Mitch Viner

Just wanted to talk real quickly about some updates I made to my site today. Nothing too major, just putting some of the finishing touches on the site construction itself before turning my focus towards building the actual content.

Today I took some time to go back through previous posts and do a little clean-up. I also needed to add SyntaxHighlighter to make my code snippets that I have, and the many more to come easier to read. I've used SyntaxHighlighter via a plugin in WordPress before and really liked the way it works. However, with WordPress you just install the plug-in and it works. Which is great, if you're using WordPress. However, I'm using SilverStripe and as you likely know, if you're reading this, installing plug-ins for SilverStripe is completely different than WordPress as you typically need to have some knowledge of what it is you're doing. So here's what I did to get SyntaxHighlighter installed and working for this SilverStripe installation: