Changelog

Release Date - 12 July 2026

• Enhancements:

  • Search term highlighting now keeps double-quoted phrases intact: searching for "richard harding" highlights the whole phrase instead of its individual words. Mixed queries (e.g. "richard harding" smith) highlight the phrase plus the remaining words, and phrases match across whitespace variations, including non-breaking spaces.
  • Terms excluded with the - operator are no longer highlighted, since they cannot appear in the results.
  • Added client-side JavaScript highlighting for cached pages. When a full-page cache (e.g. LiteSpeed Cache, WP Super Cache) serves a cached response, PHP-based highlighting is skipped. The new script reads document.referrer in the browser and applies the same highlighting logic client-side, covering singular post/page views where "Highlight followed links" is enabled.

• Bug fixes:

  • Fixed "Highlight followed links" silently not working when the site's Home URL scheme differs from the scheme visitors use (e.g. an http:// Home URL on a site served over https://, common behind SSL-terminating proxies).

Full Changelog: v4.3.1...v4.3.2