Minimal Search Term Highlight
Ultra-minimalist plugin to highlight search results.
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·0 active installs·Updated 7 years agoAs of April 2026, Minimal Search Term Highlight is a WordPress search plugin with 0 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 1.2K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.4.0+ and PHP 5.6+. Available on WordPress.org since 2018. Last updated 7 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: String locator.
0/5Rating
0active installs
1.2K+total downloads
8 yearssince 2018
Overview
This minimal and lightweight plugin will highlight search terms on your search result page. Furthermore, when you navigate to a content page via the search result, the search terms will be highlighted on the content page as well. This works by using specialized URLs on the search result page.
- Highlight search terms on the search result and content pages
- No configuration needed
- No JavaScript
- No StyleSheet
- Only standard WordPress hooks used
- Only 30 lines of code
Highlighting
The highlighting works by wrapping each search term with <mark> tag. The plugin does not provide any styling. Browser’s typically display mark tags with a bright yellow background. It is recommended to define your own styling for mark elements in your theme CSS.
Installation
Simply install and activate the…
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.4.0+ requiredTested up to 5.0.25 |
| PHP | 5.6+ required |
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
= 1.0.1 (2018-12-14)
- Remove word boundries in regex to allow highlighting word fragments as well
= 1.0.0 (2018-08-09)
- First stable release
Contributors
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