Writing LaTeX in WordPress

To type a formula in WordPress type $ latex < Your LaTex code> $ without the signs < and >.

For example $ latex \int_0^1 f(x) \, \mathrm{d} x $ produces \int_0^1 f(x) \, \mathrm{d} x.

To display a formula type <p align=”center”> $ latex \displaystyle <Your LaTex code> $</p>.

For example <p align=”center”>$ latex \displaystyle \sum_{n=1}^\infty \frac{1}{n^2} = \frac{\pi^2}{6}. $</p> yields

\displaystyle \sum_{n=1}^\infty \frac{1}{n^2} = \frac{\pi^2}{6}.

For a short introduction to LaTex see for instance here.

Further information on writing formulas in WordPress can be found here. Some information can also be found here. A very useful program which converts latex into WordPress-Latex can be found here, see also here. If you are running into problems with formulae not parsing, see here.

7 responses to “Writing LaTeX in WordPress”

  1. hirak | December 17, 2011 at 5:01 pm | Reply

    very useful thanks..

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  3. otrejot | March 31, 2013 at 11:10 am | Reply

    Hey thanks, really useful !

  4. graydennisc | April 28, 2013 at 1:00 am | Reply

    Excellent! I \omega \emptyset \mathbb{N} {\partial d} \mathrm e \mathbb{R} if it works in comments too. Thanks.

    Also, if anyone else was confused, you need to drop the space between $ and ‘latex’. I imagine you added the space so that you could show the syntax without it turning into LaTex output.

  5. Robert David West | February 20, 2014 at 6:56 am | Reply

    Thank you! Hugely helpful. In the example you gave it comes out pretty nice since you have a fraction on either side of the equation, but when that is not the case you get this size difference issue, that comes from using the latex inline functinality: $ $, rather than the one line: $$ $$

    S_a \triangleq \frac{ S \cdot n + f}{n}

  6. Robert David West | February 20, 2014 at 6:59 am | Reply

    I found a work around for this issue:

    S_a \triangleq \frac{ S \cdot n + f}{n}

  7. Robert David West | February 20, 2014 at 7:04 am | Reply

    by using a different size for each side of the equation:

    $ latex S_a \triangleq &s=2 $ $ latex \frac{ S \cdot n + f}{n} &s=3

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