Create a WordPress glossary, encyclopedia, or dictionary of terms and display responsive tooltips on hover.
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The CM Glossary Tooltip is a robust WordPress plugin. It empowers you to establish an extensive knowledge-base of terms and their definitions on your website.
Utilizing the Glossary plugin, you can easily establish an extensive glossary featuring terms with corresponding definitions. And we’ve been developing this since 2012!
This plugin operates by intelligently identifying glossary terms embedded within your posts or pages, incorporating links to a dedicated glossary page that offers detailed definitions for each term.
Furthermore, the plugin generates an adaptable glossary index, cataloging all the terms scattered across your website, and granting users convenient access to their respective definitions.
This powerful tool also includes the tooltip plugin feature, allowing you to effortlessly present dynamic a tooltip instantly emerges when users hover over the linked term.
This delivers a seamless and user-friendly method for users to swiftly access definitions.
The Glossary Plugin Premium editions includes even more powerful features, such as: audio and video tooltips, Wikipedia support, Google Translate and Merriam-Webster integrations, ChatGPT integration, support for abbreviations and variations, synonyms, multiple glossaries support, multiple index templates and much more.
(Some of these use cases might include pro plugin features)
- Includes all features of the Free Version.
- The Glossary index can show unlimited number of glossary terms.
- Optimized for fast work with large glossaries.
- Ability to show glossary terms in all custom post types.
- Allows to define how many terms to show in the Index page and where to place the pagination navigation.
- Support import and export of terms to and from the glossary using a CSV file format.
- Support import and export of settings to and from the glossary using a CSV file format.
- Customize tooltip style (font, size, colors).
- Allows to display related posts and terms.
- Multisite support.
- Supports using synonyms and variations to each term.
- Mobile friendly.
- Supports changing permalink structure for glossary terms.
- Fully compatible with the WPML plugin.
- Allows to parse the ACF fields with of various(selectable) types.
- Allows to disable creation of the glossary term pages
- (NEW) Allows to display glossary terms as footnotes instead of tooltips
- Over 130 configuration options in total!
- Includes all features of the Free and Pro Versions.
- Allows to choose one from over 18 templates for the Glossary Index page
- (NEW) Supports the whitelist/blacklist of terms on individual posts and or whole categories
- (NEW) Supports for the alternative meanings for the same term
- Supports adding and displaying a featured image to the terms tooltip.
- Supports customizing the term page template.
- Supports displaying “Share This” widget for sharing terms in social medias.
- Supports Google Translate integration.
- Supports creating and displaying multiple glossary categories.
- Shows a search box in the Glossary page.
- Over 10 helpful shortcodes.
- Supports integration with Merriam-Webster Dictionary and Thesaurus
- Search & Replace engine allows to parse and replace terms on the fly.
- Eastern languages support allows to parse terms without spaces between them.
- Support adding abbreviation to each term.
- Highlights terms in comments section.
- Includes a frontend turn tooltip on/off button.
- Over 240 configuration options in total!
- Includes all features of the Free, Pro and Pro+ Versions.
- (NEW) Supports ChatGPT integration
- Supports for defining terms in different languages
- Supports adding a custom link to the terms
- Supports embedding audio in a tooltip.
- Supports embedding video in a tooltip.
- Supports Wikipedia and Wiktionary integration.
- Supports creating a multilanguage glossary.
- Supports Amazon Products integration.
- Supports WooCommerce Products integration.
- Supports adding tags to terms.
- Double click support allows to show a definition from an alternative source.
- Allows to parse an image Alt tag to show a tooltip.
- Supports the order in which similar terms are parsed.
- Allows site visitors to embed your terms on their site using an iframe.
- Supports more than one definition for the same term.
- Over 300 configuration options in total!
The Glossary plugin creates tooltips with JavaScript. They are based on the article written by Michael Leigeber here
The Tooltip can be customized and styled through the tooltip.css and tooltip.js files.
