LaTeX is a popular WordPress.com feature. It is a widely used typesetting system, very good for formatting mathematical formulas and equations etc. In this tutorial we will show you how to enable latex support in your self-hosted WordPress site. Official WordPress.com’s LaTeX support can easily be enabled with Jetpack plugin. First make sure Jetpack is active on you WordPress installation and then follow the given steps.
Visit Dashboard -> Jetpack -> Jetpack (Module Page) and scroll to ‘Beautiful Math‘ module and activate it. That’s it, LaTeX support is now active on your website.
How To Use LaTeX?
For including LaTeX code inside your post, page or any other post type use the following set of codes:
$latex your-latex-code-here$
For Example:
$latex i\hbar\frac{\partial}{\partial t}\left|\Psi(t)\right>=H\left|\Psi(t)\right>$
Produces:
You can customize its size and color etc by using parameters. WordPress.com already provides you all sorts of options here.