Adding Code Snippets to Your WordPress Posts

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From time to time, I’ll be including code snippets of various programming languages in my posts. And I thought you might find it interesting to know how these are being created.

There are a few different methods for creating and highlighting code snippets. We can refer to them as the <code> method, the <pre> method, and the plugin method.

And in fact, I used some special codes to write the <code> and <pre> in the previous sentence…but we’ll get to that in just a minute. Let’s start with the main methods for introducing code snippets.