The Highlite Pro – Smart Frontend Text Highlighter Premium is a robust WordPress plugin designed to significantly enhance content interactivity on your website. It allows logged-in users to highlight text on the frontend, save it with custom or preset colors, attach notes, and retrieve all their highlights in an organized list. Whether you’re running an educational site, blog, documentation portal, or publishing platform, this plugin makes reader engagement and note-taking seamless.
✅ Core Features #
- Frontend Highlighting with Persistence:
- Users can select text or block elements (like paragraphs or list items) and apply highlights that persist on page reload.
- Highlights are saved per user and per post, ensuring personalized storage.
- Attach Notes to Highlights:
- Rich text notes can be added to any highlight using the Quill editor, presented in a SweetAlert2 modal.
- Users can edit or delete notes at any time.
- Color Picker with Presets and Custom Color Support:
- Default preset colors (yellow, blue, red, green).
- Includes a custom color picker with gradient preview and native color selector.
- Max-Word Limit for Highlights:
- Admin can define a word count limit for each individual highlight.
- If a selection exceeds the limit, the user is warned via modal.
- Post Type Selection:
- Highlighting is enabled only on selected public post types (e.g., posts, pages, or CPTs).
- Admin panel provides a user-friendly checkbox list for selection.
- Highlight Management Panel via Shortcode:
[highlite_list]shortcode allows users to view, filter, sort, and download or print all their saved highlights.- Integrated filters: Search by keyword, sort by title/date, order by ASC/DESC.
- Download & Print Highlights:
- Each highlight list item includes a DOCX download option (with HTML preserved) and a print option via a custom HTML template.
- Securely nonce-protected for valid users only.
- Seamless User Experience:
- Action icons (🗑️ Delete, 📝 Note, 🖌️ Color) appear dynamically when users click on their highlight.
- SweetAlert2 modals are fully resizable for better UX on all devices.
- Auto restoration of all saved highlights with colors applied immediately upon page load.
- Clean UI & Minimalist Design:
- Designed with a lightweight visual footprint and accessibility in mind.
- Makes use of native WordPress Dashicons and CDN libraries (SweetAlert2, Quill.js).
🔐 User-Based Data Privacy #
- All highlights, notes, colors, and dates are saved in the current user’s metadata.
- This ensures private access and protection against shared/global interference.
💡 Use Case Examples #
- Educational Platforms: Allow students to highlight study material and save notes.
- Research Blogs: Enable researchers to annotate findings and revisit curated highlights.
- Product Documentation: Developers or customers can mark key API or setup details.
- Content Curation: Empower readers to save quotes, key points, or passages.
