HOWTO post C++ code in Wordpress

Generally speaking, Code Autoescape is the most popular plugin to quote source code in WordPress, which has officially killed some competitors. Just wrap the code within code block, the plugin would convert the HTML-reserved symbols for you. Unfortunately, it does not handle > well, while stream operation or template is essential for the C++ program.

CodeColorizer is an online service that use old-styled HTML tags to auto escape the C++ source code to HTML, and you get free, mandatory bonus, syntax highlighting. However, the “smart” wordpress would eat some tag, so the whole style is messed up with unnecessary bold or italic style decoration. C++2HTML does the same job in advanced manner, The HTML code rendered is XHTML 1.1 compliant, and the users may tune the stylesheet to determine syntax highlight style. That is also the solution used in all C++ Style Study Note.

UPDATE: until recently, I found another WordPress plugin: code snippet. This plugin claims that they can render more than 50 programming languages powered by GeSHi. I have to disable the WYSIWG editor in order to have more control of the raw HTML code.