Riley McArdle

As you may have noticed, I have posted some bits of KiXtart code here on my blog and the code is prettied up to be easy to read similar to an IDE.

To do this, I use a plugin for WordPress called WP-Syntax. WP-Syntax is a wrapper around a library called GeSHi that performs syntax highlighting for programming and scripting languages.

By default GeSHi supports dozens of programming languages (see their site for a full list) but it doesn’t support KiXtart. So, I wrote a custom language file for GeSHi to add support for KiXtart.

Download: geshi-kixtart.zip (ZIP - 2.61 KB)

After installing WP-Syntax, just extract kixtart.php from the above ZIP file and copy it to the /wp-content/plugins/wp-syntax/geshi/geshi directory on your WordPress server.

To include KiXtart code in a post, surround your code with <pre lang=”kixtart”> and </pre> tags.

I have submitted this language file to the GeSHi developers so hopefully it should be added as a standard language in upcoming versions of GeSHi and WP-Syntax.