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CM Tooltip Glossary – The #1 WordPress Glossary Plugin

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!

Glossary Terms Pages, Links and Glossary 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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