WP-Gistpen

A self-hosted alternative to putting your code snippets on Gist.

You use WordPress because you want control over your writing. Why give Gist or Codepen your code snippets? WP-Gistpen is a self-hosted replacement for your WordPress blog.

Features include:

• Revision saving

• Gist import & export

• PrismJS syntax highlighting

• Prism-based text editor

• oEmbed snippet embedding

Fixed

• Fixed rendering output with JSX language

1.2.0

7. 6. 0.

There is plenty of time, but this is coming.

Added

• Added slug to repo API

• Add copy shortcode button to editor

• Add API pagination to Repo resource

• Bump prism-themes and add new themes

Fixed

• Updated JS dependencies

• Fix button alignment on editor controls

1.1.6

Fixed

• Busted deploy

1.1.5

Fixed

• Add PHP version requirement

• This was previously handled in code only, but will now appear in wp.org

• Render BE error messages in UI

• Remove JSS for smaller bundle

1.1.4

Fixed

• Added label to filename input

• Bumped dependencies

1.1.3

Fixed

• Escape filename on FE & BE

• Accessibility improvements

• Add line numbers to the editor

• Allow alt + tab to escape the editor

• Improve border of focused controls

• Fix toolbar colors

[1.1.2][] – 2019-05-27

• Rewrite & stabilize FE into TypeScript & latest brookjs

[1.1.1][] – 2018-06-28

• Fixed buggy deploy

[1.1.0][] – 2018-06-22

• Upgrade the editor into React

• Remove LightNCandy

• First step towards supporting php-5.3 again

• Tighten up Flowtypes

• Display spinner when saving

[1.0.3][] – 2018-06-09

• More editor CSS fixes

• Generate languages.json instead of maintaining manually

• Validate blobs in API endpoint

• Requires filename now

• Order Runs in descending order

• Fix demo code indentation

• Simplify Blob component implementation

[1.0.2][] – 2018-04-03

• Fix CSS display in editor

[1.0.1][] – 2018-04-03

• Fix deployment scripts

• The old scripts resulted in a botched deployment with missing files. This readds them.

[1.0.0][] – 2018-03-26

Almost three years in the making!

Removed

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Database migration from old versions

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If you’re on the latest version of WP-Gistpen, you should have no problems. 0+ anyway. We are going to remove the Migration code because it’ll allow us to remove a lot of old code that is currently only being used by it.

0 or the database migration will not be performed correctly. Fresh installs should have no problems either.

Added

• Completely rewritten from the ground up

• New internal architecture

• Built on Jaxion, WordPress framework

• Improved Database layer & use of Models

• WP-API integration

• This requires an upgrade to WordPress 4.6+.

• New code snippet editor

• Custom snippet editor

• Built on brookjs, Prism, & React.js

• New Prism plugins:

• Show invisibles: Display tabs and line returns as characters

• Show language: Display the language in the embed

• Copy-to-clipboard: Display button to copy code to clipboard

• Supports all Prism languages & built-in Prism themes + bonus from prism-themes

Fixed

• Fixed code sample display on mobile

• Fixed display on custom post type pages

• Fixed bug where adding two files would only save one at a time

• Tighten up revision saving logic

[0.5.8] – 2015-07-26

Fixed

• Fixed a bug introduced in WordPress 4.2.3 where cap checks fail for edit_post on a post_id of 0.

• Also loosened a couple checks because null values were being cast to 0.

[0.5.7] – 2015-05-23

Fixed

• Use wpdb to get the posts table for alternate prefix and Multisite compatibility (thanks @janizde!)

[0.5.6] – 2015-02-17

Fixed

• Logic bugs raised by Travis

[0.5.5] – 2015-02-15

Fixed

• Fixed syncing bug, renabled everything

• So sorry about the multiple releases. Ran into the problem after deploying, and didn’t want anyone’s DB to get out-of-sync. Everything looks good now, but let me know if you experience issues.

[0.5.4] – 2015-02-14

Fixed

• Disable importing/exporting en masse until we fix export/sync bug

[0.5.2] – 2015-02-14

Fixed

• Add new database migration to fix Gist exports of pre-0.5.0 Gistpens

[0.5.0] – 2015-02-14

Added

• MAJOR FEATURE: Gist interoperability

• Gistpens can be exported to Gist on a case-by-case basis

• Most Gists can be imported into Gistpen

• Unsupported languages get changed to “Plaintext” – sorry!

• New Feature: Revisions and history

• Bad tests for everything:/

• New languages:

• Actionscript

• Applescript

• Dart

• Eiffel

• Erlang

• Gherkin

• Git

• Haml

• Handlebars

• Jade

• LaTeX

• LESS

• Markdown

• Matlab

• NASM

• Perl

• Powershell

• R

• Rust

• Scheme

• Smarty

Changed

• CMB -> CMB2

• Massive reorganization wit namespacing + autoloading

• Unminified scripts enqueued when WP_SCRIPT_DEBUG is true

• ACE editor rewritten in Backbone.js

• Saving and updating all done with AJAX

• Menu icon pen -> code

• Improved.org deployment process (No more dumbass “forgot to minify js” commits/releases)

Fixed

• Deleting bug

• Files were being left behind when Zips were deleted

• Strings are now translatable

• All languages cleaned up and verified working

• HTML & XML are split again

[0.4.0] – 2014-10-03

Added

• MAJOR FEATURE: Multiple files can be created in a single Gistpen

• First step towards Gist compatibility

• The database gets upgraded to account for this, so PLEASE make a backup before you upgrade

• ACE editor

Fixed

• Properly escaping content display

[0.3.1] – 2014-08-03

Fixed

• Forgot to minify JavaScripts

[0.3.0] – 2014-08-03

Changed

• Use PrismJS over SyntaxHighlighter

Added

• Options page

• Theme switching

• Line numbers plugin

• Line-highlighting

• Link to lines

• Languages:

• C

• Coffeescript

• C#

• Go

• HTTP

• ini

• HTML/Markup (XML has been migrated here)

• Objective-C

• Swift

• Twig

Removed

• Languages (*If you need any of these languages readded, please open an issue on GitHub to discuss.)

• AppleScript

• ActionScript3

• ColdFusion

• CPP

• Delphi

• Diff

• Erlang

• JavaFX

• Perl

• Vb

[0.2.3] – 2014-07-28

Fixed

• Uninstall/reinstall language deleting bug

[0.2.2] – 2014-07-28

Fixed

• Fix mis-enqueued scripts (again!)

[0.2.1] – 2014-07-27

Fixed

• Fix mis-enqueued scripts

[0.2.0] – 2014-07-26

Added

• “Insert Gistpen” button in TinyMCE

Updated

• Gistpen icon

• Code organization

• README

• Build script

[0.1.2] – 2014-07-17

Fixed

• More bugfixes

[0.1.1] – 2014-07-17

Fixed

• Autoloader

Changed

• Use defined constant for dir_path

[0.1.0] – 2014-07-17

Added

• Gistpen post type

• Embeddable in posts via shortcode

• Use SyntaxHighlighter to display