Title: codepress_get_lang
Published: April 25, 2014
Last modified: April 28, 2025

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# codepress_get_lang( string $filename )

## In this article

 * [Parameters](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/codepress_get_lang/?output_format=md#parameters)
 * [Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/codepress_get_lang/?output_format=md#source)
 * [Related](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/codepress_get_lang/?output_format=md#related)
 * [Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/codepress_get_lang/?output_format=md#changelog)

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This function has been deprecated since 3.0.0.

Determines the language to use for CodePress syntax highlighting.

## 󠀁[Parameters](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/codepress_get_lang/?output_format=md#parameters)󠁿

 `$filename`stringrequired

## 󠀁[Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/codepress_get_lang/?output_format=md#source)󠁿

    ```php
    function codepress_get_lang( $filename ) {
    	_deprecated_function( __FUNCTION__, '3.0.0' );
    }
    ```

[View all references](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/files/wp-admin/includes/deprecated.php/)
[View on Trac](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/6.9.4/src/wp-admin/includes/deprecated.php#L201)
[View on GitHub](https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/blob/6.9.4/src/wp-admin/includes/deprecated.php#L201-L203)

## 󠀁[Related](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/codepress_get_lang/?output_format=md#related)󠁿

| Uses | Description | 
| [_deprecated_function()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/_deprecated_function/)`wp-includes/functions.php` |

Marks a function as deprecated and inform when it has been used.

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## 󠀁[Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/codepress_get_lang/?output_format=md#changelog)󠁿

| Version | Description | 
| [3.0.0](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/since/3.0.0/) | Deprecated.  | 
| [2.8.0](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/since/2.8.0/) | Introduced. |

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