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Alternatives to Highlight Search Terms

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Mark and highlight posts, pages and posts of custom post types within the posts overview.

★ 4.8WP 7.1PHP 7.0Updated 2mo ago
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A fast, lightweight search plugin powered by TNTSearch, indexing posts for near instant, accurate results.

★ 5.0WP 7.0.4PHP 7.4Updated 4mo ago
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Relevanssi replaces the default search with a partial-match search that sorts results by relevance. It also indexes comments and shortcode content.

★ 4.8WP 7.1.4PHP 7.1Updated 4d ago
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Extend search functionality to search in selected post meta, taxonomies, post types, and all authors.

★ 4.9WP 6.9.7PHP 7.0Updated 11mo ago
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Search in Place improves blog search by displaying query results in real time. It displays the results dynamically as you enter the search criteria.

★ 4.9WP 7.1.2PHP not listedUpdated 1mo ago
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Wordnestv1.1.3

A lightweight WordPress glossary tooltip plugin with zero frontend dependencies, native Chinese support, and English term matching.

★ 0.0WP 7.0.4PHP 8.0Updated 4mo ago
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