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CM Tooltip Glossary is the premiere WordPress knowledge base plugin to host a glossary of terms or information repository on your WordPress site.
If you want to build an online dictionary, encyclopedia, wiki, or glossary, this is the most robust and best reviewed plugin out there!
The Glossary Index PageA customizable index page is automatically created by the plugin. Here all the terms for that glossary will be listed.Term pages can be accessed directly through the glossary index or by clicking on a term when it appears in the site content. |
Sort Terms Alphabetically |
Glossary Index Customization
Customize your glossary index with an alphabetical navigation bar, fast live filter, easy share social media thumbnails and many other user friendly options.
Choose from 12 different index page design templates to display your online dictionary content in a way that fits your site and content type.
Dedicated Term PageEach term in the glossary or online dictionary has its own term page.This page includes the term definition, media, and content from external dictionary and thesaurus sources (when using the necessary APIs). |
Glossary Term Page |
Users can submit terms to build a community centered knowledge base, with the option to moderate all submissions using the Glossary Community Terms Addon.
Customizable Popup TooltipOnce a glossary term has been added, each occurrence of the term will be highlighted in any page or post. |
Pop Up Tooltip Display |
Embed Images and VideosEasily embed images, audio, and video files on the term page and/or term tooltip content. Automatically add content from external sources like Wikipedia, Google Translate or Merriam-Webster Dictionary. |
Sample of Image Tooltip |
Tooltip Customization
The plugin’s tooltips are fully customizable. Set the tooltip font, font size, tooltip dimensions, border, opacity, color, and more.
Enable or disable tooltips on individual pages or posts.
Parse image alt attribute text for terms. When found, a tooltip of that term will display when hovering over the image.
Synonyms, Abbreviations and VariationsEach encyclopedia or dictionary term and popup tooltip supports synonyms, abbreviations, and variations.This enhances the scope of a term search within your content and gives you the flexibility to use a term in many different ways. |
Synonyms Input Area on a Term Page |
Glossary Term Content Filtering
The plugin lets you disable term parsing and tooltip display on a page by page basis. You can also add specific terms to a blacklist or whitelist on individual pages or posts to disable/enable specific terms without needing to completely disable the glossary function on a page completely, giving you complete control over where and how terms display throughout your site.
Glossary Term Category
Assign each term to a category to create custom taxonomies for your online dictionary, wiki, or encyclopedia.
By using different categories, you can easily create multiple indexes, each with their own dedicated index page.
Display the glossary index of any category on a page or post using shortcode.
Or create multiple taxonomies with the Glossary Custom Taxonomies Addon.
Glossary Terms & SEOGlossary term pages are all linked together through a related terms mechanism and via the central index page.This helps to create a strong infrastructure that enhances your site's SEO by quickly and continuously building a network of internal links. |
Related Terms and Articles on a Term page |
Term pages can display related terms and articles that use the glossary term, helping lead users deeper into your site content.
By providing useful term definitions or supporting media in tooltips, users won’t need to rely on external resources to understand your content, no matter how technical it may be.
This means they will understand your content better and stay on your page longer, making both them and Google happy.
Glossary Language Support and Localization
The plugin is fully WPML compliant and supports all UTF-8 characters. Create a dictionary or glossary in any language, including Eastern languages or non space separated languages.
| All frontend labels can be easily changed to any language so the user interface will speak your language. This also includes the alphabetic index page list. |
Plugin Label Settings |
For multilingual sites, the plugin further integrates with Google Translate. With this free API key, you can translate specific words or phrases from a source language to a target language.
Translated terms and definitions can be displayed in both or a single language and enabled or disabled for individual terms.
External Content Integrations
Use free API keys to integrate content from external resources like Wikipedia, Merriam-Webster Dictionary or Thesaurus. Display excerpts of their definitions in popup tooltips, clicking on the term will route users to the term page where they can read full definitions, complete with supporting images, video, or audio files.
This is a simple and fast way for users to access supplementary information without leaving your page or post.
Glossary Analytics
Learn what terms users click, hover over, and view the most with the Glossary Log & Statistics Addon.
