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1. ryan
   WordPress Dev
   Posted 5 years ago #

   This highlights search terms in your post contents for visitors coming to your site through Google, Lycos, and Yahoo. Other engines are easily added. It will also highlight searches driven by your Wordpress search box.
   See here:
   http://boren.nu/testbed/wp-hilite.phps
   Add this as wp-hilite.php to your installation root.
   Now, add this to my-hacks.php:
   require_once(ABSPATH . 'wp-hilite.php');
   add_filter('the_content', 'hilite');
   Here's what mine looks like:
   http://boren.nu/testbed/my-hacks.phps
   Now, add the following to your css:
   .hilite { background-color: #FF9; }
   Change the color to suit.
   This adds extra processing time for every post displayed, so you could see longer load times. Most of the regular expressions are anchored, so it shouldn't be too slow.
   Anyway, just a quick hack^Wmod I threw together.

2. LaughingLizard
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Thats very sweet! We were just talking about this on IRC. The load time excesses are almost negligible.

3. alexkingorg
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   That is pretty slick, thanks!

4. davidchait
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Nice and simple!
   =d

5. Sushubh
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   may i suggest integration with the original installation?

6. GamerZ
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   LEET

7. ryan
   WordPress Dev
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Matt is adding this to CVS. So, you won't need to require wp-hilite.php since the code will be in functions.php. You will still need to put the add_filter(...) line in your hacks file. This will not be turned on by default.

8. alexkingorg
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   I found a little problem with this, when using nice URLs, the category links are fooling the "hilite" code. For me, it was highlighting whitespace. I added this on line 95:
   if (!empty($term) && $term != ' ') { (closing on line 101) and that fixed it.

9. GamerZ
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Okie, i have copy the codes from the initial source. The funtions.php did not include wordpress search word highlighting

10. ryan
    WordPress Dev
    Posted 5 years ago #

    The version in CVS is an older one that only has Google. Wait for an update.

11. GamerZ
    Member
    Posted 5 years ago #

    oh thanks rboren

12. matt
    Troublemaker
    Posted 5 years ago #

    Fix applied to CVS.

13. Sushubh
    Member
    Posted 5 years ago #

    goodie, in the 11th Jan nightly?

14. GamerZ
    Member
    Posted 5 years ago #

    erm i got a question here

    if ( is_referer_search_engine($engine) && !empty($term) && $term != ' ') {

    I think $term will always be empty because $term is only define in the foreach loop.

15. alexkingorg
    Member
    Posted 5 years ago #

    Gamerz - correct, the fix in CVS won't work. I'm updating it.

16. Anonymous
    Unregistered
    Posted 5 years ago #

    @alex: =D

17. GamerZ
    Member
    Posted 5 years ago #

    ops, it was me, forgot to login

18. mtdewvirus
    Member
    Posted 5 years ago #

    Seems to even work on the excerpt now! :-)

19. seriocomic
    Member
    Posted 5 years ago #

    I have added the latest CVS versions of funtions.php, wp-blog-header.php and added the line 'add_filter('the_content', 'hilite');' to my-hacks.php (which is activated) but there is no span tags on the search result...
    what have I forgotten?

20. GamerZ
    Member
    Posted 5 years ago #

    the hilite is buggy, sometimes it highlights sometimes it don't.

21. seriocomic
    Member
    Posted 5 years ago #

    Yes, I noticed that it didn't work on the result of the search, but if I clicked on any internal link, and the searched-for term was in that link-post, then the highlighting worked (does that make any sense??).
    Considering that my site is blocked from SE robots, I only want the internal (wordpress) search to work.
    I wonder if the add_filter is being called at the right time?

22. davidchait
    Member
    Posted 5 years ago #

    I've had no problems with the original posted by rboren at the start of this thread. It's up working on http://www.chait.net, whether coming in through a search engine, or searching locally, just works.
    Actually, the only problem I had was that I need it to run earlier -- my own hacks to post-process the content block are now 'built-in' features, and so my amazon inline-blocks in reviews and articles are having words in the titles hilited! It's 'sorta cool', but screws up sizing/positioning of things a bit! ;)
    -d

23. seriocomic
    Member
    Posted 5 years ago #

    ...and now it works fine...
    http://www.seriocomic.com

24. mtdewvirus
    Member
    Posted 5 years ago #

    Any ideas on how to get the comment text highlighted as well? Google results often find words in the comments and it would be cool to be able to highlite them as well. Would there be a way to allow the SPAN tag to be added to comments by WP, without opening it up to allow comment authors to use it?

25. mtdewvirus
    Member
    Posted 5 years ago #

    *bump*

26. Anonymous
    Unregistered
    Posted 5 years ago #

    I can`t download the hack from "http://boren.nu/testbed/wp-hilite.phps". Where can i find it?
    Thanks

27. GamerZ
    Member
    Posted 5 years ago #

    it is now incoporated in WordPress

28. Anonymous
    Unregistered
    Posted 5 years ago #

    thanks!!

29. Anonymous
    Unregistered
    Posted 5 years ago #

    don't seems to work in my local instalation. When i search in my weblog, ni Hilited words appear. Do i need any configuration?

30. Sushubh
    Member
    Posted 5 years ago #

    yup the thing is buggy with my installation too.

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