Search Everything – highlights also in links!

I’ve just downloaded Search Everything & discovered the issue of garbled post titles on my results page when searched for word/s are in the post title & highlighting is turned on in the plugin.

To fix this behaviour I suggest you check the search.php file for your chosen theme. Mine was using:

<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="<?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a>

to output the post titles in the search results.

I changed it to:

<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="<?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a>

That subtle change fixed the problem on my site.