CM Tooltip Glossary – Powerful Glossary Plugin

The CM Glossary Tooltip is a robust WordPress plugin. It empowers you to establish an extensive knowledgebase 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!

Glossary Terms Pages, Links and Glosary Index

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.

Glossary Tooltips

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.

Glossary Premium Editions

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.

Glossary Plugin Introduction Video

Glossary Plugin Use-Cases

(Some of these use cases might include pro plugin features)

Dictionary – Creates a dictionary of specifically used terms on your site. Support multiple languages.
Tooltip – Adds tooltip as an anchor to predefined terms that are contained in your site.
Knowledge base – Creates a knowledge base of useful terms and definitions which includes files and images.
Synonyms – Keep and display synonyms of terms that you are using
Lexicon – Builds a lexicon of terms.
Vocabulary – Builds a vocabulary of custom words and expressions.
Explanations – Explains the meanings of words in your posts or pages.
Translate – Translates terms and definitions into any defined language using Google Translate.
Wikipedia – Add Wikipedia content to your site.
YouTube – Show YouTube / Vimeo videos once hovering over a term
Music – Include mp3 voice or music file for each tooltip
Amazon – Enhance your site with Tooltips including Amazon product recommendation
ChatGPT – Automatically add content for each term using ChatGPT

Free Glossary Plugin Features

Automatically generates a Glossary index of terms.
Ability to show the A-Z Glossary index as a list or as tiles.
The Glossary index is limited by 500 terms.
Each glossary term has its own unique post.
The tooltip window can optionally appear when the term is hovered over by the cursor.
Term pages can be linked directly from posts or pages.
Several filters to optimize the Tooltip window and limit the length of description displayed.
Prevents the glossary from parsing text, when needed, by using a Shortcode [glossary_exclude] text [/glossary_exclude].
Forces the glossary to parse text, when needed, by using a Shortcode [cm_tooltip_parse] text [/cm_tooltip_parse].
Support Excerpts (if they exist) as a hover-over text that appears in the Tooltip window.
Control the location and area where the Tooltip appears (pages, posts, homepage)
Control if the Tooltip should appear more than once.
Supports UTF-8

Additional Features Available With the Glossary Pro Edition Version

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!

List of Glossary Pro+ Edition Features

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!

List of the Glossary Ecommerce Edition Features

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!

Addons & Extensions

CM Tooltip Custom Taxonomies

CM Tooltip Search Console

CM Tooltip Glossary Remote Import

CM Tooltip Glossary Community Terms

CM Tooltip Glossary Log & Statistics

CM Tooltip Glossary Widgets

Code and Style Issues

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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Glossary Plugin Changelog

= 4.2.11 =
* Fixed the issue with the missing aria-label for tooltip

4.2.10

Release Date: 25 December 2023
* Update package info

4.2.9

Release Date: 3 December 2023
* Improved compatibility with screen readers

4.2.8

Release Date: 25th May 2023
* Replaced the option “Avoid parsing protected tags” with “Exclude HTML tags from parsing”

4.2.7

Release Date: 17th May 2023
* Fixed the plugin not highlighting terms on the Astra theme

4.2.6

Release Date: 11th May 2023
* Fixed the conflict between the plugin and the Easy Table of Contents

4.2.5

Release Date: 27th April 2023
* Added option to fix the endless loop error on the Glossary Index page

4.2.4

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

4.2.3

Release Date: 22nd March 2023
* Update package info

4.2.2

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

4.2.0

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

4.1.6

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

4.1.5

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

4.1.4

Release Date: 9th Nov 2022
* Replace Internal support links

4.1.3

Release Date: 30th Oct 2022
* Bug: Fixed the issue with tooltips not beign closed on mouse out

4.1.2

Release Date: 20th Oct 2022
* Bug: Fixed the fatal error

4.1.1

Release Date: 20th Oct 2022

Bug: Fixed the positioning of the tooltip on the keyboard focus
General bugfixes

4.1.0

Release Date: 6th Sep 2022

Security fix

4.0.10

Release Date: 22nd May 2022

Bug fix and compatibility to WP 6

4.0.5 29th

Release Date: Jan 2022

Fixed bugs
Improved the builders compatibility (Oxygen builder, Elementor)

3.9.21

Release Date: 31st Aug 2021

Fixed the issue with the missing aria-label
Fixed the missing esc for attributes in shortcode

3.9.20

Release Date: 26th July 2021

Fixed the bug in the comment count
Fixed the bug in settings

3.9.19

Release Date: 13th July 2021

Re-added the option to distinguish between case sensitive/case insensitive term search
Fixed the issue with the text widgets parsing
Fixed the PHP 8.0.0 bug

3.9.18

Release Date: 9th July 2021

Fixed the bug in AMP class
Added the option to hide from search results

3.9.17

Release Date: 25th June 2021

Improved WCAG compliance
Fixed the package issue
Fixed the delay when showing tooltips

Earlier versions

For the changelog of earlier versions, please refer to the changelog on cminds.com

CM Tooltip Glossary – Powerful Glossary Plugin