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Highlight Search Terms · Version history

Highlight Search Terms changelog and version history

Latest version
1.8.5
Nov 6, 2026 (3 days ago)
Releases
37
since 2012
In the last year
3
about one every 109 days
Tested up to
WordPress 7.2
PHP 5.6 or later

Releases each year

  • 201210 releases
  • 20132 releases
  • 20141 release
  • 20151 release
  • 20162 releases
  • 20175 releases
  • 20181 release
  • 20193 releases
  • 20202 releases
  • 20216 releases
  • 20231 release
  • 20263 releases

20263 releases

  1. Highlight Search Terms 1.8.5Latest

    • Date: 20261106
    • Only load on front-end
    • Update compatibility/tested info

  2. Highlight Search Terms 1.8.4

    • Date 2026-05-26
    • Improved T25 theme compatibility
    • WP 7 compatibilty tested

  3. Highlight Search Terms 1.8.3

    • Date 2024-04-05
    • Update to WP coding standards
    • WP 6.5 compatibility tested

20231 release

  1. Highlight Search Terms 1.8.2

    • Date 2022-03-01
    • Fix T_TRY error

20216 releases

  1. Highlight Search Terms 1.7.0

    • Date 2021-12-04
    • Switch to mark.js, https://markjs.io/
    • Include HTML5 main tag
    • Dropped futile search engine support
    • FIX: Possible double inline script
    • FIX: wptexturized search results not highlighted
    • NEW: filter hlst_events

  2. Highlight Search Terms 1.6.1

    • Date 2021-08-18
    • FIX: NinjaFirewall incompatibility, thanks @danielrufde

  3. Highlight Search Terms 1.5.8

    • Date 2021-06-20
    • NEW: filters hlst_query_vars, hlst_inline_script and hlst_input_get_args

  4. Highlight Search Terms 1.5.7

    • Date 2021-06-10
    • FIX: broken comment pagination links, thanks @tooni

  5. Highlight Search Terms 1.5.6

    • Date 2021-01-13
    • FIX: jQuery 3 incompatibility

  6. Highlight Search Terms 1.5.5

    • Date 2020-04-07
    • FIX: XSS vulnerability revisited

20202 releases

  1. Highlight Search Terms 1.5.4

    • Date 2020-04-02
    • Prevent click-through search highlighting from menu items or widgets

  2. Highlight Search Terms 1.5.3

    • Date 2019-12-20
    • Third party search plugins compatibility improvement

20193 releases

  1. Highlight Search Terms 1.5.2

    • Date 2019-03-07
    • FIX: cyrillic case sensitive results, thanks @dimmez
    • Script compression

  2. Highlight Search Terms 1.5.1

  3. Highlight Search Terms 1.5

    • Date 2018-03-10
    • Move to wp_add_inline_script

20181 release

  1. Highlight Search Terms 1.4.7

    • Date 2017-12-22
    • Fix possible vulnerability in append_search_query()
    • Prepare translation text domain

20175 releases

  1. Highlight Search Terms 1.4.6

  2. Highlight Search Terms 1.4.5

    • Date 2017-11-23
    • FIX: Prevent bbp_is_search() on admin triggered by Gravity Forms, reported by @dicoeenvoud

  3. Highlight Search Terms 1.4.4

    • Date 2017-02-24
    • FIX: XSS vulnerability reported by Ben Bidner @ Automattic

  4. Highlight Search Terms 1.4.3

    • Date 2017-01-31 Dev time: 3h
    • BUGFIX: [] operator not supported for strings in PHP 7, thanks @seppsoft
    • Drop pre WP 3.7 support
    • Improved bbPress support

  5. Highlight Search Terms 1.4.2

    • Date 2016-10-04 Dev time: 3h
    • BUGFIX: use filtered search terms for click through highlighting

20162 releases

  1. Highlight Search Terms 1.4.1

    • Date 2016-07-20 Dev time: 2h
    • BUGFIX: incompatibility with Relevanssi and other search plugins

  2. Highlight Search Terms 1.4

    • Date 2016-04-10 Dev time: 6h
    • Better search results click though highlighting
    • Improved bbPress compatibility
    • Renamed Minified js

20151 release

  1. Highlight Search Terms 1.3.9

    • Date 2014-09-04 Dev time: 5h
    • WordPress 3.8 search compatibility allowing less fuzzy search with quotes
    • ?sentence=1 query parameter compat
    • FIX: XSS vulnerability found by Rodolfo Godalle, Jr.

20141 release

  1. Highlight Search Terms 1.3

    • Date 2013-09-02 Dev time: 2h
    • BuddyPress and bbPress highlighting within forum searches
    • FIX: jQuery 1.10 compatibility

20132 releases

  1. Highlight Search Terms 1.2.5

    • Date 2013-07-28 Dev time: 1h
    • FIX: Combine-JS compatibility (Thanks to Joshua Hoke)
    • More possible classes and ids to look for

  2. Highlight Search Terms 1.2.4

    • Date 2012-12-16 Dev time: 1h
    • BUGFIX: non-western languages in URL not decoded

201210 releases

  1. Highlight Search Terms 1.2.2

  2. Highlight Search Terms 1.2.3

  3. Highlight Search Terms 0.8

  4. Highlight Search Terms 0.7

  5. Highlight Search Terms 0.6

  6. Highlight Search Terms 0.5

  7. Highlight Search Terms 0.4

  8. Highlight Search Terms 0.3

  9. Highlight Search Terms 0.2

  10. Highlight Search Terms 0.1

Questions about Highlight Search Terms’s releases

What is the latest version of Highlight Search Terms?

1.8.5, released on Nov 6, 2026 (3 days ago). It’s tested up to WordPress 7.2 and needs PHP 5.6 or later.

How often is Highlight Search Terms updated?

3 releases in the last year, about one every 109 days. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from July 2012.

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Release dates come from the day each version’s folder was made in Highlight Search Terms’s WordPress.org SVN repository; the notes from its readme’s changelog, as its authors wrote it.