title: Displaying code in a wordpress.com blog link: https://onemoretech.wordpress.com/2013/07/17/displaying-code-in-a-wordpress-com-blog/ author: phil2nc description: post_id: 6080 created: 2013/07/17 15:35:31 created_gmt: 2013/07/17 19:35:31 comment_status: closed post_name: displaying-code-in-a-wordpress-com-blog status: publish post_type: post

How my code gets rendered on these pages is important to me. With most of the over 1,000 posts here being code-rich, that has made the transition to wordpress.com particularly painful. Those who have kept WordPress blogs on a paid hosting account generally have the freedom to install whatever themes and plugins they want, and to modify the shipping style sheets to get just the right look. I lost all that when I switched this blog over to wordpress.com, and now in addition to fixing image and page links I have to deal with a metric ton of code snippets whose default formatting leaves much to be desired. The task is not impossible, of course. In fact wordpress.com does have a simple default code formatting directive that renders code quite nicely: [code language="perl"] your code here [/code] There are a variety of options available for this method that can be found in the support article Posting Source Code. All I need to do now is figure out how to bulk change all my

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