Show shortcode without executing it

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I am trying to display code in my WordPress page and it isn’t working. Everything I read says that you should be able to just use pre tag with code tag and it would be good but when I try to display a shortcode, it renders the shortcode rather than displaying the code.

The codex says that using pre and code would work but it isn’t for me. Has anyone had this issue? Am I missing something in functions.php that makes this work?

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  1. To display a shortcode instead of rendering it you have two options:

    1. Write [[shortcode]]. WordPress will show this as [shortcode].
    2. Escape the [, write it as as [ or [.

  2. Using &#91 tag will not work if you switch between the text and visual editor.

    The [[shortcode]] solution does not work either with WP 4.1.1.

    Instead, the following solution works:

    [[shortcode]
Hello World
[/shortcode]]

  3. Worked for me:
    [shortcode] where &#91 is [ and ] is ] html codes.

    Don’t worked for me the one suggested by toscho:
    Write [[shortcode]]. WordPress will show this as [shortcode].

  4. I tried all suggested answers, none worked for me.

    Here is my (strange) way of showing [solr_search_shortcode]:
    <pre>[<code>solr_search_shortcode</code>]</pre>

    See it live here.