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Highlight Search Terms

Very lightweight (vanilla) Javascript that wraps search terms in an HTML5 mark tag within WordPress search results.

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Highlight Search Terms
Highlight Search Terms
Highlight Search Terms
Highlight Search Terms

Overview

Compatibility

Customer support & learning resources

Changelog

Main benefits

Highlights search terms

Lightweight and no options

BuddyPress/bbPress compatibility

Caching compatibility

HTML5 support

About this plugin

Categories: Utilities
Version: 1.8.3
Last updated: 04-04-2024
WordPress version: 3.7
Tested up to: 6.5.5
PHP version required: 5.6
Languages: Ελληνικά, Nederlands
Learning resources: View resources

Overview

The WordPress Highlight Search Terms plugin is a lightweight, no-options tool designed to enhance the search experience by highlighting search terms within WordPress-generated search results. The plugin highlights keywords on both the search results page and individual post pages, offering features such as case and character insensitive highlighting, and compatibility with BuddyPress and bbPress. Since version 1.6, the plugin no longer relies on the jQuery library, instead using HTML5 tags for improved performance. It also integrates smoothly with caching plugins like WP Super Cache. Users are free to define their own CSS styles to ensure highlights are visible across different browsers, particularly for backward compatibility with older versions like Internet Explorer 8. The plugin also includes custom hooks and filters for greater flexibility and can be tailored to work with various themes through minor adjustments.

Click through highlights

  • Highlights search terms not only on the WordPress search results page but also within each linked post page.
  • Ensures users can easily find relevant information even after navigating away from the search results.

Character and case insensitive highlighting

  • Provides lenient highlighting that is not affected by character case.
  • Improves user experience by ensuring all relevant terms are highlighted regardless of their case.

BuddyPress / bbPress compatibility

  • Supports highlighting within forum searches, making it versatile for different types of WordPress sites.
  • Ensures consistent user experience across various WordPress plugins and extensions.

Caching (WP Super Cache) compatibility

  • Works seamlessly with caching plugins like WP Super Cache.
  • Ensures that search term highlighting does not interfere with site performance and caching mechanisms.

Features list

Feature

Free version

Premium version

Open most image formats, videos, PDFs, maps, inline content, iframes

Supports a wide range of media formats and content types.

Automatic media detection

Automatically identifies and processes media files.

Fully customizable appearance and lightbox behavior

Allows extensive customization of the look and functionality.

Perfect mobile & touch optimization including swipe, drag, pinch-to-zoom

Optimized for mobile devices with touch gestures.

Zoom images with toolbar buttons + pinch-to-zoom on mobile

Provides zoom functionality via toolbar and touch gestures.

Easily create modals and popups on your website

Simplifies the creation of modals and popups.

Show thumbnails in lightbox with multiple styles

Display thumbnails in a lightbox with various style options.

Enable fullscreen lightbox

Allow the lightbox to expand to fullscreen mode.

Show toolbar buttons: thumbs, slideshow, fullscreen, zoom, transformation

Display toolbar buttons for thumbnails, slideshow, fullscreen, zoom, and transformation.

Optionally enable slideshows with custom transition styles

Enable slideshows with customizable transition styles.

Optionally enable image transformation controls

Enable controls for image transformation if desired.

Open Google Maps with full functionality in a lightbox

Display Google Maps with full functionality within a lightbox.

Advanced gallery detection options

Utilize advanced options for detecting galleries.

Additional styling options

Provide extra styling options for customization.

Additional transition effects

Include more transition effects for enhanced visuals.

Additional slideshow effects

Offer extra effects for slideshow presentations.

Lightbox spotlight effect

Apply a spotlight effect within the lightbox.

Advanced automatic popup options

Use advanced options for automatic popups.

Third-party integrations (Elementor, FacetWP, Gravity Forms, TablePress, WP Bakery)

Integrate with third-party tools like Elementor, FacetWP, Gravity Forms, TablePress, and WP Bakery.

Pricing

Free Lightbox

$0 / free

Plan includes

Open most image formats, videos, PDFs, maps, inline content, iframes
Automatic media detection
Fully customizable appearance and lightbox behavior
Perfect mobile & touch optimization including swipe, drag, pinch-to-zoom
Zoom images with toolbar buttons + pinch-to-zoom on mobile
Easily create modals and popups on your website
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Pro Lightbox

$49 / yearly

Plan includes

Show thumbnails in lightbox with multiple styles
Enable fullscreen lightbox
Show toolbar buttons: thumbs, slideshow, fullscreen, zoom, transformation
Optionally enable slideshows with custom transition styles
Zoom images with toolbar buttons + pinch-to-zoom on mobile
Optionally enable image transformation controls
Open Google Maps with full functionality in a lightbox
Advanced gallery detection options
Buy Now

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Rating and reviews

5

Rating summary

40

Reviews

8K

Active installations

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hexoliving

hexoliving

24 May, 2024

Nice plugin – highly reccomend.
mauri01

mauri01

04 Apr, 2024

I added the “Prevent highlighting when clicking through to result” option, all works well! Thanks you
generosus

generosus

14 Sep, 2023

Nice! A plugin that works “out of the box.” Note: If after installing this plugin you experience any issues, most likely, they are due to a conflict with another plugin (usually a Cache or Performance plugin). The developers of these other plugins should be able to help solve your issues. Cheers 🙂
j0p2021

j0p2021

30 Aug, 2023

Very good. It didn’t work right away. But overall very helpful. Although I immediately found a small mistake. For some reason, “by” does not work, but “by” = “by” – I checked! 1.cbm.ua/?p=5504
BPhDesigns

BPhDesigns

03 Mar, 2023

Thanks for this great simple plugin.

FAQ

Installation instructions

I do not see any highlighting!

I want to customize the highlighting but have no idea what to put in my stylesheet. Can you give me some examples?

Please give me more advanced CSS examples

Terms outside my post/page content get highlighted too

What does it do?

What does it NOT do?

So what do I need to do?