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How to add a code box in free WordPress blog

Frustratingly, WordPress free blog doesn’t have a code box facility, or not one that I could find. Sometimes it’s handy to put a code box for code snippets or commands to be run a command line, like this

Code:

#!/bin/bash
# rsync script
rsync -avh --exclude="*.bak" /home/user/Documents/ /media/diskid/user_backup/Documents/

Here’s how this is done :

Code:

<table width="400" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" bgcolor="cyan">
<tbody>
<tr>
<th align="left"><code>Code:</code></th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>
#!/bin/bash
# rsync script
rsync -avh --exclude="*.bak" /home/user/Documents/ /media/diskid/user_backup/Documents/
<br class="blank" />
</code></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>

But … Before you put your own code in remember html looks for < and > for tags, so must replace “<” with “&lt;” and “>” with “&gt”, so for instance “<tr>” would become “&lt;tr&gt;”

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