Those of you who use WordPress will probably know that there are countless plugins to achieve just that. That in and of itself is a problem, however. Which plugins do you choose?

For mathematics, you can visit:

/wp-admin/admin.php?page=jetpack_modules

and activate Beautiful Math in JetPack from there. You’ll need JetPack, of course, but I recommend you install it regardless of this feature, as it houses many useful features.

At that point, you’ll be able to embed mathematical formulas by specifying code between [ latex ]xⁿ + yⁿ = zⁿ[ /latex ] tags (without the surrounding spaces of course).

For code syntax highlighting, I like to use the plugin Crayon Syntax Highlighter.

You can see what its output looks like in the post I mentioned above.

I realize not everyone uses WordPress, but I thought I’d share a quick and handy tip here today for those who do.

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My first assumption was that this was some sort of hash used by the WP Super Cache plugin, but even disabling that didn’t get rid of the issue. After investigating the code a bit, I was able to track the issue to a window.location.hash call in a JavaScript file that’s used by the Add This plugin.

Comparing the Add This settings of my various blogs, it immediately became clear that this annoyance was caused by having Track address bar shares checked. Unchecking that option got rid of the extra #. hash string.

Here are the full Add This settings I now use for this blog:

This enables Facebook, Twitter, Google+ counters within posts and pages, but not on the homepage or on other archives/categories.

Should you be experiencing this same problem, unchecking that particular setting, as you can see here, is all you need to do to remedy the issue.

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