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A couple of days ago I released WP Chili, a simple WordPress plugin that installs Chili into WordPress and let’s you add client-side code highlighting to your posts, with extreme simplicity.

After activating WP Chili, it’s just a matter of wrapping your snippets into code or pre-code elements, with the programming language of the snippet as a class, like in the following example:

<pre><code class="php">
echo &quot;Hello $name&quot;;
</code></pre>

When the post reaches your readers, the snippet is unescaped by their browser and highlighted by Chili 1.9 (downloaded from your server). Your readers will see the example rendered as:

echo "Hello $name";

Changes

• An updated bookmarklet
• An updated GreaseMonkey userscript
• Added support for many more code snippets (hopefully all)
• IE7 and FF2 work fine

Known Issues

• Sometimes a website (http://developer.mozilla.org) uses an old version of Prototype that makes jQuery fail even if jQuery.noConflict() is used.
• Sometimes a browser (IE7) cannot load all needed modules in the given sequence, and you get some JavaScript errors.
  Fix: reload the page and click the bookmarklet again (now the modules will be loaded from your browser cache).

HotChili is now this bookmarklet: HotChili.

Previous release was for Firefox plus GreaseMonkey, but as a bookmarklet you can use it from any browser.

Known issues

Sometimes a browser (IE) cannot load all needed modules in sequence, and you get some javascript errors. The simple fix is to reload the page and click the bookmarklet again. From now on the modules should be available in the browser cache.