When hovering over a word or phrase show the user created definition.
Author: | chorton2227 (profile at wordpress.org) |
WordPress version required: | 3.5.1 |
WordPress version tested: | 4.9.26 |
Plugin version: | 1.3.1 |
Added to WordPress repository: | 05-06-2014 |
Last updated: | 04-08-2018
Warning! This plugin has not been updated in over 2 years. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress.
|
Rating, %: | 74 |
Rated by: | 3 |
Plugin URI: | |
Total downloads: | 4 010 |
Active installs: | 40+ |

Click to start download
|
WP Glossary Hover adds helpful tooltips to user defined glossary terms. Terms are highlighted and when hovered over shows the term definition.
Features
- Only highlight first occurrence of term.
- Specify if glossary terms are case sensitive.
- Enable by post type, i.e. specify if posts, pages, etc. are parsed for terms.
- Protect certain html tags, e.g. headers, links, quotes, etc., from being parsed for terms.
- Uses jQuery UI Tooltips, with ability to custom various settings and themes.
- Style highlighted terms, i.e. change color and underline style.
Screenshots

A screenshot of the general options tab for the plugin.

A screenshot of the tooltip options tab for the plugin.

A screenshot of the styles options tab for the plugin.

A screenshot of the tooltip in action.
FAQ
Installation Instructions
Using The WordPress Dashboard
- Navigate to the ‘Add New’ in the plugins dashboard
- Search for ‘WP Glossary Hover’
- Click ‘Install Now’
- Activate the plugin on the Plugin dashboard
Uploading in WordPress Dashboard
- Navigate to the ‘Add New’ in the plugins dashboard
- Navigate to the ‘Upload’ area
- Select
wp-glossary-hover.zip
from your computer
- Click ‘Install Now’
- Activate the plugin in the Plugin dashboard
Using FTP
- Download
wp-glossary-hover.zip
- Extract the
wp-glossary-hover
directory to your computer
- Upload the
wp-glossary-hover
directory to the /wp-content/plugins/
directory
- Activate the plugin in the Plugin dashboard
ChangeLog
1.3.1
- Escape regular expression references
1.3.0
- Add ‘u’ modifier to term regex pattern, support ‘non-Latin’ characters.
- Update to jquery-ui 1.11.4.
- Only show the bottom border for tooltips.
1.2.3
- Fix errors in versions of php earlier than php 5.4.
- Remove the ‘…’ when not limiting the characters in the definition.
1.2.2
- Fix encoding between html and xml entities.
1.2.1
- Decode html entities before adding them as xml.
- Add new link underline style
none
.
- Remove extra markup
<!DOCTYPE><html><body></body></html>
generated by DomDocument.
- When limiting the number of characters in the definition tooltip, end at the end of a word, and trim all non alpha-numeric characters.
1.2.0
- Enabled comment support for glossary terms.
- Added to enable links to glossary term pages.
- Added setting to limit the tooltip length.
- Escape html sepcial characters in definition.
- Strip tags in tooltip definition, instead of escaping tags.
- Fix description for
Enabled Post Types
setting.
1.1.0
- Fix fatal error on install.
- Remove test code in uninstall.php.
1.0.1
1.0.0