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Adding a glossary to your website can be a smart move to improve your users’ reading experience and significantly improve SEO and rankings.
If you’re looking for the ultimate glossary plugin for your WordPress site, look no further: you’ve found it!
Glossary by Codeat is the freemium WordPress plugin that allows you to create a glossary for your website and turn your content into a complete and navigable resource. It comes with a free and a PRO version.
Glossary by Codeat automatically generates word lists from your content and creates styled tooltips, enhancing user engagement without manual effort.
The terms and definitions will be grouped in a glossary or dictionary section and automatically linked to the corresponding words within your posts and pages.
You can use Glossary by Codeat with the classic WordPress editor or with Gutenberg: it’s 100% compatible.
Let’s say you have a food blog.
How great would it be to show your readers a tooltip (and a direct link) to the description of an ingredient (or kitchen utensil) without them having to leave your website?
And what if you run an online store selling fishing gear?
With the Glossary plugin, you can provide detailed descriptions of your merchandise and suggest related products directly from your store’s pages.
Are you a big fan of Back to the Future and want to create a digital encyclopedia that covers all aspects of your favorite saga?
With Glossary by Codeat, it’s a piece of cake! See this demo.
You can use Glossary by Codeat to include your affiliation URLs and descriptions to some of your key terms. This way, you can turn the tooltip area of the pop-up into a revenue machine! Cool, uh?
And what’s even cooler is that you can use Glossary by Codeat for free!
The basic version of Glossary is – and will always be – free.
The free version of Glossary by Codeat is jam-packed with nifty features! Its powerful engine automatically links every instance of a term (or set of terms) to a predefined list of definitions.
Here are some of the things you can do with the free version of Glossary by Codeat:
The free version of Glossary by Codeat doesn’t include dedicated support.
If you need help, take a look at our demo site, read our documentation, or head over to the dedicated WordPress support forum.
The PRO version tops all the fantastic features of Codeat Glossary Free with a set of useful extras that extend styling and customization opportunities. Let’s see them all in detail:
The PRO version of Glossary by Codeat includes all the free features plus several behavior-controlling tools to enhance your reader’s experience.
Here are some of the things you can do with the PRO version of Glossary by Codeat:
The PRO version of Glossary by Codeat includes dedicated support.
If you have any doubts or questions, our friendly support team will assist you as quickly as possible.
Our documentation covers the premium features with screenshots.
Not happy with the plugin?
Take advantage of our 14 days money-back guarantee!
glossary.zip from your computerglossary.zipglossary directory to your computerglossary directory to the /wp-content/plugins/ directoryOf course!
Our extensive documentation covers all the features and tips to make the most of the Glossary plugin.
Glossary by Codeat is designed to work seamlessly in any language, supporting both RTL (right-to-left) and LTR (left-to-right) alphabets, as well as non-Latin fonts. We have extensively tested the plugin with the most common languages worldwide, ensuring broad accessibility and reliability.
Beyond the most common languages, we have rigorously tested Glossary with the following to ensure optimal performance: Hebrew, Arabic, German, Japanese, Cherokee, Russian and Greek.
We welcome all feedback on these and other languages.
Yes! If you own a Premium Glossary license, you can use our plugin with ACF.
Glossary will add a checkbox on ACF labeled as Add support for Glossary in your fields.
This way, you will be able to activate the filtering in ACF for customizing your fields.
Read our documentation for more details.
Yes, Glossary works with both backend and frontend caching.
Caching can be applied by a WordPress plugin and/or by your host: whatever the case, you don’t have to worry about compatibility.
If you’re using a backend caching plugin, the cache is refreshed every few hours or every day at most, so this won’t pose any problem with Glossary.
On the other hand, if you’re using front-end caching and Glossary Premium, you should take a few extra measures. Every time you edit your settings, for example, you change your tooltips’ style, you need to clear your frontend cache.
The way you clear the cache may vary according to the plugin or hosting you’re using, so please refer to their documentation to learn how to do it.
Yes!
If you’re running a Multisite install and managing multiple websites, Glossary can automatically serve all the network websites where our plugin is active.
To work in this environment, the Glossary plugin requires two elements:
Read our documentation for more details.
Yes, Glossary is 100% compatible with WPML and Polylang.
To make them work together, you will have to set the language in each post type where you wish to execute Glossary.
In this way, our plugin will recognize the terms and will manage the respective descriptions accordingly.
Read our documentation for more details.
Most of the time, yes, it does.
On the other hand, there are dozens of Visual Composer/Page Builders plugins in the WordPress ecosystem, and a large amount of them don’t behave in a standard way, which can represent an issue.
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| 2.3.19 | Download | Stable |
| 2.3.18 | Download | Stable |
| 2.3.17 | Download | Stable |
| 2.3.16 | Download | Stable |
| 2.3.15 | Download | Stable |
| 2.3.13 | Download | Stable |
| 2.3.12 | Download | Stable |
| 2.3.11 | Download | Stable |
| 2.3.10 | Download | Stable |
| 2.3.0 | Download | Stable |
| 2.2.42 | Download | Stable |
| 2.2.41 | Download | Stable |
| 2.1.33 | Download | Stable |
| 2.0.20 | Download | Stable |
| 1.8.18 | Download | Stable |
| 1.7.24 | Download | Stable |
| 1.6.9 | Download | Stable |
| 1.5.3 | Download | Stable |
| Development | Download | Trunk |