The plugin is great. thanks for your work! Right now it highlights my search terms if they are at the beginning of a string, but I was wondering if there was a way to make it highlight if the search terms if they are in the middle or end of a word?

For example:
-If I search “Word” and a result is “WordPress”, I get the proper highlighting WordPress.
-If I search “Press” and the result is “WordPress”, I get no highlighting.

Am I doing something wrong?

I’ve installed 0.7 and it works…. however when I search for a term with quotes .. ie “Iran Oil” (so it gets all posts with ‘Iran Oil’ and not for eg ‘Iran has Oil’ in them)…. the search results terms are not highlighted. The highlight only works if I enter a search without quotes.

Any help appreciated.

There are two ways to approach this:

1. Find the template that is used for the search results. It depends on your theme: it is usually called search.php but in TentyTen for example, you would need to create a new file called loop-search.php … Then instead of using the_permalink() you might try something like echo add_query_arg('s', get_search_query(), get_permalink($post->ID))

… or …

2. Edit your themes functions.php and add the following code

add_filter('the_permalink','add_my_search_query_to_permalink');

function add_my_search_query_to_permalink($url) {
if( is_search() )
return add_query_arg('s', get_search_query(), $url);
else
return $url;
}

Please note: these code snippets are untested so be prepared to revert to the original files to get your site back online

Please ignore the new 0.7 version and download the Development Version from http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/highlight-search-terms/download/ under “Other Versions” and install via WordPress or FTP upload.

Let me know if that works for you

Thanks a lot!