WordPress search highlight plugin

Not many blogs have a search highlight plugin installed. I don’t know why because it sure helps your readers to quickly lay their eyes on the keywords they are searching for. At least i sure do appreciate a search highlight plugin activated on a site, forum or blog because i can quickly scroll the page and focus on what i’m there for: a couple of keywords. That way i don’t need to pay attention to other time consuming content. If you use Firefox browser it’s easy to hit the CTRL+F buttons and search for a some keywords. Why do that when you can have them marked by this plugin.

A highlight plugin basically applies some stylishing to your searched keywords. You might ask yourself if this plugin highlights the keywords for which a person searched on let’s say Google and landed on your page. Of course it does ! Not only that this plugin highlights the keywords searched from within your blog with the basic built-in search widget (or even a separate plugin), it also highlights keywords searched for on different search engines. The plugin i am refering to is called WP-Highlight and it’s very easy to install and to customize. It is compatible to WordPress versions as far as 2.3.3.

All you need to do is to install the plugin (if you don’t know how check out the official guide) and nothing more !

If want to customize the highlight effect on the keywords feel free to edit wp-highlight.css. For example on this blog, i have removed all the different colors (because the default ones were too messy) and kept just one single color that matched my blog design.

Here is my wp-highlight.css file:

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@charset "utf-8";
/* CSS Document */
.hilite, .hilite1, .hilite2, .hilite3, .hilite4, .hilite5, .hilite6, .hilite7,
.hilite8, .hilite9 {
background-color: #C2C2C2;
border-bottom-color: white;
border-bottom-style: dotted;
border-bottom-width: 1px;
}
#highlight_info {
left:0px;
z-index:-50;
width:2px;
height:2px;
bottom:1px;
}

Download WP-Highlight Plugin

You can see a demo on my blog.

If you encounter problems you can always head to the support forums.