This is a review of four plugins that promise to display LaTex equations. The clear winner is WP QuickLaTeX that does even more.
LaTeX for WordPress
- Doesn’t cope with line breaks in the source
- No align environment
WP LaTeX
- Handles line breaks in the source
- No align environment
- Can be configured to use a local LaTeX installation
Enable Latex
- Handles line breaks in the source
- No align environment
- Size, foreground and background of formula can be configured in the shortcode
WP QuickLaTeX
- Huge number of environments: equation, align, displaymath, eqnarray, multline, flalign, gather, and alignat (including starred versions)
- Size, foreground and background of formula can be configured in the settings and in the code
- Even
tikzpictures can be used! - Numbered equations can be referenced in the text using familiar LaTex syntax
- Actively developed and maintained
- Images generated by QuickLaTeX.com and cached in the local installation
Conclusion
Obviously I’m going with WP QuickLaTeX.