Rich Text Formats vs Highlight Search Terms

BlaBlaBlocks Formats lets you enhance your Gutenberg editor with interactive rich text formats like tooltips, markers, inline typography controls, and formatting utilities directly inside WordPress. No coding needed. Just select your text, choose a format, and instantly make your content more engaging. With BlaBlaBlocks Formats, you can add animated markers, interactive tooltips, inline typography styling, and quick formatting controls to improve readability and emphasize key information. Key Features Interactive text formats – Add InfoTips, markers, typography controls, and clear formatting directly from the block toolbar. Live customization – Change color, animation, and behavior in real time. Lightweight & optimized – Assets load only when formats are used. Native Gutenberg integration – Seamlessly fits the WordPress Block Editor. Why Choose BlaBlaBlocks Formats? Because plain text doesn’t always tell the full story! Highlight key phrases, provide helpful InfoTips, adjust inline typography, or quickly remove formatting, all within the familiar block editor UI. No shortcodes or custom HTML needed. 100% visual control inside the editor. Works with all themes and blocks. How It Works Select any text in the Gutenberg editor. Choose a format such as Marker, InfoTip, Typography, or Clear formatting. Adjust style and behavior using the sidebar options. See the preview instantly. Formats are rendered on both editor and frontend views with minimal code overhead. Use Cases Add InfoTips to glossary terms or product details. Highlight important phrases in tutorials or documentation. Apply inline typography styles to emphasize selected text. Clear unwanted formatting from copied or edited content. Available Formats 1. Marker Underline or highlight text segments with customizable color and animation. 2. InfoTip Attach informative tooltips to any text selection perfect for definitions, links, or extra context. 3. Typography Apply inline typography styles such as font family, font size, appearance, letter spacing, and letter case. 4. Clear formatting Remove applied inline formatting from selected text with a single toolbar action. Customization Options Marker color & animation style Tooltip position, size, and behavior Typography presets and inline text styling Backend-only or frontend-visible options Per-format settings saved automatically Performance & Optimization BlaBlaBlocks Formats loads assets only when necessary, reducing frontend bloat. No React, Redux, or large JS libraries Powered by the web component, not loaded on the public site unless formats are active. Open Source and Free The BlaBlaBlocks Formats is open source. Not only is it free to use, but you are also welcome to collaborate and contribute to its development. Source Code: https://github.com/lubusIN/blablablocks-formats Report Issues: https://github.com/lubusIN/blablablocks-formats/issues Documentation: https://github.com/lubusIN/blablablocks-formats/wiki

Highlights search terms within WordPress generated search results, both on the search results page and on each linked post page itself. This plugin is light weight and has no options. It started as very simple fusion between How to Highlight Search Terms with jQuery – theme hack by Thaya Kareeson and Search Hilite by Ryan Boren. It has since evolved with many optimizations, HTML5 and other plugin compatibility. Since version 1.6 it no longer depends on the jQuery library. Features Click through highlights: Highlights not only on WP search results page but also one click deeper inside a post page Character and case insensitive (lenient) highlighting Caching (WP Super Cache) compatibility Search terms wrapped in double quotes now considered as single term Compatible with: Woocommerce Search Filter Pro BuddyPress bbPress What does it do? This low impact plugin finds all search terms on a search results page inside each post and highlights them with a ... tag. Note that N is a number starting with 0 for the first term used in the search phrase increasing 1 for each additional term used. Any part of a search phrase wrapped in quotes is considered as a single term. What does it NOT do? There are no CSS style rules set for highlighting. You are free to use any styling you wish but to make the highlights visible in browsers that do not support HTML5 like Internet Explorer 8 or older you absolutely need to define at least one rule. Modern HTML5 browsers will use their own highlighting style by default, which usually is a yellow marker style background. So what do I need to do? In most cases, it should just work. But you can do two things to ensure backward browser and theme compatibility: Define CSS rules: There are no configuration options and there is no predefined highlight styling. You are completely free to define any CSS styling rules in your themes main stylesheet (style.css) or the Custom CSS tab if the WordPress theme customizer. You can find basic instructions and CSS examples in the FAQ’s. Check your theme: In most up to date themes (including WP’s own default theme) post and page content is shown inside a div with class hentry. This means search terms found in post and page content will be highlighted but not similar terms that accidentally show in the page header, sidebar or footer. If your current theme does not use the hentry class (yet), this plugin will look for IDs content, main and finally wrapper but if none of those are found, it will not work for you out of the box. See the last of the FAQ’s for ways to make it work. Available hooks and filters hlst_query_vars – The array of WordPress query variables that the plugin will identify as a search query. Must return an array. Default: ['search_terms','bbp_search'] (WordPress abd bbPress search) hlst_input_get_args – An array of GET variables that the plugin will identify as a search query. Must return an array. Default: ['hilite'] (for click-through highlighting) hlst_selectors – The array of possible HTML DOM element identifiers that the script will try. The first viable identifier it finds elements of will be scanned for search terms to mark, the rest is ignored. So the order is important here! Start with the element closest to, but still containing all the post/page title, excerpt or content. hlst_events – The array of DOM event listeners that the inline script will watch for. Default: ['DOMContentLoaded','post-load'] (on Document Ready and for Jetpack Infinite Scroll and others). hlst_inline_script – The inline script that will be added to the plugin script file. Can be used to add to or alter the inline script. Must return a string. Known issues & development If your theme does not wrap the main content section of your pages in a div with class “hentry” or HTML5 article tags, this plugin might not work well for you out of the box. However, you can make it work. See the last of the FAQ’s for an explanation. Josh pointed out a conflict with the ShareThis buttons plugin. Since then, that plugin has been completely rewriten so please let me know if the problem still exists. Thanks! Please file bug reports and code contributions as pull requests on GitHub.