Highlight Search Terms

Okay, I figured out how to highlight the search terms in the results.

First I added new versions of the results templates in my child theme.

for example posts:

childtheme/buddypress-global-search/loop/post.php

<?

// first get the search term
$key = $_GET[“s”];

// then strip all html tags form the title and excerpt
$title=wp_strip_all_tags(get_the_title());
$excerpt = wp_strip_all_tags(get_the_excerpt());

// then build the keys to highlight
$keys = implode(‘|’, explode(‘ ‘, $key));

//highlight both the html stripped title and excerpt fields
$titles = preg_replace(‘/(‘ . $keys .’)/iu’, ‘<span class=”search-highlight”>\0</span>’, $title);

$text = preg_replace(‘/(‘ . $keys .’)/iu’, ‘<span class=”search-highlight”>\0</span>’, $excerpt);

?>

<!– Display the results here –>
<h3 class=”entry-title” >
” title=”<?php echo esc_attr( sprintf( __( ‘Permalink to %s’, ‘buddypress-global-search’ ), the_title_attribute( ‘echo=0’ ) ) ); ?>” rel=”bookmark”><?php echo $titles; ?>
</h3>

<div class=”entry-content entry-summary” “>

<?php echo $text; ?>

</div><!– .entry-content –>

• This reply was modified 7 years, 6 months ago by pandraka.

Thanks @pandraka for sharing your code snippet.