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September 11, 2025
First Released
May 23, 2019
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This plugin registers a glossary custom post type for defining words, acronyms or terms. Those terms will be highlighted in public posts, with the definition displayed in a popup tooltip.
To use the plugin, simply install and activate, then visit the Glossary section in your wp-admin dashboard to begin adding glossary terms.
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Changelog
1.2
- Bump Tested up to.
- Don’t create glossary hovercards for phrases within
<option>tags. - Don’t create glossary hovercards wtihin oEmbed responses.
- PHP Notice fixes.
- Fixes to ensure that the matched text isn’t past the current element.
- PHP 8 fatal fix,
array_merge() does not accept unknown named parameters.
1.1
- Added hoverIntent to avoid accidental showing of the glossary items when scrolling the page.
1.0
- Switch to a different tooltip library to avoid some glitchy behaviour.
- Eliminate some unnecessary highlighting, and generally improve the accuracy of term matching.
- Fix some visual glitches.
- Cooperate better with O2 auto-linking and tagging.
0.1
- Initial public release.
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