Welcome to the official documentation for Glossary Tooltip.
Whether you’re installing the plugin for the first time or looking to customize advanced settings, this documentation will help you get the most out of Glossary Tooltip.
Glossary Tooltip automatically highlights glossary terms throughout your WordPress content, displays informative tooltips on hover, and creates a searchable glossary index—all while remaining lightweight, fast, and SEO-friendly.
Getting Started
New to Glossary Tooltip? Start here.
- Installation
- Quick Start
- Creating Your First Glossary Term
- Requirements
- Updating the Plugin
→ View Getting Started
General Settings
Configure how glossary terms behave across your website.
Learn how to:
- Choose which post types are scanned.
- Control repeated term highlighting.
- Configure glossary permalink and taxonomy slugs.
- Enable highlighting only on single posts.
- Match only space-separated words.
- Enable case-sensitive matching.
- Exclude glossary terms from site search.
→ Read General Settings
Glossary Index
Create a professional glossary page for your visitors.
Learn how to:
- Assign the glossary index page.
- Display alphabetical A–Z navigation.
- Enable live search.
- Disable tooltips on the glossary page.
- Customize typography and colors.
→ Read Glossary Index Guide
Glossary Terms
Customize the appearance and behavior of glossary term pages.
Topics include:
- Singular labels
- Back to glossary links
- Title attributes
- Open links in a new tab
- Link relationship (rel) attributes
- Highlight styles
- Underline options
→ Read Glossary Terms Guide
Tooltip Settings
Control how tooltips are displayed throughout your website.
Topics include:
- Enable or disable tooltips
- Tooltip excerpt length
- Mobile behavior
- Maximum tooltip width
- Colors
- Responsive options
→ Read Tooltip Documentation
Performance
Optimize Glossary Tooltip for speed and compatibility.
Learn about:
- Content parsing
- Ignored HTML tags
- Parsing priority
- Main query only mode
- Content caching
- Loading CSS & JavaScript
- Inline assets
→ Read Performance Guide
Customization
Make Glossary Tooltip match your website.
Topics include:
- Colors
- Typography
- Link styles
- Underline styles
- Mobile display
- Custom CSS
→ View Customization Guide
Troubleshooting
Need help?
Find solutions for common issues including:
- Terms are not highlighting
- Tooltips are not appearing
- CSS conflicts
- Cache problems
- Incorrect links
- Performance issues
→ View Troubleshooting
Frequently Asked Questions
Find answers to the most commonly asked questions about installation, configuration, compatibility, performance, licensing, and more.
→ View FAQs
Changelog
View every release of Glossary Tooltip, including new features, improvements, bug fixes, and compatibility updates.
→ View Changelog
Need More Help?
If you can’t find the answer you’re looking for, visit our support resources or open a support request. We’re here to help you get the best experience with Glossary Tooltip.