This data can help you understand what terms are the most popular or confusing, allowing you to continually optimize and improve your knowledge base.
Using the Tooltip Glossary Pro Plugin
- Great Site Organization – Easily create an A-Z in-depth WordPress glossary of terms to clarify definitions and organize your site’s content.
- Popup Tooltips – Place term definitions, images, videos, or any html content inside pop-up tooltips to appear when terms are hovered over anywhere on your site.
- Internal Backlinks – Automatically generate pages and backlinks within your site to enhance SEO connectivity and user experience.
- Integration with External API – Use free APIs to draw definitions from Wikipedia, Google Translate, Merriam-Webster Dictionary and Thesaurus.
- Amazon Affiliate – Monetize your site by displaying Amazon affiliate links and WooCommerce descriptions in tooltips.
- Filter Post Terms – Customize responsive tooltips for specified pages and posts using include/exclude, whitelist/blacklist and other useful hacks.
- Tooltip Shape and Color – Shape the tooltip look and by customizing the tooltip background color, font size, border, shadowing, display delay, and more.
Who Can Benefit From a WordPress Knowledge Base?
- WordPress site owners who need to explain or clarify complex terms within their content.
- WordPress bloggers who want to neatly display and track affiliate links or product recommendations.
- WordPress marketers who are looking to increase SEO juice and generate content.
How Does a Knowledge Base Improve Your Site’s SEO?
- Generate Internal Links – The encyclopedia or dictionary plugin lets you automatically create links to term pages from existing blog posts or pages.
This means that you have created hundreds of backlinks in a matter of seconds to a term page from within your site with no extra work on your end!
- Integrate with External Resources – You can easily add definitions to each term from multiple trusted sources like Merriam-Webster and Wikipedia.
Linking to trusted resources helps validate your content with users and Google alike.
- Build Term Pages with Valuable Information – The Tooltip Glossary plugin automatically creates a post for each term in the glossary and helps connect users to related terms and articles.
This can help draw users into your site when they search for this terminology in Google, and help them stay on your site longer.
Glossary Plugin Deals
Get the Tooltip Glossary Pro plugin along with other great premium plugins at a huge discount with these special bundles:
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Supplementary Tooltip Glossary Plugin Resources
- CM Tooltip Glossary Plugin Demo
- Plugin User Guide
- How to Build a Glossary in WordPress (article)
- Using a Glossary to Organize Your WordPress Site (presentation)
- How To: Upload Glossary Terms from a CSV Spreadsheet (video)
- How To: Create Multiple Indexes Within a Single Glossary (video)
- How To: Build an Image Based Glossary Index (video)
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Glossary Plugin Features
Please check the user guide for tutorials and in depth descriptions of each feature.
Glossary Index
 | Custom Style – Create a unique glossary in your own style by customizing the look and feel of the index page and tooltips. |
 | Index Templates – Choose from 12 index templates to control how your glossary index is displayed. |
 | Multi-Site Compatibility– Fully compatible with WordPress Multisite, so you can easily spread your knowledge base across multiple domains. |
 | Search– Search internally for words or phrases in your index using a local, AJAX based search. |
 | SEO Optimized – Adding glossary term list builds internal links that strengthen your website’s SEO. The glossary plugin works beautifully with Yoast SEO. |
 | Shortcodes – Create multiple glossaries and display them on any page or post via shortcode, or use tooltip shortcodes to apply tooltips to terms without adding them to the glossary index. |
 | Knowledge Base Backup – Automatically save a copy of your external glossary to the server with PIN protection and scheduled backups. |
 | GDPR Compliant – The plugin gives users full control over their data and assists the admin with data regulations compliance. |
Glossary Terms
 | Import Terms – Build your dictionary, wiki, encyclopedia, or glossary by importing a lists of words using a .csv file. |
| Export Terms – Export your dictionary, encyclopedia, or glossary term list to a .csv file. Share and build up your list by easily uploading it to other glossaries. |
