<p>got a new blog at wordpress few days ago (<a href="http://ghads.wordpress.com" rel="noreferrer">http://ghads.wordpress.com</a>) and I want to post some code snippets now or then. Is there anyway to make it look like code without paying for extra plugins?</p>

[{'answer_id': 81352, 'author': 'Alex Duggleby', 'author_id': 5790, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/5790', 'pm_score': 8, 'selected': True, 'text': '<p>See here: <a href="http://en.support.wordpress.com/code/posting-source-code/" rel="noreferrer">http://en.support.wordpress.com/code/posting-source-code/</a></p>\n\n<p>Wrap your code in these tags: [sourcecode language=\'css\'] .. [/sourcecode]</p>\n\n<p>(or shorter [code lang=\'css\'] .. [/code] )</p>\n\n<p>Note that Visual Editor doesn\'t interpret the tags, you need to click Preview to see how it works.</p>\n\n<p>Available language codes:</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>actionscript3</li>\n<li>bash</li>\n<li>clojure</li>\n<li>coldfusion</li>\n<li>cpp</li>\n<li>csharp</li>\n<li>css</li>\n<li>delphi</li>\n<li>erlang</li>\n<li>fsharp</li>\n<li>diff</li>\n<li>groovy</li>\n<li>html</li>\n<li>javascript</li>\n<li>java</li>\n<li>javafx</li>\n<li>matlab (keywords only)</li>\n<li>objc</li>\n<li>perl</li>\n<li>php</li>\n<li>text</li>\n<li>powershell</li>\n<li>python</li>\n<li>r</li>\n<li>ruby</li>\n<li>scala</li>\n<li>sql</li>\n<li>vb</li>\n<li>xml</li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>Hope that helps.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 81368, 'author': 'Christian Davén', 'author_id': 12534, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/12534', 'pm_score': 2, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>There\'s a &lt;code&gt; html element you can use. Otherwise you could try the <a href="http://hobix.com/textile/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Textile</a> or <a href="http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Markdown</a> syntaxes (I\'m not sure if WordPress.com uses them). Try it out and use the preview function in WordPress to see when you get it right.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 251378, 'author': 'danmayer', 'author_id': 27738, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/27738', 'pm_score': 0, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>If you are hosting your own wordpress blog opposed to on WP.com you can get this functionality by installing this plugin, since it is the same plugin that the WP.com code relies on.</p>\n\n<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-syntax-highlighter/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-syntax-highlighter/</a></p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 457836, 'author': 'Dave Haynes', 'author_id': 7072, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/7072', 'pm_score': 0, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>You can also use the new web app I wrote called BlogTrog CodeWindow -- it\'s powered by Actipro CodeHighlighter.</p>\n\n<p><a href="http://www.blogtrog.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.blogtrog.com</a></p>\n\n<p>It\'s free, should work in all modern browsers, and doesn\'t require you to install anything anywhere. Just paste your code and embed the results.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 9905780, 'author': 'Alexander Kojevnikov', 'author_id': 712, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/712', 'pm_score': 4, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>You can also use <strong><a href="http://hilite.me">hilite.me</a></strong>. It doesn\'t require installation of plugins or JS/CSS files. It\'s also open-source and has an API.</p>\n\n<p><em>Disclaimer: I\'m the developer.</em></p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 28913754, 'author': 'Jan Klimo', 'author_id': 3678689, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/3678689', 'pm_score': 2, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/crayon-syntax-highlighter/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Crayon Syntax Highlighter</a> is an excellent free plugin. I went with that one, but there are many others I came across that may serve the purpose:</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/syntaxhighlighter/screenshots/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Syntax Highlighter Evolved</a></li>\n<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/syntax-highlighter-mt/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Syntax Highlighter MT</a></li>\n<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-prism-syntax-highlighter/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">WP Prism Syntax Highlighter</a></li>\n<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/enlighter/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Enlighter</a></li>\n</ul>\n'}, {'answer_id': 33178846, 'author': 'cellepo', 'author_id': 1357094, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1357094', 'pm_score': 1, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>With my Wordpress.<strong>org</strong> installation, I couldn\'t get the Accepted Answer <a href="http://en.support.wordpress.com/code/posting-source-code/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here</a> to work (<em>not sure if that\'s only expected to work with Wordpress.<strong>com</strong>?</em>)...</p>\n\n<p>I ended up using the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/syntaxhighlighter/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">SyntaxHighlighter</a> plugin instead.</p>\n\n<p><a href="https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/a/7497/78162">With that plugin, at first, your code will appear escaped in \'Preview Changes\' view:  It will appear correctly then after publishing</a>.  I <em>think</em> thereafter publishing it will then appear correctly in \'Preview Changes\' (not 100% about that).</p>\n'}]
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