You will be able to make a shortcode of the plugins for Wordpress of embedding Gist.You will be able to make a shortcode of plugins for Wordpress of embedding Gist.
The plugins for wordpress of embedding Gist is like this.
http://wordpress.org/plugins/embed-github-gist/
Source code is here
https://github.com/tomorrowkey/make-gist-shortcode
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