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I’ve been struggling for a while about how to embed PHP, HTML, or CSS code into WordPress posts so that they look good and are easy to understand.

I found this list of 12 WordPress Plugins to Display and Highlight Code.

I researched a few of them and finally settled on SyntaxHighlighter Evolved, which was simple to install, easy to use with short codes, formats nicely, and seems to have a large existing user base.

In your posts, you can simply use [php] and [/php] shortcodes around your actual PHP code and it does it’s trick. You can review the plugin page for the many various types of languages/syntax that are available.

I will spare your eyes and use this for all embedded code from now on.