There are lots of available plugin out there to embed Gist code easily in WordPress. At WPSpeak.com, we’ve tested few other plugins before finally found what can be claimed as the best plugin to embed Gist on WordPress site.
Introducing GistPress. This plugin is developed by two well-known developers in the community, Brady Vercher, the man behind AudioThemes and Gary Jones, a core contributor of Genesis Framework.
We all know how important caching system is. Embedding media from a third party site like Gist will slow down your site. However, with the help of proper caching system, the impact on your site loading speed can greatly be reduced. Besides caching, GistPres comes will tons of awesome features:
- Embed your Gist via shortcode or oEmbed
- Display all files from one single link
- Display only specific file from one single link
- Display specific lines within a file
- Highlights a line from a specific file
- Highlights few lines from a specific file
This plugin is available from Github and can be downloaded for free. For those of you who are interested in this plugin, please see the official page on Github as there are many additional information such as filters available, shortcode attributes and some examples on how to use this plugin.
We’re currently using this plugin on our site and highly recommend it to our readers. Is there any better way to embed Gist in WordPress? Feel free to drop your suggestions in the comment section below.
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