 | Term Template – Use a term page template to customize the display of words and phrases in your lexicon. |
 | Related Terms – Automatically display a list of related glossary terms at the bottom of a page or post. |
 | Related Articles – Automatically display a list of all pages and posts that relate to a word or phrase on the glossary term page. |
 | Abbreviations – Add acronyms and abbreviations to dictionary terms. Choose whether abbreviated words will also be highlighted in posts and pages. |
 | Synonyms – Add synonyms to words and phrases to clarify similar terms and expand your glossary’s lexicon. Term synonyms will also be highlighted in posts and pages. |
 | Same Term, Multiple Definitions – Create multiple definitions for the same term, giving you unlimited flexibility over term content. |
 | Blacklist/Whitelist – You can choose to remove blacklisted terms/categories from parsing, or have a whitelist of terms/categories available on given page/post. |
 | Term Tags– Use tags to organize words and phrases into searchable tagged groups. |
 | Target Term Link – Set target terms to link to external URLs. |
Tooltips
 | Mobile Tooltips – Tooltips are are mobile friendly and adjust responsively. |
 | Custom Tooltip Fonts – Customize tooltip font size and style from a list of fonts available. |
 | Double Click Tooltip – Users can double-click on any word or phrase to show an infotip generated from Wikipedia, Amazon, or Merriam-Webster content. |
 | Transparent Tooltip – Control tooltip transparency to better display video and image infotip content. |
 | Images in Tooltips – Embed featured images in each of your glossary items. Images are shown in the tooltip content when they are hovered over, and may also be displayed on the glossary term page. |
 | Audio Tooltips – Add audio files in tooltips for visitors to easy play within an embedded media player. |
| Tooltip Video – Add videos from YouTube or Vimeo to play inside the pop-up tooltip. |
| Tooltip Image Parsing – Display tooltips for images if the terms are found in the image alt attribute. |
Social
 | Social Media Widget – Add a social share widget to term pages, making it easy for visitors to share your content. |
 | Share/Embed Option – Display a share/embed icon on each term page that allows visitors to embed a glossary definition on their site with an iframe code. |
 | PeepSo – Connect your knowledge base with your PeepSo community. Show tooltips for PeepSo content and let members submit terms. |
Tooltip Glossary Editions and Pricing
| Feature | Pro | Pro+ | eCommerce | Ultimate |
| $29 | $49 | $69 | $99 | |
| Show Tooltip in Pages & Posts |  | | | |
| A-Z Glossary Index Page | | | | |
| UTF8 Characters | | | | |
| Unlimited number of glossary term items in Index | | | | |
| Support custom post types | | | | |
| Optimized for Speed | | | | |
| Index Page Pagination | | | | |
| Import / Export | | | | |
| Customize Tooltip Style | | | | |
| Related Posts/Terms | | | | |
| Multisite Support | | | | |
| Synonyms, Singular & Plural | | | | |
| Mobile friendly | | | | |
| Custom Permalink | | | | |
| WPML Support | | | | |
| Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) Support | | | | |
| Share This Widget |  | | | |
| Customize Term Template | | | | |
| Google Translate integration | | | | |
| Glossary Categories | | | | |
| Glossary Search | | | | |
| Glossary Shortcodes | | | | |
| Merriam-Webster Dictionary / Thesaurus | | | | |
| Search & Replace Engine | | | | |
| Eastern Languages Support | | | | |
| Term Abbreviations | | | | |
| Index Page Styles | | | | |
| Highlight terms in Comments | | | | |
| Frontend Turn Tooltip Off Button | | | | |
| Embed Audio in Tooltip | | | | |
| Embed Video in Tooltip | | | | |
| Wikipedia Integration | | | | |
| Amazon Products Integration | | | | |
| WooCommerce Products Integration | | | | |
| Term Tags | | | | |
| Double Click Support | | | | |
| Featured Image Support | | | | |
| Parse Image Alt to show Tooltip content | | | | |
| Contextual Terms Support | | | | |
| Share with iframe | | | | |
| Multiple term definitions | | | | |
| Community terms | | | | |
| Statistics | | | | |
| Tooltip skins | | | | |
| Glossary search widget | | | | |
| Glossary custom taxonomies | | | | |
| Glossary import | | | | |
| Glossary visual widgets | | | | |
| Tooltip on Backend | | | | |
| $29 | $49 | $69 | $99 |
Tooltip Glossary Demos
To see the major features of the Tooltip Glossary Plugin, check out the clips below or visit our demo site.
