Plugin Author
Scott Reilly
(@coffee2code)
WordPress & Plugin Developer
@embracing-motherhood : Hi, what you want to accomplish sounds exactly like what the plugin offers.
This is how to go about using it:
1. Install the plugin via your usual means.
2. Activate the plugin on the site.
3. Go to the plugin’s settings page. You’ll find it in the side menu under “Settings”, called “Text Hover”.
4. In the big text box, put in the text you want to want to receive hover text, followed by the hover text itself. An example:
To Kill a Mockingbird => A classic by Harper Lee
Kindle Paperwhite => Amazon’s fantastic e-reader
Be sure to only put one per line.
With the above defined, in your posts wherever you had (or will) write “Kindle Paperwhite”, that text will be automatically modified so that if the visitor hovers their mouse over the text, a hover text popup will display “Amazon’s fantastic e-reader”.
The actual styling of the text in a post is left up to the default browser handling (which is typically a dashed or dotted underline). Use of CSS could provide greater control on appearances, but that gets more into design; the plugin just makes doing that possible).
Does that help? If not, where are you experiencing issues?
Have you already tried and got no result? If so, make sure the words you want to provide hovers for are separated from html tags by at least a space, and that they do not appear at the end of a line.
