Fixing SyntaxHighligher plugin in WordPress Blass2 theme

Tips · 06 Aug 2009

Yesterday I installed and activated Blass2 theme for this blog. I liked this theme as it was very simple and free from any extra graphics. After installing the theme, I discovered that “SyntaxHighlighter Evolved” plugin which I use to display code segments, was not working. I searched for other themes which are similar to blass2 and can run syntaxhighlighter plugin, but couldn’t find anything better. Finally, this is how I fixed it. To fix it, I had to edit ‘footer.php’ of Blass2 theme using inbuilt theme editor of WordPress (Appearance > Editor). The original ‘footer.php’ looked like this:

<div id="footer">

 <p>&copy; <?php echo date("Y")?> <!-- Please leave this line intact --><?php if (is_home()) : ?><?php bloginfo('name'); ?> | Theme <a href="http://1000ff.de/wordpress-theme-blass-english-version/">Blass</a> by <a href="http://1000ff.de/">1000ff</a><?php else : ?>Theme Blass by 1000ff<?php endif; ?> | Powered by <a href="http://wordpress.org/">WordPress</a></p>

</div>

To fix the plugin, you need to add a call to ‘wp_footer’ function in ‘footer.php’.

<div id="footer">

 <p>&copy; <?php echo date("Y")?> <!-- Please leave this line intact --><?php if (is_home()) : ?><?php bloginfo('name'); ?> | Theme <a href="http://1000ff.de/wordpress-theme-blass-english-version/">Blass</a> by <a href="http://1000ff.de/">1000ff</a><?php else : ?>Theme Blass by 1000ff<?php endif; ?> | Powered by <a href="http://wordpress.org/">WordPress</a></p>
<?php wp_footer() ?>
</div>

After making this change, syntaxhighlighter plugin started working again.