For more in-depth descriptions, visit our Video Tutorial Library or plugin User Guide.
TOOLTIP GLOSSARY PRO OVERVIEW
MAIN GLOSSARY FEATURES
GLOSSARY CUSTOMIZATION
EXAMPLES OF SITES USING TOOLTIP GLOSSARY PRO
Tooltip Glossary Image Gallery
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- The glossary index page
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- The tooltip as shown when hovering over a term
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- Setting up the infotip without a related word associated with it
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- Set related posts or pages where the highlighted word occurs
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- Import, export and backup glossaries as .csv files
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- Selecting glossary terms before export
Back-end Gallery
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- Editing the index page that contains all the vocabulary items
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- Synonyms can also be added to the infotip window
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- Tooltip Glossary – Settings – General Settings
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- Tooltip Glossary – Adding Custom Fields
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- Tooltip Glossary – Settings – Term Highlight
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- Tooltip Glossary – Settings – Glossary Index Page
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- Tooltip Glossary – Settings – Glossary Index Settings
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- Tooltip Glossary – Settings – Glossary Index Sharing
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- Tooltip Glossary – Settings – Glossary Index Pagination
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- Tooltip Glossary – Settings – Glossary Index Alphabetic index
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- Tooltip Glossary – Settings – Glossary Terms Display
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- Tooltip Glossary – Settings – Glossary Terms Links
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- Tooltip Glossary – Settings – Glossary Terms Related articles
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- Tooltip Glossary – Settings – Glossary Terms Synonyms
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- Tooltip Glossary – Settings – Tooltip
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- Tooltip Glossary – Settings – Tooltip Content
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- Tooltip Glossary – Settings – Tooltip Mobile Support
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- Tooltip Glossary – Settings – Tooltip Styling
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Tooltip Glossary Add-ons and Modules
Extend the functionality of your Glossary plugin with these great add-ons!
Purchase individually or get all 9 add-ons when you purchase the Tooltip Glossary Ultimate eCommerce Edition.
Glossary Visual Widgets
This add-on for the Tooltip Glossary plugin lets you add seven new widgets to your glossary, which enhance the user experience and glossary engagement by exposing its content to users and visitors. Create visually appealing widgets to improve glossary content and user interaction.[ Video] [ Userguide]
Plugin Bundles with Tooltip Glossary
Essential eLearning Plugin Package
Check out our awesome WordPress e-learning Plugin packages and learn how to utilize them for educational purposes! Packages include students community support, knowledge sharing, discussion facilitation and curriculum building tools.[ Video]
Essential Publishing Plugin Package
Get Seven great plugins that improve your WordPress publishing abilities and add new ways to generate and present content on your WordPress site, improve user engagement and overall experience
Tooltip Glossary Related Plugins
Tooltip Glossary Frequently Asked Questions
How to create an Image tooltip?
Image tooltip can be created using the Ecom edition of the tooltip glossary plugin. Check this help document for more explanations
How to remove the sidebar On Glossary term post?
You can change the term post template in the Glossary Pro+ and Ecom editions. It’s all about having the right template in the theme (without the sidebar) and applying it to for the Glossary terms. Here is help document covering this.
Can I display a single glossary category?
With the Pro+ and Ecom editions Once you’ve created your glossary categories, placing a single glossary category inside a page or post can easily be done using the shortcode
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Nothing found. Please change the filters.
Select the term to display its content.
How do I upgrade CM ToolTip?
To upgrade from the free edition to the pro you need first to deactivate and delete the free edition. All terms that have been created with the free edition will be automatically transferred to the pro. You can them download the pro edition from CreativeMinds customer dashboard and install it. For the plugin to work you need to activate the license. Here is a video explaining this
Does the plugin support localization?
