Help posting Gist from WordPress free account

desertrat1981 · Member · Mar 10, 2014 at 11:05 pm
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I know wordpress has some built in functionality for posting a Gist.
What I am trying to figure out is how to post a single file within a Gist.
For example I have a Gist with 10 files linked by the girst url with the gist ID.

How do I post a single file at a time?

I’m using the online free account so I cant use 3rd party Javascript plugins that would allow me to do this. However I would imagine that this should be possible since there is Gist support and seems like a super common thing to need to do (explain each file as you post them, rather than explain each file then dump all the files in your gist at once into your blog)…

It would also be nice if there was a way to use some kind of expandable/shrinkable node container for your gist so that the code could be minimized and maximized as the user reads it?

Thanks,
Jusitn

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hfzrhmn · Member · Mar 11, 2014 at 12:51 am
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Hi Justin,

This feels like something that should be possible, but the documentation page (http://en.support.wordpress.com/gist/) mentions nothing about Gist files.

Using examples from your site, I tried adding
```
https://gist.github.com/javasavvy/2de10435e6fd87556118#file-hammerimpl
```
and
```
[gist]2de10435e6fd87556118#file-hammerimpl[/gist]
```
to try to target individual file, but they didn’t work. So looks like we’re out of luck here.
desertrat1981 · Member · Mar 11, 2014 at 1:56 am
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haha yea, I tried that too, but the anchor doesn’t work
I found a plug-in that can do it, but I guess that does not help since I don’t believe my online account can install plugins either.

Gist GitHub Shortcode

Someone told me the free tumbler site can do this, I might have to look into that and possibly migrate over if it does. Seems silly but it makes my blog just about worthless without this feature.
desertrat1981 · Member · Mar 11, 2014 at 9:14 pm
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Bummer I guess there is really not much support for Gist with wordpress free. Really disappointed I went with wordpress now :(

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