I whipped up this little snippet that you can add to the functions.php of your wordpress theme to highlight keywords in search results for the_excerpt and the_title.
function wps_highlight_results($text){ if(is_search()){ $sr = get_query_var('s'); $keys = explode(" ",$sr); $text = preg_replace('/('.implode('|', $keys) .')/iu', '<strong>'.$sr.'</strong>', $text); } return $text; } add_filter('the_excerpt', 'wps_highlight_results'); add_filter('the_title', 'wps_highlight_results');