Highlight Search Terms WordPress Plugin
Very lightweight jQuery script that wraps search terms in an HTML5 mark tag when referer is a search engine or within wp search results.
Highlights search terms using jQuery when referer is a search engine or within WordPress generated search results. This plugin is a light weight, low resource demanding and very simple fusion between How to Highlight Search Terms with jQuery - theme hack by Thaya Kareeson and Search Hilite by Ryan Boren, with some optimisations and updated to support HTML5.
Features
- BuddyPress / bbPress compatibility: highlighting within forum searches
- Caching (WP Super Cache) compatibility
- Click through highlights: Highlights not only on WP search results page but also one click deeper inside any of the found pages
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Usage of Highlight Search Terms over time
June 2023 — July 2024Between June 2023 and July 2024 the number of sites running this plugin went from 750 to 400 — down 350 (-46.7%).
| Month | Sites | Change |
|---|---|---|
| July 2024 | 400 | -32 |
| June 2024 | 432 | -11 |
| May 2024 | 443 | +2 |
| April 2024 | 441 | -6 |
| March 2024 | 447 | -68 |
| February 2024 | 515 | -26 |
| January 2024 | 541 | -58 |
| December 2023 | 599 | -31 |
| November 2023 | 630 | +0 |
| October 2023 | 630 | -35 |
| September 2023 | 665 | -59 |
| August 2023 | 724 | -13 |
| July 2023 | 737 | -13 |
| June 2023 | 750 | — |
Themes used with Highlight Search Terms
Detected most often on sites that run this plugin.
| # | Theme |
|---|---|
| 1 | Genesis |
| 2 | Triggerfish |
| 3 | Avada |
| 4 | Divi |
| 5 | Twentyeleven |
| 6 | Twentythirteen |
| 7 | Graphene |
| 8 | Initial |
| 9 | Twentyfourteen |
| 10 | 0 |
| 11 | Responsive |
| 12 | Twentytwelve |
| 13 | Total |
| 14 | 1e |
| 15 | Bigtuna |
| 16 | Mccscp |
| 17 | Minimum |
| 18 | Enfold |
| 19 | Chameleon |
| 20 | Division |
Sites running Highlight Search Terms
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