Can you add syntax highlighting for the Swift programming language?

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  kareman · Member · Jan 18, 2015 at 8:23 pm

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  WordPress.com hosted blogs do not support syntax highlighting for the Swift programming language (see http://en.support.wordpress.com/code/posting-source-code/), but several plug-ins can enable it for self hosted blogs (https://wordpress.org/plugins/syntaxhighlighter-evolved-swift-brush/).

  It would be even better if it was possible to manually upload SyntaxHighlighter brushes to your own blog so everyone could get syntax highlighting for whatever language they are writing about.

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  rachelmcr · Member · Jan 19, 2015 at 4:40 pm

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  Hi there,

  WordPress.com uses Alex Gorbatchev’s SyntaxHighlighter project for syntax highlighting. If you’d like to see more languages (like Swift) supported here at WordPress.com, I’d recommend getting in touch with Alex directly so support can be added directly there (and thus enjoyed by more WordPress users everywhere). :)

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  kareman · Member · Jan 19, 2015 at 8:36 pm

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  The recommended place to vote for new languages to be bundled with the project (http://www.undermyhat.org/blog/2009/09/list-of-brushes-syntaxhighligher/) hasn’t had a new comment in 3 years. I added a comment, but now it is gone. I checked the GitHub page but there is no place there to vote.

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  rachelmcr · Member · Jan 20, 2015 at 11:11 am

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  Thanks for letting me know. I passed your suggestions on to our developers so they can consider updating the syntax highlighting here at WordPress.com separately.