Highlight Searched Term In WordPress Search Results

A popular way of displaying search results is to highlight the search term in the results. Read on for the code.

Search Result Code

• Navigate to your template directory and open the search.php file
• find the following code

the_title()

• Replace it with the following code

echo $title;

• The line before the previous code insert the following

<?php
	$title 	= get_the_title();
	$keys= explode(" ",$s);
	$title 	= preg_replace('/('.implode('|', $keys) .')/iu',
		'\0',
		$title);
?>

• Open your themes stylesheet and add the following code

strong.search-excerpt { background: yellow; }