Quite frankly, no one really cares about search page. I too, previously, until the day I search for a site and find it hard to catch the terms on the search page. Instead of finding it, I search using browser CTRL+F again, double my search job.
There are numorous of plugins available for WordPress to highlight the search terms, some even have tutorial on how to highlight without using a plugin. I tested, it doesn’t work too well for me. Perhaps, the updated version of JQuery conflicted with it.
Yet again, WordPress template tags comes to save my time 
There is this the_search_query tags in WordPress. It will shows the term you searched. Simply, .replace() it with JQuery.
<script type="text/javascript" >
jQuery(document).ready(function($){
jQuery(".post").each(function() { // The DIV of the result
jQuery(this).html(jQuery(this).html().replace(/ <?php the_search_query(); ? >/ig, " <span class='highlight' > <?php the_search_query(); ? > </span >"));
});
}); // END
</script >
Simply placed the above code in search.php and you’re good to go
Hi, i use all your tips for my new twenty child theme
To help some users, here is the code without whitespaces :
[code]
jQuery(document).ready(function($){
jQuery(".post").each(function() { // The DIV of the result
jQuery(this).html(jQuery(this).html().replace(/ /ig, " "));
});
}); // END
[/code]
And add to style.css
[code].highlight {background: #dedede;}[/code] Use the color of your choice
It’s pretty obvious but just in case … ^^
wonder why it missed some words in the code lol
Nope, all code is good here… Appreciate it