All the Glossary premium editions can be easily localized. First the plugin labels can be changed in the plugin settings. Plugin supports all UTF-8 languages, RTL languages and Asian languages. On top we also support WPML. Here is more information about WPML support.
Can I build multiple glossaries on one site?
Supporting multiple glossaries is done using categories which are part of the pro+ and Ecom editions. Here is help document about this.
Can I turn off the tooltip?
Yes. Tooltips can be turned off completely for all the site, per custom post type and also per a specific post.
Does the plugin support custom post type?
Yes. In the plugin setting you can select for which custom post type you want to have the plugin show tooltips and parse the content.
Can I localize the alphabet index to my language alphabet letters?
Yes. In the plugin setting you can replace the English alphabet letters with your own alphabet letters.
Customer Stories for the Tooltip Glossary
Domyo and Sukha
“I chose Tooltip Glossary because it gave me considerable control over how tooltips appear on my website, and because it included the option for a beautiful index page.”
“I’m delighted with the results because my readers can quickly and easily access definitions as they go, without disrupting their reading.”
Domyo Burk uses Tooltip Glossary on ZenStudiesPodcast
Read her story: “Zen-sational”: She Uses a WordPress Plugin to Teach Buddhism.
Harald Borjans
“Before, I could only find the information on other websites. Now the information is in my hands.”
“It’s a beautiful plugin. Especially when you have the Pro version, the layout gets a boost.”
Harald Borjans has Tooltip Glossary on People and Communication
Read his story: “The Information Is Now In My Hands”: How Tooltip Glossary Helps His Courses.
Self-portrait of Dragana Amarilis
“Fantastic plugin, not only for creating dictionary also for managing any kind of web content.”
“My advice is: test the free version, but do not wait too long before getting the Tooltip Glossary Pro.”
Dragana Amarilis uses Tooltip Glossary on her Serbian Online Glossary
Read her story: Creating a Language Glossary for Millennials… with a WordPress Plugin.
Cara Biasucci
“Tooltip Glossary has helped us deliver and link content within the site in a way that is user-friendly.”
The Ethics Unwrapped website has an average of 40,000 users monthly.
Cara Biasucci uses Tooltip Glossary on the Ethics Unwraped project
Read her story: How Tooltips Glossary Helps to Make Ethics a Fun Subject.
Dani Amsalem
“I couldn’t have done it without Tooltip Glossary.“
“I pretty much tried all the top rated and the newest glossary plugins. I also contacted the developers to understand if their product would fit my need. Several sources were saying positive things about Tooltip Glossary so in the end it was a no-brainer“
Dani Amsalem uses the ToolTip Glossary Plugin on a glossary about cryptocurrency
Read his story: He Used Tooltip Glossary to Build a Successful Cryptocurrency Manual
Customer Reviews for the Tooltip Glossary
- 19th Jan2019Nice plugin, good supportNice plugin, very good support. Can definitely recommend this plugin, value for money!
- 10th Jun2018Wonderful tool and great supportWe’re using the tooltips extensively and can’t be happier with it. The issues we had were dealt with swiftly and in a very polite and friendly manner. Highly recommended!
- 10th Apr2018Very PleasedSo far I’ve had an excellent experience with this plugin. The free version did everything the author said it will do. I upgraded to the Ecommerce version and had a minor display problem which their support took care of in record time. I heartily recommend this plugin to anyone looking for a good glossary plugin.Now two weeks later. I’m now VERY VERY pleased with the plugin and the people who created it. A major conflict showed up with another really important plugin on my site. I honestly thought I would have to ask CreativeMinds for my money back. I sent in a support request and a fellow named John got back to me right away with a very nice fix to the problem. Wow! I wish I could give them another 5 stars.
- 08th Mar2018Great plugin!Awesome work.
- 05th Dec2017Rolls Royce pluginCM Tooltip Glossary Pro + has allowed us to take our site to the next level. Its ability to cross-reference material encyclopaedia-style creates incredible opportunities for an online publishing platform like ours. What makes it even better is that they have a dedicated support team that gets the job done when you need help. Good work and thanks.
