Easier Syntax Highlighting, Downloading WordPress.com Email Followers, and Jekyll Tools

Today I learned:

Easier syntax highlighting with Jekyll

So it turns out that there is an even easier way to do syntax highlighting in Jekyll than I described last week. Jekyll 3 has Rouge highlighting built right in.

To use it:

{% highlight liquid %} Put your foo here bar end foo {% endhighlight %}

I need to go back though my previous posts and remove the Pygments highlighting then uninstall the plugin. Rouge supports fewer languages than Pygments, but Rouge supports all of the languages I use, plus Liquid and Markdown, which Pygments doesnât.

Downloading WordPress.com Email Subscribers

I learned today that it is possible to download a CSV of the email subscribers to your WordPress.com blog (or WordPress.org blog powered by WordPress.comâs Jetpack Archived Link). They donât make it obvious, but the option is there:

Go to https://wordpress.com/stats/follows/email and log in.

Select the site you want to download your email subscribers for.

At the bottom of the list, you should see an icon and download button:

Download all email followers as CSV

Jekyll Tools

Last night I cleaned up some of my Jekyll templates and put them on Github with instructions for how to use them. Check them out:

A template for adding social metadata (Open Graph and Twitter Cards) to posts and pages

A template for adding Disqus comments

A template for listing posts by tag