Best search terms plugins for WordPress
The most popular search terms plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Highlight Search Terms leads with 6K+ active installs, ahead of Search Redirections (70+) and MySearchTermsPresenter (30+). All 3 plugins tagged “Search Terms” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 3 search terms plugins
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Highlight Search TermsThe most installed search terms plugin, with 6K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 40 reviews, updated 2 days ago.
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Search Redirections70+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, updated 1 week ago.
- 3.MySearchTermsPresenter
30+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 16 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 2.9.2.
All 3 plugins tagged “Search Terms”

Highlight Search Terms
Down in the last 7 days:3#2,730by Rolf Allard van Hagen2 days ago
Very lightweight (vanilla) Javascript that wraps search terms in an HTML5 mark tag within WordPress search results.
- Installs
- 6K+
- Rating
- 5.0(40)
- Downloads
- 39/day

Search Redirections
Up in the last 7 days:10#18,790by Ederson Peka10 days ago
Create redirect rules for any given search terms.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day
MySearchTermsPresenter
#24,510by Daniel Bakovic16 years ago
Boost your traffic and improve your adsense income and the search engine ranking without doing anything with MySearchTermPresenter.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day