- 05th Jun2017Very good work!A very good tool! I’m using the free Version for my Blog and it does exactly what it should!
- 14th Mar2017Really great addition to a websiteThis is a really well-thought out plugin and very easy to work with. I’m a fan!
- 13th Mar2017PerfectThis plugin do a perfect job ! No negative point found !
- 12th Mar2017Great product for English learners!I use this glossary tool to teach English to foreign students. It’s great for this purpose! I’m using the free version.One enhancement that really add to the value would be to allow the glossary entry to be various forms of a word such that ALL forms would be automatically tool-tipped.Glossary Entry Example: provision#provisions#provisioned#provisioning Definition: [goes here]
- 12th Mar2017Excellent plugin, ideal for websites using uncommon/specialis terms and AcronymsI run a website that relies on users understanding the meaning of the terminology used throughout, without sending them off to a Glossary page every few sentences. This plugin makes it seamlessly simple, by adding tooltip-style pop-up glossary definitions…. What’s more, the plugin offers the additional option of linking the glossary entries to a separate page for more in-depth definitions and links to websites that give more information and links to external/internal websites, pages and resources. This mean that the user can view the concise glossary tooltip definition by hovering over the term, and then visit the in-depth description page by clicking on it.
- 13th Feb2017Excellent supportUsed the free version for a while, wanted per-page-disable so upgraded to pro+.Had questions answered rapidly by support.Recommended.
- 13th Feb2017Excellent & intuitive functionality. Terrific supportI’m new to using WordPress and plugins for it. CM Tooltips Glossary has been a really pleasant surprise–I can use it! The interface is pretty intuitive–I simply explore different parts of it and find what I need. When I can’t find something, I e-mail to Support and get my questions answered within 24 hours (sometimes a little longer on the weekend). Support has even added features that I’ve requested!I’m building an encyclopedia of quantum physics, and the Tooltips Glossary plugin does what I need. Prior to buying it, I had looked into all the alternatives–and this is really the only plugin available that does what I need.I’m EXTREMELY happy with this plugin!
- 13th Dec2016goodthank, the plugin is working good in my website gamma.or.id .
- 13th Dec2016Good Plugin and Excellent SupportHad a conflict issue with plugin and their support worked until the issue was resolved. Very good adaptable plugin. Loads of features, perhaps too many 🙂
- 12th Dec2016Well done!What a great plugin! I easily added definitions for words that need defining and the plugin did the rest. The language learners can now mouseover the words they might not know and have definition show up in a tooltip.Many thanks for creating this!
- 13th Oct2016Plug and PlayEasy installation, instant satisfaction. And it even looks great on my site. Happy!
- 14th Sep2016awesome plugin and fast customer serviceI really love the plugin in it’s simplicity. I first tried the free version, than got pro and finally decided to upgrade to pro+. Customer service was super fast to reply to my requests and helped me fix my problem within an hour or so.
- 13th Sep2016Just incredibleI highly recommand this glossary plugin !Nice support, nice options and pretty easy to use for non-english people !I’m very pleased to use it 🙂Thank you !
- 15th Aug2016THE BEST GLOSSARY PLUGIN!!!This is a great plugin I highly recommend if you are building a glossary.The support is great as the team always gets back to me.There are numerous options to customize the glossary layout and there are options to choose a version that meets your needs as well.If you want to see a comparison of features between the various versions click this link https://www.cminds.com/wordpress-plugins-library/tooltipglossary/#pricingIf you need a glossary solution … look no further … this is the one you need!
- 09th Aug2016Great pluginAfter installing the plugin, it was really easy to use, but I was missing some additions to the plugin. I contacted their support, asking if it was possible to change my view and ask for these additions, and they did it. I am very pleased now!Thank you!Jan
- 08th Aug2016Great Plugin / Great Support: Recommended!!This is a fantastic plugin, and I highly recommend it. I asked for support and got it within 24 hours, twice in fact. Best of kind plugin. Get it.
