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Glossy

Description

Glossy provides an easy way to insert predefined text for use throughout your site. If Tippy is installed, definitions can show via a tooltip. Provides an easy way to specify if tooltips should show in a tooltip or inline by default. Also provides a shortcode attribute for changing the inline setting on a per-term basis.

Glossy adds the shortcodes gs and glossy. For example:

[gs NYSE] – this is the quick way.
[glossy term=”NYSE”] – a longer form, does the same as [gs NYSE]

You can also specify the inline attribute:

[glossy term=”NYSE” inline=”false”] – show the definition in a tooltip
[glossy term=”NYSE” inline=”true”] – show the definition in the body of your post content.
[gs inline=”true” nyse] – Same as above.

Terms are defined in the WordPress dashboard and can be used throughout your site.

The tooltip is created by the Tippy plugin, so showing definitions in a tooltip requires Tippy in order to work.

If you want to create a page that shows visitors an index of all your Glossy entries, use the [glossyindex] shortcode. Just insert [glossyindex] into any post or page and it will take care of the rest. By default, it shows a header with an index of first characters. You can turn it off by using [glossyindex header=”off”]

Screenshots

  • Visiting the Glossy entries list for the first time.
  • Adding a new Glossy entry
  • Data filled in for a Glossy entry
  • Visiting the Glossy entries list with an entry
  • Setting up a post using the Glossy shortcode [gs NYSE]
  • Viewing the tooltip generated by Glossy + Tippy

Installation

Upload the plugin into your wp-content/plugins directory
Activate the plugin through the dashboard
Make sure you have Tippy installed and activated
Visit the Glossy settings in the Dashboard sidebar and configure as desired

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Contributors & Developers

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Changelog

2.3.5

  • Fixed an issue setting the width and height

2.3.4

  • Fixed how the options are passed to Tippy.

2.3.3

  • Updated to work with the latest version of Tippy.

2.3.2

  • Fixed some errors with CSV import/export

2.3.1

  • Tweak so processed shortcodes won’t be recognized if wrapped in double brackets – ie, [[glossy]] – often used for demonstration purposes.

2.3.0

  • Added a new option to use Tippy’s experimental content method. Will allow users to display content that otherwise might not work.

2.2.1

  • Fixed an issue with UTF8 characters in the glossyindex

2.2.0

  • Shortcode once again works when passed through the do_shortcode() function.

2.1.1

  • Fixed glitch when glossy entries contain a $ sign.

2.1.0

  • New import/export option
  • New access option – choose which user role has access to manage entries
  • Glossy can now receive any attribute available for Tippy
  • New attributes useful with inline glossyindex: showTerm, beforeDef, afterDef, beforeTerm, afterTerm
  • Improvements to admin loading

2.0.0

  • Fix issue causing extra output when plugin activated
  • New checks to ensure Tippy is installed
  • New checks for the Glossy db table when plugin activated
  • Improved handling of gs, glossy, and glossyindex shortcodes – gs and glossy can be used interchangeably
  • Can specify header=”on/off” for each Glossy term.
  • Global setting for header on/off in the Glossy dashboard settings page.
  • New options for glossyindex – these are not yet finished, pushing out version 2 early to address some bugs
  • Glossy is now OOP.
  • Upcoming: export/import of terms. Easily backup terms, load into a new site, or even load new terms from a csv file.
  • Upcoming: additional access control options, allow more of your users access to Glossy terms.

1.5.7

  • Fix issue with plugin crashing install when Tippy is not installed

1.5.6

  • Fix glossyindex

1.5.5

  • Additional shortcode work. [gs] and [glossy] are now processed the same way so both support full attributes and title swap (ie: [glossy term=”myterm”]show this title[/glossy])

1.5.4

  • Fix issue with gs shortcode. Note this reverts gs to its previous behavior – attributes cannot be passed to it at this time.

1.5.3

  • Additional tweaks to inline terms
  • Fix to restore tooltip previews in the admin Manage Glossy area

1.5.2

  • Added the inline attribute to glossyindex

1.5.1

  • Tweak to fix inline settings for [glossyindex] and admin display

1.5.0

  • Added a new option to turn on wpautop() formatting for glossy content.

1.4.0

  • Improved the gs shortcode so it can be used with optional term and inline attributes.

1.3.0

  • Added new Inline option under Manage entries
  • Added inline attribute for the shortcode; inline=”true” or inline=”false” specifies whether to show the definition inline or in a tooltip.

1.2.8

  • Glossy tables are now created with utf8 character set (thanks to DonySuXX for the suggestion)

1.2.7

  • Fixed a bug introduced with 1.2.6
  • Fixed a compatibility issue with the latest version of Tippy

1.2.6

  • $wpdb->prepare tweaks

1.2.5

  • Fixes the issue where extra content was being sent to WordPress.

1.2.4

  • Fixed bug when the same entry is used more than once in a post
  • Tweaks for custom title text; it replaces the Tippy anchor, not the Tippy title.

1.2.3

  • Fixed bug when trying to use an entry name that does not exist
  • Fixed bug when using gs with an entry name that has two or more words
  • Fixed bug when gs was not used as a self-closing tag (ie: [gs myName /])
  • Added the ability to use custom title text: [gs myName]Display this text[/gs]

1.2.2

  • Tweak to entry search method

1.2.1

  • Fixed bug on dashboard page when no entries are in the system
  • Fixed index page bug when entry title contains an apostraphe

1.2.0

  • Improved management of entries

1.1.3

  • Should fix sorting issue with entries on a glossary page. Please let me know if you see additional sorting problems.

1.1.2

  • Fixed an issue when showing an index of entries that don’t have a title specified.

1.1.0

  • Added a new glossyindex shortcode to allow the creation of an index page
  • Added the WYSIWYG editor for adding Glossy content (Note that WP 3.3 is required because of this addition)
  • Added the glossy shortcode as an alternative to the gs shortcode
  • Glossy should now handle any shortcodes included in the entry

1.0.1

  • Fixed tagging glitch

1.0.0

  • Initial release