I have been planning to post some Tutorials page on my blog for quite some time, but I haven’t posted any yet. For the simple reason that, I haven’t found a suitable plug-in that highlights the source code that I’ll be posting.
With the help of search engines, I found a few candidates and tested it on my local copy, but it’s does not fit to my satisfaction. Only when I searched from WordPress Plug-ins directory was I able to find a suitable code highlighter to use. It’s the WP-Syntax plug-ins, well without further delay, I tested it on my local, and it was indeed what i needed. I uploaded it my online blog, and presto here it is!
PHP Code Test
<div id="foo"> function foo() { echo "Hello World!\\n"; } </div>
Java Code Test
public class Hello { public static void main(String[] args) { System.out.println("Hello World!"); } }
HTML Code Test
<html> <head> <title>Hello World</title> </head> <body> <h1 align="center">Hello World<hr></h1> <p align="justify"> The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog Near the Bank of Hudson River. </p> </body> </html>
JavaScript Code Test
function hello(){ alert("Hello World!!~"); }
And a lot more languages are supported. I’m glad I have found this handy plug-in and now I can start with my Tutorials ^_^. I’m finalizing my Tutorials Page layout and content, I’ll upload it in there when it’s ready. And if your wondering what kind of content does the tutorial page will have. It’s all the basics I guess, a small of xhtml/css, C/C++ Programming, PHP, MySQL, JavaScript and anything I can think of under the sun. But it will consist primarily of the first three above.
Now, proceeding to layout!
Well, what do you know, it’s has been long and this update is over long due. But better late than never. If you haven’t updated your WordPress Blog yet, head over to you Dashboard, Tools>Upgrade and it will automatically upgrade your existing WP Blog.
Just a fair warning, if your WP Blog is below 2.7, you will have to download and re-install everything from scratch, sorry. Just head over to WordPress.org and grab your share of the pie.
Download directly from here

WordPress
Well, I’ve been monitoring this software release from it’s beta, and I believe I have published the beta release in my blog. And to think that I have been busy for a while and was not able to check on the updates of this software. What did I missed? Well, I you hadn’t known also, after the beta was up they already released RC1 and not long after that, the official version is already published!
Yep, you heard it right! WordPress 2.8 the official release is available for everybody to use. If you haven’t known the features of the new release, head over to the WordPress Blog.
Grab yourself a copy and test it now!