customizing search results pages

  • Resolved aylee

    (@aylee)


    19 years, 9 months ago

    I’m using the Blix theme and right now the search results page show the whole content of the posts.

    I just want an excerpt that includes the search keyword used. And I also want the keyword in the excerpt in bold or highlighted. Is there any way to do that? Thanks!

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  • kickass

    (@kickass)

    19 years, 9 months ago

    If the blix theme is similar to kubrick you need to open search.php and change the call for the post to a call for the excerpt. More info here:
    http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_excerpt

    Thread Starter aylee

    (@aylee)

    19 years, 9 months ago

    I did try the_excerpt tag but it still won’t do what I need to do.

    The excerpt does not always show and bold or highlight the search term I entered in the search field.

    moshu

    (@moshu)

    19 years, 9 months ago

    The excerpt does what it says in its description: show the first 120 words or whatever that number is.

    It will NEVER do automatically “highlighting”, “bolding” etc.

    There might be a plugin for highligting the search term – thogh I have no idea if that guarantee the display of a text portion with the keyword.
    Browse the Plugins section of the Codex:
    http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugins

    Thread Starter aylee

    (@aylee)

    19 years, 9 months ago

    i found search-excerpt plugin

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