Title: Highlighting inconsistent
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Highlighting inconsistent

 *  Resolved [billium99](https://wordpress.org/support/users/billium99/)
 * (@billium99)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/highlighting-inconsistent/)
 * Hi – we’ve been using the plugin for a while now. It works well in most cases,
   but we see a very odd bit of behavior.
 * If we search “a few facts” then the first result page is perfect – it finds these
   matches and highlights the phrase.
 * But if I then click the article to read it, the highlighting in the article itself
   is ONLY highlighting every instance of “a”.
 * “Few facts” is not highlighted at all on the post itself. Since “a” appears in
   so many words, this is not useful highlighting, but the fact that we lost the
   2nd and 3rd word in the highlight – is this a bug?
 * Are you aware of this issue?
 * Thanks
 * Bill
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/highlight-search-terms/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/highlight-search-terms/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Rolf Allard van Hagen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ravanh/)
 * (@ravanh)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/highlighting-inconsistent/#post-7257716)
 * Hi Bill,
 * Not really a bug but rather in inconsistency or discrepancy between the plugin’s
   take on search terms and the (improved) WordPress search function. Thanks for
   pointing it out 🙂
 * I’ve released a new version 1.4 that should be more consistent with the WordPress
   search. In your example case, ignoring the “a” in both the search results page
   _and_ the post/page/post_type after click-through from the search results.
 * Please let me know if you find any issues!

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 * Last reply from: [Rolf Allard van Hagen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ravanh/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/highlighting-inconsistent/#post-7257716)
 * Status: resolved