by Scott Reilly 4.5 (17 reviews)

Text Hover

Name: Text Hover
Rating: 4.5 (17 reviews)
Author: Scott Reilly

Add hover text (aka tooltips) to content in posts. Handy for providing explanations of names, terms, phrases, abbreviations, and acronyms.

Text Hover ranks #5,270 among WordPress.org plugins with 1,000+ active installations, is #131 of 1,418 in the Taxonomy category, a 4.5/5 rating from 17 reviews, and was last updated Mar 23, 2022. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Tested up to WP 5.9 (Current: 7.1)

v4.2 Current Version v4.2

Updated 4 years ago Last Update on 23 Mar, 2022

Refreshed 11 hours ago Last Refreshed on

#131 of 1,418 in Taxonomy Top 10% by installs No update in over a year

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Security History

Source: WPVulnerability

1 known vulnerability on record · 0 in the last 24 months · checked 1 month ago

Mar 28, 2022

Text Hover [text-hover] < 4.2 (closed)

CVE-2022-0737 · Fixed in v4.2

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Plugin Details

Version: 4.2
Last Updated: Mar 23, 2022
Requires WP: 4.9+
Tested Up To: 5.9
PHP Version: N/A
Author: Scott Reilly

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Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5
Reviews: 17
Support Threads: 0
Resolved: 0%

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TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

This plugin is for site owners who want to add hover tooltips explaining names, terms, phrases, abbreviations, or acronyms in posts and pages. It solves the problem of providing extra context for specific words without altering the visible text, unlike a simple find-and-replace.

Define custom hover text terms
Enable hover text in comments
Case insensitive matching option
Limit to one replacement per term
qTip2 tooltip rendering
Default browser tooltip option
Numerous developer hooks and filters
Customizable filter priority

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Text Hover

The plugin currently makes use of the standard HTML tag abbr to specify the terms and their hover text. Browsers have default handling and display of abbr. It's possibly that the CSS for your theme is overriding the default display. I use the following in my site's styles.css file to ensure it displays for me in the manner I prefer (which, by the same token, you can use more CSS formatting to further format the hover terms) : abbr { text-decoration: underline dotted #000; }

No. The plugin filters post content on-the-fly.

Yes, if they include strings that you've now defined as terms.

By default, the plugin filters the post content, post excerpt fields, widget text, and optionally comments and comment excerpts. You can use the 'c2c_text_hover_filters' filter to modify that behavior (see Hooks section).

The easiest way would be to add "the_title" (or some other filter's name) as a line in the "More filters" setting. That setting allows any additional specified filters to be processed for text hovers. You can also programmatically add to the list of filters that get processed for text hover terms. See the Hooks section for an example.

By default, yes. There is a setting you can change to make it case insensitive. Or you can use the 'c2c_text_hover_case_sensitive' filter (see Hooks section). Note that the option applies to all terms/abbreviations. If you want to selectively have terms/acronyms be case insensitive, you should leave the case sensitive setting checked and add a listing for each case variation you wish to support.

By default, yes. There is a setting you can change so that only the first occurrence of the term in the post gets hovered. Or if you are a coder, you can use the 'c2c_text_hover_replace_once' filter (see Hooks section).

Yes, but only if you have the pretty tooltips enabled (via settings or the filter). The class you want to style in your custom CSS is '.text-hover-qtip'.

Yes. While this plugin is compatible with many other plugins that modify post and widget text, this plugin has explicit built-in support for Advanced Custom Fields and Elementor, which provide additional content areas. This plugin provides hooks that can be used to enable compatibility with other plugins and themes. If you know the name of the filter provided by a plugin, you can add it to the "More filters" setting to have its value processed for text hover.

The plugin's settings page is found at "Settings" -> "Text Hover" in the admin sidebar menu. In order to see that link in the menu and to access the plugin's settings page to configure the plugin, you must be logged in as an administrator. More specifically, you must be a user with the 'manage_options' and 'unfiltered_html' capabilities, which by default are capabilities of the 'administrator' role. If you have a custom role, or your administrator role has been customized, such that both capabilities are not assigned to you, then you cannot configure the plugin.