Glossary Tooltip – Highlight Terms & Show Tooltips
by Jumedeen khan 5 (2 reviews)

Glossary Tooltip – Highlight Terms & Show Tooltips

The best glossary tooltip plugin to automatically highlight glossary terms and display tooltips with definitions. Boost SEO & UI with automatic links.

Glossary Tooltip ranks #15,609 among WordPress.org plugins with 100+ active installations, is #85 of 526 in the Education & Support category, a 5/5 rating from 2 reviews, and was last updated Oct 21, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Compatible with WP 7.1.4
v3.0.6 Current Version v3.0.6
Updated 2 weeks ago Last Update on 21 Oct, 2026
Refreshed 1 week ago Last Refreshed on
#85 of 526 in Education & Support Top 25% by installs Downloads -49.2% this week Actively maintained
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Review 5 out of 5
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TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

This plugin is for website owners, bloggers, and documentation or educational site operators who use technical terminology visitors may not understand. It automatically highlights glossary terms in content and shows definition tooltips on hover, reducing bounce rate and improving internal linking, SEO, and user engagement.

  • Automatic glossary term highlighting
  • Hover tooltips with definitions
  • Glossary index page (A–Z)
  • Live glossary item search
  • Case-sensitive or insensitive matching
  • Optional content caching
  • Custom tooltip colors and width
  • [glossary_list] shortcode

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Glossary Tooltip – Highlight Terms & Show Tooltips

No. Terms are detected and linked automatically once you publish them.
Add the [glossary-list] shortcode to any page, or select a glossary index page under Glossary → Settings.
Yes. Every post, page, and supported post type has its own Highlight and Tooltip options, each set to Default, On, or Off.
Wrap it with [glossary-exclude]...[/glossary-exclude]. For a whole post, set its Highlight option to Off.
Yes. Add synonyms or abbreviations and each one will be highlighted and link to the same term.
No. The plugin skips headings and existing links by default; both behaviors are optional in the settings.
You can highlight each term once, a set number of times, every Nth occurrence, or every occurrence.
Yes. Position, offset, size, padding, border, radius, style, and colors are all under Glossary → Settings → Tooltip.
Go to Glossary → Settings → Advanced → Flush Rewrite Rules, or Settings → Permalinks → Save Changes.
Export or import settings as JSON from the Advanced tab. Terms move with Tools → Export and Tools → Import.

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