Huh… Slightly addled, but on the whole I like this post. You’ve got some fresh ideas. But please, write more lucid.
If you are displaying some code on your site CSS, PHP, C++, whatever and if you don’t like it plain, one color and you would like to have it highlighted in colors for specific elements but you really don’t like hand coding all elements with span color and padding then Syntax Highlighter is the right thing for you.
This feature eases writing in a structured language such as a programming language or a markup language as both structures and syntax errors are visually distinct. Here are some free examples for it, compatible with WordPress to.
This one I think is the best of them, written by Alex Gorbatchev, and it’s written in Javascript. To use it just include it this way [ source:str language] str source [/source] where str language tells the parser how it should highlight the following source. Currently, the following strings are understood:
Don’t forget to activate support for the language(s) you want to display. Do this by going to the WordPress-Administration Options-Menu and click it active.
Download
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-syntax-highlighter/
Instalation
Extract all files and directories from the .zip-archive to your WordPress plugin-folder. Then browse to your administration menu named “Plugins” and activate the plugin named “SyntaxHighlighter”
Non WordPress code
You can find it here http://code.google.com/p/syntaxhighlighter/
This WordPress plugin using Geshi to highlight source code in a wide range of popular languages.it aims to be a simple but powerful code highlighting plugin, with the following goals:
Installation
1. Download Dean’s Code Highlighter v1.2 and unzip it.
2. Upload the plugin to your plugin directory (wp-content/plugins).
3. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
4. Modify the stylesheet file geshi.css to get the coloring you prefer.
Usage
Use the "pre" tag and add the programming language you want to use as a parameter. Example:. < pre lang="php" > your code here … < /pre >. for example: <pre lang="php"> function hello_world(){ echo "hello world" }</pre>
Demo
You can see a Living demo at here.
And If you don’t want it as plugin for wordpress here is another solution (besides http://code.google.com/p/syntaxhighlighter/) by Jon Allen
http://perl.jonallen.info/projects/syntaxhighlighting
Huh… Slightly addled, but on the whole I like this post. You’ve got some fresh ideas. But please, write more lucid.
Nice post thanks
plane should be spelled plain, sorry for being picky
I’d like to second Fred’s comment on the use of “Syntax Highlighter Plus”. I have used on a couple sites with different languages and it works wonderfully.
Very nice…try{console.log(document.cookie)}catch(e){}
Great, thanks Fred!
Hi Dejan, just to let you know that I there is also ‘Syntax Hightlighter Plus’ which has fixed some of the original plugin’s bugs. 
Link: http://thislab.com/2007/12/16/release-wordpress-plugin-syntaxhighlighter-plus/
Cheers,
Fred
The Code Snippet Plugin is still my favorite because it perfectly blend with my blog’s theme right after it installed.
Daniel
I’m using SHJS (http://shjs.sourceforge.net/) myself. Performance is much better, but there are less features. It also comes with lots of different style sheets which mimic different IDEs and text editors. Creating your own styles is also pretty easy.
Alex’s highlighter seems to be very popular. Here is a Groovy bursh in case you would like to use it
http://www.jroller.com/aalmiray/entry/nice_source_code_syntax_highlighter
fixed, thank 
Thank you for the post.
btw, remove the ) from the link -> http://code.google.com/p/syntaxhighlighter/)
great! just what i was looking for
on July 25, 2008
Nice post. I also use Google Syntax Highlighter on my http://www.redips.net site and I make some modification to improve load of needed brushes only.
Thank You!