How to Fix the Ampersand Issue When Using SyntaxHighlighter Evolved WordPress Plugin

I installed the SyntaxHighlighter Evolved plugin yesterday to display WordPress and Stata code fragments.

Unfortunately, the ampersand (&) was displayed as &. A simple Google search informed me that this was a known issue.

The solution I found involved adding the following code (derived from this support thread) in the functions.php file of the active skin of Dynamik Website Builder, running on the Genesis Framework.

//* Fix display of ampersands when using SyntaxHighlighter Evolved plugin
function kagg_syntaxhighlighter_precode( $code, $atts, $tag ) {
   if ( 'code' === $tag ) {
      $code = wp_specialchars_decode( $code, ENT_QUOTES );
   }
   return $code;
}
add_filter( 'syntaxhighlighter_precode', 'kagg_syntaxhighlighter_precode', 10, 3 );