I had a perl script code snippet I wanted to put in a post.
I tried the <pre> tag, the <code> tag, nothing would work, so I gave up and moved it into a separate file with an <a href= > tag. But the webserver refused to allow the file to be accessed even once I removed the path to perl, removed the .pl extension, gzipped it – nothing would serve as a workaround.
I went to google and searched for “code snippet wordpress” and “how to place code in blogpost wordpress” and found references to plugins. I went into the new plugins section and started trying them.
The plug in that worked was “WP Code Highlight”. Using the <code> tag resulted in boring stuff, but the <pre> tag created a syntax highlighted version that is very readable. See Transfer MoinMoin Wiki to Mediawiki
–doug