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Author: RavanH

Highlights search terms using jQuery when referer is a Google, Yahoo or Lycos 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.

What does it do?

This low impact plugin uses only two action hooks, init to insert the jQuery library (already included in your WordPress package) and wp_head to add a custom jQuery extension to your page source code. The jQuery extension that runs after the page has loaded, wraps all found search terms on that page in <span class="hilite term-N"> ... </span> tags, where N is a number starting with 0 for the first term used in the search phrase increasing 1 for each additional term used. A (part of a) search phrase wrapped in quotes is considered as a single term.

What do I need to do?

There are no configuration options and there is no predefined highlight styling. You are completely free to define any CSS styling rule in your themes Stylesheet, style.css, to get result that fits your theme best.

You can find basic instructions and CSS examples under the Other Notes tab.