The alphabetical index for the Glossary index is based on jQuery ListNav Plugin
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Note: You must have a call to wp_head() in your template in order for the Tooltip js and css to work properly. If your theme does not support them you will need to link to these files manually in your theme (not recommended).
Tooltip in a Post using Skins
Glossary Term Page with Related Articles
Glossary Index Page
Glossary Index Page - Second Template
Admin's Glossary Terms
Plugin's Settings
Log Information
Statistics of Usage
Plugin's Settings Tooltip Tab
Video In Transparent Tooltip
Merriam-Webster Embedded Content
Wikipedia Embedded Content
Import / Export
No. It can be called anything. In fact you don’t even need to have a main Glossary page.
No. Just leave that page blank. The plugin will create an unordered list of terms automatically.
Simply add a term under the ‘Glossary’ section in the admnistration interface. Title it the glossary term you want (ex. “WordPress”) and put the term’s definition into the body (ex. “A neato Blogging Platform”).
Just add it and then change it. The links for your glossary terms are added to your page and post content on the fly so your glossary links will always be up to date.
Just wrap the paragraph with [glossary_exclude] paragraph text [/glossary_exclude].
You can use glossaryLink. You can also define glossaryLinkMain if you wish to have a different style in the main glossary page
Release Date: 25 December 2023
* Update package info
Release Date: 3 December 2023
* Improved compatibility with screen readers
Release Date: 25th May 2023
* Replaced the option “Avoid parsing protected tags” with “Exclude HTML tags from parsing”
Release Date: 17th May 2023
* Fixed the plugin not highlighting terms on the Astra theme
Release Date: 11th May 2023
* Fixed the conflict between the plugin and the Easy Table of Contents
Release Date: 27th April 2023
* Added option to fix the endless loop error on the Glossary Index page
Release Date: 21nd April 2023
* Fixed issues with the Glossary Index when the alphabetic index is missing
* Removed the legacy set_timeout code from the main file
Release Date: 22nd March 2023
* Update package info
Release Date: 15th March 2023
* Bug: Small bugfixes
* Improvement: Improved the performance of the Glossary Index, rewritten the caching system to speed up the sorting
Release Date: 25th Feb 2023
* (ONLY IN Ecommerce version!) New Feature: ChatGPT integration
* Improvement: Changed the way synonyms/variants/abbreviations are working internally
* Improvement: Performance related code tweaks (for Glossary Index mostly)
* Improvement: Editlink in toolitp now opens in the new tab
* Bug: Fixed the bug that stopped the synonyms from being parsed in correct order
* Bug: Fixed the bug that caused synonyms to appear in the wrong letter (same as the base term)
* Bug: Fixed the warning about the “forceHighlight” variable not being defined
* Bug: Fixed the bug with the underline styles of the parsed terms
* Bug: Fixed some deprecated warnings for PHP 8.2
Release Date: 29th Dec 2022
* Bug: Fixed the warning about the “forceHighlight” variable not being defined
* Bug: Fixed the bug with the underline styles of the parsed terms
Release Date: 17th Dec 2022
* Improvement: Improved the performance of the parsing when the “Highlight first term occurrence” is enabled
* Improvement/debug: Added the option to rename the [glossary] shortcode
* Improved: Added the clarified description of features in all the plugin versions
* Bug: Fixed bug which stopped one of the setting tabs from collapsing
Release Date: 9th Nov 2022
* Replace Internal support links
Release Date: 30th Oct 2022
* Bug: Fixed the issue with tooltips not beign closed on mouse out
Release Date: 20th Oct 2022
* Bug: Fixed the fatal error
Release Date: 20th Oct 2022
Release Date: 6th Sep 2022
Release Date: 22nd May 2022
Release Date: Jan 2022
Release Date: 31st Aug 2021
Release Date: 26th July 2021
Release Date: 13th July 2021
Release Date: 9th July 2021
Release Date: 25th June 2021
For the changelog of earlier versions, please refer to the changelog on cminds.com