I often post code in my blog posts, so the SyntaxHighlighter by is very useful. But there are several plug-ins for WordPress, the question is which one is the most comfortable and has the most configuration options:

• Google Syntax Highlighter for WordPress
• Syntax Highlighter and Code Colorizer for WordPress
• SyntaxHighlighter Evolved
• SyntaxHighlighter2

Offline blogging tool support

When I post technical blog posts with code in it, then I prefer the way over an offline blogging tool. Currently I use for this use case Windows Live Writer, also because it is free. But when you use a such tool, you should have good support for writing code and support for the SyntaxHighlighter. For Windows Live Writer there exists several plug-ins for the SyntaxHighlighter:

• Code snippet with SyntaxHighlighter support for Windows Live Writer
• Windows Live Writer Source Code plug-in
• Windows Live Writer Syntax Highlighter

Unfortunately some of those plug-ins aren’t very well tested, but to add code to a blog posts they do their job.

Conclusion

After testing the several plug-ins for WordPress and Windows Live Writer, I prefer currently the following plug-ins:

• WordPress plug-in: SyntaxHighlighter Evolved
• Windows Live Writer plug-in: Windows Live Writer Syntax Highlighter