Title: WP Glossary Hover
Author: chorton2227
Published: <strong>June 5, 2014</strong>
Last modified: August 4, 2018

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# WP Glossary Hover

 By [chorton2227](https://profiles.wordpress.org/chorton2227/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wp-glossary-hover.1.3.1.zip)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-glossary-hover/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-glossary-hover/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-glossary-hover/#installation)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-glossary-hover/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-glossary-hover/)

## Description

WP Glossary Hover adds helpful tooltips to user defined glossary terms. Terms are
highlighted and when hovered over shows the term definition.

#### Features

 * Only highlight first occurrence of term.
 * Specify if glossary terms are case sensitive.
 * Enable by post type, i.e. specify if posts, pages, etc. are parsed for terms.
 * Protect certain html tags, e.g. headers, links, quotes, etc., from being parsed
   for terms.
 * Uses [jQuery UI Tooltips](http://jqueryui.com/tooltip/), with ability to custom
   various settings and themes.
 * Style highlighted terms, i.e. change color and underline style.

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * A screenshot of the general options tab for the plugin.
 * [[
 * A screenshot of the tooltip options tab for the plugin.
 * [[
 * A screenshot of the styles options tab for the plugin.
 * [[
 * A screenshot of the tooltip in action.

## Installation

#### Using The WordPress Dashboard

 1. Navigate to the ‘Add New’ in the plugins dashboard
 2. Search for ‘WP Glossary Hover’
 3. Click ‘Install Now’
 4. Activate the plugin on the Plugin dashboard

#### Uploading in WordPress Dashboard

 1. Navigate to the ‘Add New’ in the plugins dashboard
 2. Navigate to the ‘Upload’ area
 3. Select `wp-glossary-hover.zip` from your computer
 4. Click ‘Install Now’
 5. Activate the plugin in the Plugin dashboard

#### Using FTP

 1. Download `wp-glossary-hover.zip`
 2. Extract the `wp-glossary-hover` directory to your computer
 3. Upload the `wp-glossary-hover` directory to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
 4. Activate the plugin in the Plugin dashboard

## FAQ

  Installation Instructions

#### Using The WordPress Dashboard

 1. Navigate to the ‘Add New’ in the plugins dashboard
 2. Search for ‘WP Glossary Hover’
 3. Click ‘Install Now’
 4. Activate the plugin on the Plugin dashboard

#### Uploading in WordPress Dashboard

 1. Navigate to the ‘Add New’ in the plugins dashboard
 2. Navigate to the ‘Upload’ area
 3. Select `wp-glossary-hover.zip` from your computer
 4. Click ‘Install Now’
 5. Activate the plugin in the Plugin dashboard

#### Using FTP

 1. Download `wp-glossary-hover.zip`
 2. Extract the `wp-glossary-hover` directory to your computer
 3. Upload the `wp-glossary-hover` directory to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
 4. Activate the plugin in the Plugin dashboard

## Reviews

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/20877696a7de3497b43227ddd487a8209426fb564c9398d017626dd1f0138504?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Crashes the site](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/crashes-the-site/)󠁿

 [dupls](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dupls/) September 6, 2018 1 reply

When I enable this plugin it breaks my site. I had to uninstall the plugin through
phpmyadmin and under wp_options > active_plugins remove the module to get the site
backup.

 [ Read all 3 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-glossary-hover/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

“WP Glossary Hover” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ chorton2227 ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/chorton2227/)

“WP Glossary Hover” has been translated into 1 locale. Thank you to [the translators](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/wp-glossary-hover/contributors)
for their contributions.

[Translate “WP Glossary Hover” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/wp-glossary-hover)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-glossary-hover/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/wp-glossary-hover/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/wp-glossary-hover/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/wp-glossary-hover/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.3.1

 * Escape regular expression references

#### 1.3.0

 * Add ‘u’ modifier to term regex pattern, support ‘non-Latin’ characters.
 * Update to jquery-ui 1.11.4.
 * Only show the bottom border for tooltips.

#### 1.2.3

 * Fix errors in versions of php earlier than php 5.4.
 * Remove the ‘…’ when not limiting the characters in the definition.

#### 1.2.2

 * Fix encoding between html and xml entities.

#### 1.2.1

 * Decode html entities before adding them as xml.
 * Add new link underline style `none`.
 * Remove extra markup `<!DOCTYPE><html><body></body></html>` generated by DomDocument.
 * When limiting the number of characters in the definition tooltip, end at the 
   end of a word, and trim all non alpha-numeric characters.

#### 1.2.0

 * Enabled comment support for glossary terms.
 * Added to enable links to glossary term pages.
 * Added setting to limit the tooltip length.
 * Escape html sepcial characters in definition.
 * Strip tags in tooltip definition, instead of escaping tags.
 * Fix description for `Enabled Post Types` setting.

#### 1.1.0

 * Fix fatal error on install.
 * Remove test code in uninstall.php.

#### 1.0.1

 * Update README.txt.

#### 1.0.0

 * First release of plugin.

## Meta

 *  Version **1.3.1**
 *  Last updated **8 years ago**
 *  Active installations **30+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.5.1 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **4.9.29**
 *  Languages
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-glossary-hover/) and [French (France)](https://fr.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-glossary-hover/).
 *  [Translate into your language](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/wp-glossary-hover)
 * Tags
 * [definition](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/definition/)[glossary](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/glossary/)
   [hover](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/hover/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-glossary-hover/advanced/)

## Ratings

 3.7 out of 5 stars.

 *  [  2 5-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-glossary-hover/reviews/?filter=5)
 *  [  0 4-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-glossary-hover/reviews/?filter=4)
 *  [  0 3-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-glossary-hover/reviews/?filter=3)
 *  [  0 2-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-glossary-hover/reviews/?filter=2)
 *  [  1 1-star review     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-glossary-hover/reviews/?filter=1)

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## Contributors

 *   [ chorton2227 ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/chorton2227/)

## Support

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