Latex Code Not Turning Into Equations…Very Newbie

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  thelastbag · Member · Mar 2, 2014 at 8:20 pm

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  Hi,

  I’m interested in putting some equations on my site. I pasted this example

  $latex ihbarfrac{partial}{partial t}left|Psi(t)right>=Hleft|Psi(t)right>$

  straight from the WP documentation, but it just shows up as is–doesn’t turn into MATH! I tried entering it in the Display tab and the Text tab.

  My silly newbie question is this: Do I need to install one of the LaTeX plug-ins. or is this supposed to just work within plain old WordPress?

  Thanks,

  –Danny

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Mar 3, 2014 at 3:00 am

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  Can you show me the documentation that you are working from?

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  thelastbag · Member · Mar 3, 2014 at 3:21 am

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  I’m looking at this:

  LaTeX

  (No mention of a plug-in.)

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Mar 3, 2014 at 6:36 pm

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  What is the URL for your WordPress site?

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  thelastbag · Member · Mar 4, 2014 at 12:41 am

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  I just want to know if I need a plug in to make latex code like this

  $latex ihbarfrac{partial}{partial t}left|Psi(t)right>=Hleft|Psi(t)right>$

  turn into lovely math, or if it’s supposed to work without any plug-ins.

  Here’s how it looks now (just a test page):

  http://dannyarsenault.com/backflip/latex-test/

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Mar 4, 2014 at 2:05 am

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  So, Latex works without any plugins on WordPress.com sites. The reason that I asked about your URL was to check and make sure that you were trying to get Latex to work on a WordPress.com site. However, your site is a self-hosted WordPress site using the software available at WordPress.org. If you aren’t familiar, here is a link that gives a quick overview of the differences between WordPress.com and WordPress.org

  WordPress.com vs. WordPress.org

  The best place for self-hosted WordPress site help is the support forums on WordPress.org:

  http://wordpress.org/support/