You can highlight the search result for your users/visitors, and help them find the related content more quickly and easily. This simple tutorial will help you along.

Procedure:

Note: Do take backup of the file you try this.

01. Replace the_exerpt() code in search.php file with:

echo $excerpt;


02. Now just below the replaced code add these lines:

$excerpt = get_the_excerpt();
$keys = explode(" ",$s);
$excerpt = preg_replace('/('.implode('|', $keys) .')/iu', '<strong class="search-excerpt">\0</strong>', $excerpt);


03. Edit the class .search-excerpt as you want your highlight to look.

This concludes this simple and useful tutorial. Hope you like it.