Title: Google_hilite question
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Google_hilite question

 *  [sportbiker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sportbiker/)
 * (@sportbiker)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google_hilite-question/)
 * In WP 1.2 I turned on the Google_hilite plugin. Err, now what do I do to see 
   the results?

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 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google_hilite-question/#post-59937)
 * Copy something from your blog, go to google, search for it, then get to your 
   blog from a google link.
    Or Use the search box on your blog to find something
   you have written.
 *  [skippy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/skippy/)
 * (@skippy)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google_hilite-question/#post-59942)
 * I enabled the google_hilite plugin, went to google.com, searched on terms that
   I knew would display my site in the results, and then followed one such link 
   to my site. Nothing was highlighted.
    Looking through the plugin source, I see
   that the terms are highlighted by use of a span ( `<span class="hilite">`) which
   was missing from my wp-layout.css. Might help if the plugin specifically made
   mention of this. Sportbiker: create a class definition in your wp-layout.css 
   called “hilite”: `.hilite { background: #FF0; }`
 *  [Beel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/beel/)
 * (@beel)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google_hilite-question/#post-59944)
 * Check your source, the plugin should add the style in the head so there is no
   need to specifically mention it 😉
 *  [codergurl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/codergurl/)
 * (@codergurl)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google_hilite-question/#post-59951)
 * It doesn’t hilite the search terms for me either. The <span class=”hilite”> doesn’t
   even appear in the source. I don’t really need it anyways though…just thought
   i’d test it out. 😉
 *  Anonymous
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google_hilite-question/#post-59960)
 * You need to have `<?php wp_head(); ?>` in the head of your index.php. Check the
   default template.
 *  [Ryan Boren](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ryan/)
 * (@ryan)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google_hilite-question/#post-59961)
 * That was me.
 *  [skippy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/skippy/)
 * (@skippy)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google_hilite-question/#post-59963)
 * That’s it. An artifact of using a WordPress 1.02 index.php after upgrading to
   WordPress 1.2.
 *  [Beel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/beel/)
 * (@beel)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google_hilite-question/#post-59969)
 * Thanks for letting us know you got it, I was dinking around your site without
   the search bar when the highlighting just “appeared” – glad you got it working.
 *  Thread Starter [sportbiker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sportbiker/)
 * (@sportbiker)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google_hilite-question/#post-60030)
 * OIC. I got it to work but it’s not what I was expecting. I thought it would show
   me a list of all the search terms people have used to get to my site.
    Is there
   a way to accomplish that?
 *  Thread Starter [sportbiker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sportbiker/)
 * (@sportbiker)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google_hilite-question/#post-60032)
 * That looks more like it. I’ll have to install it (but not today) and give you
   an update. Thanks.
 *  [Ocean](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ocean/)
 * (@ocean)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google_hilite-question/#post-60529)
 * According to the plugin description, it should also highlight terms when typing
   the term into WordPress’s own search box. I see the Google refer works, but it
   doesn’t work when I search for something using the search box on my site. Any
   ideas?
 *  [Beel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/beel/)
 * (@beel)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google_hilite-question/#post-60530)
 * A link might help, but it may be that a limitation of Google hilite has been 
   a search which returns only “1” post does not highlight the word.
 *  [robgreeley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robgreeley/)
 * (@robgreeley)
 * [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google_hilite-question/#post-60772)
 * I ran a search which returned only one result – pointing to the complete version
   of a post ie after the “more” link. When linking from google, this page returns
   only the following error (in place of the post)
    Warning: Unknown modifier ‘/’
   in /home/pimjou2/public_html/pim-journal/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/google-
   hilite.php on line 107 Warning: Unknown modifier ‘2’ in /home/pimjou2/public_html/
   pim-journal/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/google-hilite.php on line 105 Not sure
   what to do about this.

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 * Last activity: [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google_hilite-question/#post-60772)
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