No highlighted found terms in page templates

Hi, does your theme invoke wp_footer() twice?

I don’t think so. There’s only one instance of <footer [etc]> in the source.

If this gives you any clue, in the source of the “offending” template (when it has been the result of a search, and the query string has been duly appended, such as ?hilite=zebra), the content of the script is basically repeated, so it looks like:

<script id='hlst-extend-js-after'>
    /* Highlight Search Terms 1.6.1 ( RavanH - https://status301.net/wordpress-plugins/highlight-search-terms/ ) */
    const hlst = function() {
        window.hilite(["zebra"], ["#groups-dir-list", "#members-dir-list", "div.bbp-topic-content,div.bbp-reply-content,li.bbp-forum-info,.bbp-topic-title,.bbp-reply-title", "article", "div.hentry", "div.post", "div.wp-block-query", "#content", "#main", "div.content", "#middle", "#container", "div.container", "div.page", "#wrapper", "body"], true, true)
    };
    window.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', hlst);
    window.addEventListener('post-load', hlst);
    /* Highlight Search Terms 1.6.1 ( RavanH - https://status301.net/wordpress-plugins/highlight-search-terms/ ) */
    const hlst = function() {
        window.hilite(["zebra"], ["#groups-dir-list", "#members-dir-list", "div.bbp-topic-content,div.bbp-reply-content,li.bbp-forum-info,.bbp-topic-title,.bbp-reply-title", "article", "div.hentry", "div.post", "div.wp-block-query", "#content", "#main", "div.content", "#middle", "#container", "div.container", "div.page", "#wrapper", "body"], true, true)
    };
    window.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', hlst);
    window.addEventListener('post-load', hlst);
    </script>

So the function gets called twice and the same variable gets declared twice.

But maybe you realised all that.

I can’t think why the function should be repeated like that.

Hmmm, okay thanks for showing me the code snippet. That certainly explains the error.

But I cannot explain why that code would be repeated there. It is as if the plugin gets initialized twice but that is not possible…

In the original post, you said:

…but not in the page if that page is a template.

Which theme? Which template? Or is that a customized template?

I found the problem. It was my template – I had inadvertently called wp_head() twice.

It had nothing to do with your excellent plugin – sorry to have troubled you.

Ow.. that would indeed run the wp_enqueue_scripts action twice, which explains the double inline script. Didn’t think of that possibility…