When writing word press articles and including example code with <code>, the leading spaces are discarded when the article is displayed and without indention code looks weird and unreadable.
A way to bypass this is to transform tabs to spaces, and then replace all spaces by no-break-spaces (unicode 0x00A0). Then the indention remains intact. Direct copy paste from the blog to an editor or IDE will not be resulting in runnable code. But for non trivial examples I would recommend to put the code on github and add a link to the article. Code sniplets in articles should be mostly for human readers.
