
* But am I correct in interpreting that we’d still have to hand-edit the HTML of
our blog postings? (to add ` ...
` ) I can’t believe in 2009 we don’t
have a WYSIWYG blog tool – hand-editing HTML is so last century! (“Sherman, set
the Wayback Machine for 1993 and while you’re at it, put “Achy Breaky Heart”
on the 8-track . . . “)
* Also, does it survive across edits Publish – Edit – Publish – Edit ?
* [iridiax](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iridiax/)
* (@iridiax)
* [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/software-developer-blogging/#post-1172223)
* > But am I correct in interpreting that we’d still have to hand-edit the HTML
> of our blog postings?
* All you have to do is wrap your code in the appropriate pre tags with this plugin:
* ``
* > Also, does it survive across edits Publish – Edit – Publish – Edit ?
* Yes, if you don’t use the non-code-friendly visual editor. Switching back and
forth between the visual and html editors will mangle your code because these
editors do things very differently. The visual editor is meant for non-coders,
beginners, and others who just don’t ever want to mess with any code.
* Thread Starter [plnelson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/plnelson/)
* (@plnelson)
* [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/software-developer-blogging/#post-1172274)
* > All you have to do is wrap your code in the appropriate pre tags with this
> plugin:
>
* What plug in? get_footer()’s not a plug in.
* There seem to be several plug ins out there that **claim** to handle
``
and singlequotes correctly. What’s the best one?
* > The visual editor is meant for non-coders, beginners, and others who just
> don’t ever want to mess with any code.
* You’re saying the ENTIRE blog entry has to be done in HTML, not just the parts
I want to display as HTML?! WYSIWYG editors are **NOT** just for non-coders –
they are for writers who want to see what the reader will see before publishing
it. Besides being a software engineer I’m also a writer and good writing requires
seeing how something lays on the page before publishing it to the world.
* Is all blogging software this primitive or is this something unique to WordPress?
* [jon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adiant/)
* (@adiant)
* [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/software-developer-blogging/#post-1172275)
* “this plugin” refers to [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-syntax/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-syntax/)
in previous post.
* Having been immersed in another CMS technology before coming to WordPress, I
have come to believe that the Visual Editor problem is not really a “WordPress
thing”, but a general problem with Open Source server-side Visual Editors in
general.
* Before giving up and declaring defeat, I looked at several popular Visual Editors
and they all seem to have a small vocabulary of HTML. And an HTML mode. Dare
to code any HTML not in their small vocabulary and they’ll strip it out, sometimes
immediately, sometimes the next time you switch to Visual mode.
* I ended up with building my own infrastructure where I store raw HTML (or PHP
code) in custom fields, and insert it wherever I want by coding {{customfieldname}}
in the Visual Editor.
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