Highlight text in WordPress

An ability to highlight text allows to make a paragraph, or part of it, stand out from the rest of the text in your WordPress site.

With an integration of the Block editor into a WordPress core, it is possible to easily change colors of a selected text without a use of an additional plugin.

The Block editor comes with a simple tool, allowing to highlight text in a WordPress post or page, even without a need of modifying HTML.

Instead, you use in-build editor’s options to select a predefined color, or use a custom color of your choice. You can either change a text color, or a background color, or both.

Below, you can find a sample of what text highlighting can look like:

Highlight text

Here is a step-by-step guide on highlighting text in WordPress using a native functionality of the Block editor:

1. Select the paragraph, and then highlight the words you want to edit.
2. Click the dropdown arrow in the toolbar, shown above your selected text.
3. Select the Highlight option.
4. Select a color you want to use for Text or/and Background.

This highlighting feature is not dedicated for paragraphs only. You can also apply these steps to other text in Headings, Buttons, Links, etc.

I hope this tutorial was useful, and you learned how to highlight text in WordPress, with a use of native functionality of the editor.

If you have recently used text highlighting method on your website, please share your experience in the comments below. I would like to hear different use cases of the highlight feature.