Contributors: JamesDiGioia
Donate link: http://jamesdigioia.com/
Tags: gist, code snippets, codepen
Requires at least: 3.9
Tested up to: 4.2.3
Stable tag: 0.5.8
License: GPLv2
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html

A self-hosted alternative to putting your code snippets on Gist.

You use WordPress because you want control over your writing. Why give Gist or Codepen your code snippets? WP-Gistpen is a self-hosted replacement for your WordPress blog.

Features include:

• Revision saving
• Gist import & export
• ACE editor
• PrismJS syntax highlighting
• Supported Languages
  • Assembly (NASM)
  • ActionScript
  • AppleScript
  • Bash
  • C
  • Coffeescript
  • C#
  • CSS
  • Dart
  • Eiffel
  • Erlang
  • Gherkin/Cucumber
  • Git/Diff
  • Go
  • Groovy
  • HAML
  • Handlebars
  • HTML
  • HTTP
  • ini
  • Jade
  • Java
  • JavaScript
  • LaTeX
  • LESS
  • Markdown
  • Matlab
  • Objective-C
  • Perl
  • PHP
  • PlainText
  • PowerShell
  • Python
  • R
  • Rust
  • Ruby
  • Sass
  • Scala
  • Scheme
  • Smarty
  • Sql
  • Swift
  • Twig
  • XML

1. Navigate to the 'Add New' in the plugins dashboard
2. Search for 'wp-gistpen'
3. Click 'Install Now'
4. Activate the plugin on the Plugin dashboard

1. Download wp-gistpen.zip from the WordPress plugins repository.
2. Navigate to the 'Add New' in the plugins dashboard
3. Navigate to the 'Upload' area
4. Select wp-gistpen.zip from your computer
5. Click 'Install Now'
6. Activate the plugin in the Plugin dashboard

1. Download wp-gistpen.zip
2. Extract the wp-gistpen directory to your computer
3. Upload the wp-gistpen directory to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
4. Activate the plugin in the Plugin dashboard

First, revisions need to be enabled. They can be disabled in wp-config.php, but WP-Gistpen relies on them to keep everything in sync. A future version will remove this dependency, but it's currently required.

Additionally, your PHP version should be 5.3+. If you're a developer using 5.2, may God have mercy on your soul.

To add a new Gistpen, go to Gistpens -> Add New, and paste in your code. You can enable or disable Gist syncing on a a per-Gistpen basis.

You can also create and insert a Gistpen directly into your post/page from the visual editor by clicking the code button. From the pop-up, select one of the recent Gistpens, search your Gistpens, or create a new one by pasting in your code and clicking "Insert".

After inserting the shortcode, your code will appear in your post, highlighted by PrismJS.

To highlight a specific line, add highlight="^^", where ^^ is a line number or range of numbers you want highlighted, like this (via PrismJS documentation):

• A single number refers to the line with that number
• Ranges are denoted by two numbers, separated with a hyphen (-)
• Multiple line numbers or ranges are separated by commas.
• Whitespace is allowed anywhere and will be stripped off.

Examples:

• highlight="5": The 5th line
• highlight="1-5": Lines 1 through 5
• highlight="1,4": Line 1 and line 4
• highlight="1-2,5,9-20": Lines 1 through 2, line 5, lines 9 through 20

Offset does not yet work but will be added soon.

You can link to a specific line in your Gistpen by linking to #gistpen-{gistpen-slug}.{lines}. The lines don't need to be highlighted in advance for the link to work, and they will be highlighted when the link is clicked. The {lines} should match the same format as above.

1. Login to GitHub.
2. Go to Settings -> Applications.
3. Under "Personal access tokens", click "Generate New Token."
4. Give it a name, click create
   • The default settings work, but make you sure you at least include the gist and user scopes.
5. Copy the generated token.
6. Paste it into the settings page.
7. ???
8. Profit!

Gistpens can be exported en masse from the Gistpens settings page. All Gistpens will be synced, only if the Gistpen hasn't been synced yet, but regardless of whether syncing for the Gistpen is enabled. Syncing will then be enabled on the exported Gistpens.

If you do not want this, you can enable/disable Gistpen syncing on a per-Gistpen basis. Just click the checkbox on the Gistpen edit page, and any changes will be reflected on the corresponding Gist on update. If you uncheck that box, future changes will not be reflected on Gist.

Eventually, I hope to make this plugin interoperable with Gist, allowing you to import your current Gists, fork other people's Gists into your Gistpen, and publishing your Gistpens to Gist.

Additionally, I want to make Gistpens embeddable on other websites the same way you can embed Gists, but both of those larger features are likely a long way off.

Essentially, the idea is to build a fully-featured Gist clone in WordPress

The Insert Gistpen dialog after you click the pen in the visual editor.

Default theme - How your code will appear in your post.

Twilight theme with line numbers enabled. Check out all the themes at PrismJS.com.

The current options page.

The options page with a token saved.

Gistpen editor screen with Ace editor