Well… I’ve been using jsMath on my Wiki, and now I’m keen to use it on my blog. There does not seem to be a WordPress plugin explicitly for jsMath (if anyone knows of one, please let me know), but you don’t need one. Using jsMath from WordPress is actually easy via a different plugin.
The plugin is WP Hooks. This is a plugin that lets you add content to the page head, and that’s just what we want!
- Download and install jsMath on your local server.
- Download, install, and activate WP Hooks in WordPress.
- Configure this and add the following to the header (change the path to point to your local installation of jsMath):
<SCRIPT SRC="jsMath/easy/load.js"></SCRIPT> - Start writing math on pages.
This seems to work fine. Here’s an example. \[\int \sin x\ dx= -\cos\ x + C\]
This was created as a display equation via writing \[\int \sin x\ dx= -\cos\ x + C\] in the page.
Update: As pointed out in the comments, you need to install the fonts on the client (browser) side for things to look really nice and for math rendering to be fast; otherwise you get a warning and bitmap fonts. It’s really easy; the instructions are here.
April 23rd, 2009 at 7:19 pm
Comments, too! \[x\in \mathcal{S}\]
May 4th, 2009 at 2:03 am
[...] I got WordPress up and running. Using the method described here I got jsMath enabled, as you can see here [ frac{partial^2 u}{partial t^2} = c^2nabla^2u [...]
June 5th, 2009 at 2:41 pm
Thanks for the information! I had to install jsMath fonts to get it work though.
December 20th, 2009 at 10:18 am
I can’t seem to get it to work. Check the source off my pages, and you will see that the script call is there. I currently have it via the “In the Loop” plugin because I am fooling around with themes. But, it doesn’t work when I explicitly put it in the header either.
jsMath definitely works on my server: http://arielbalter.com/mathtest.html
An html copy of this page is in the blog, and none of it renders.
I’d love any advice or suggestions. Thanks, Ariel