Github gists are a great way to create and share code snippets, and many developers are using Github. Today, I’m exited to share this very handy code snippet which allow you to embed a Github gist on your blog, simply by pasting the gist url.

Paste the following code into your functions.php file. Once done, simply paste the URL of a Github gist into a post or page. The gist will be automatically embedded in your blog.

 **  * Usage:  * Paste a gist link into a blog post or page and it will be embedded eg:  * https://gist.github.com/2926827  *  * If a gist has multiple files you can select one using a url in the following format:  * https://gist.github.com/2926827?file=embed-gist.php  */ wp_embed_register_handler( 'gist', '/https://gist.github.com/(d+)(?file=.*)?/i', 'wp_embed_handler_gist' );  function wp_embed_handler_gist( $matches, $attr, $url, $rawattr ) {  	$embed = sprintf( 			'<script src="https://gist.github.com/%1$s.js%2$s"></script>', 			esc_attr($matches[1]), 			esc_attr($matches[2]) 			);  	return apply_filters( 'embed_gist', $embed, $matches, $attr, $url, $rawattr ); } 

Thanks to Robert O’Rourke for this handy piece of code!