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Asked: 2026-05-22T20:25:30+00:00

On a WordPress blog let’s we have an article with 3 paragraphs with the

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On a WordPress blog let’s we have an article with 3 paragraphs with the following content:

This is my first row.

This is my second row, wow.

This is my third row, wow.

Let’s I will execute a search based on the word “wow”. How can I resolve, so in the results will appear an excerpt or a content, basically this is a full paragraph (obviously longer then in our example), but I want to show up the first parapraph which has the searched term inside it, instead of the very first paragraph of the content without any search term inside of it.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You cannot out of the box.

    What you can do, is parse the content using a DOM library once wpautop has kicked in (e.g. add_filter('the_content', 'yourfunction', 15);), and testing paragraphs one by one until you find the word you need. (Or regexp-foo’ing your way to it, even if it’s highly unrecommended to do so.)

    I’m sure the WP core devs will be very happy if you contribute a patch once you’ve implemented it.

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