- 13th Jul2016working properly!good plugin.
- 12th Jul2016Amazing servicePurchased the Pro version, only to find out it does not support catagories (didn’t read that, my bad). Send a e-mail on sunday to upgrade to pro+. I got a answer within 10 minutes and it was taken care of within 30 minutes totaal. Amazing service and besides that: amazing plugin!
- 12th Jul2016Nice plugin!It’s a very nice plugin that’s bound to have a positive effect on SEO.
- 08th Jul2016Great products, great team!!This is the second time I've communicated with Marcin via the support channel and once again my expectations were not only met, they were far exceeded. I was able to communicate quickly and effectively with Marcin in order to figure out what was going on. Two big thumbs up from me. Great products, great team!!
- 07th Jun2016Great PluginI’m still in the process of setting up my glossary of stock market terms, but so far I have been able to do everything I want to do, except for the linking of glossary terms to the tooltip itself, which I’ve been told by support affects the performance of the plugin too much. But otherwise I’m very happy. The tooltips look professional and everything links perfectly. I’m also able to add videos and images to glossary terms, which is very helpful. And it allows you to add synonyms that automatically appear in the glossary index page. I tried quite a few glossary plugins before this one, and this is the only one that offers to most in terms of functionality. And support is very responsive. Overall, I’m happy, thanks Creative Minds.
- 12th May2016Très utile et fonctionne parfaitementVraiment un bon plugin pour gérer un Wiki automatique. Juste être prudent lors des mises à jour, vérifier que toutes les options sont bien configurées et ne pas oublier de réactiver la licence. Les options de configuration dans la version Ecommerce sont vraiment nombreuses et peuvent convenir à tous les besoins. Si vous voulez voir un exemple d’utilisation c’est ici : [Link redacted]
- 11th May2016The Best Glossary PluginIf you are about to do research on the best glossary plugin, let me save you some time. The CM Tooltip Glossary plugin is by far the best. Let me explain why… I researched about 10 of the most popular plugins for my site [Link redacted], I looked up each one, researched its functionality and then finally decided on CM Tooltip Glossary. Here’s why… most people are simply looking for a way to list out a few terms. However, this is missing the larger picture, which is quickly building a massive link structure for SEO. This is what CM Tooltip Glossary does amazing. While other plugins simply list the terms in a grid format, CM Tooltip gives you the ability to automatically create links to the glossary pages from existing blog or article pages. This means within seconds, you have the ability to create hundreds of backlinks to the term page from within your site. It also offers a variety of customization options for the terms and how they are displayed when you hover over them. You can easily add multiple sources to each term, which again, is a great way to strengthen your SEO. Bottom line: If you’re going to build a glossary, you might as well build on that creates value other than listing a few terms on your website.
- 09th May2016SupportI thank the prompt service whenever requested. Good team!
- 05th May2016Nice pluginA perfect plugin to build a professional glossary, for me the best glossary pl listed in this place.Great job
- 14th Mar2016A plugin to be example for developersThis is a role model for how a plug-in should be!I has more customization options than I expected. Everything is tought very well.Worth every penny!
- 14th Mar2016Great plugin!Amazing plugin, it’s exactly what I was looking for. The best support I’ve ever seen. Thanx!
- 13th Mar2016good workI started using this plugin and I find very useful!I’m using CM Tooltip Glossary to organize glossary terms for mu students, to help tham understand better the articles I’m writing … really a good work
- 12th Mar2016Great plugin great supportWorks great with the site, also the support is fantastically helpful too! Helped us with issues of our ajax site a lot, thanks guys!
- 12th Mar2016Excellent supportMy site uses a custom theme, and the CM support team helped me to figure out why the theme didn’t play nicely with this plugin. Definitely worth what I paid for the premium plugin!
- 11th Feb2016Great product with great supportWe used this glossary tool for our new website which has 1600 glossary terms in 7 languages.The plugin is working great and any issues we encountered surrounding the multilingual aspect of the website where dealt with by support in an eager, fast and enthusiastic manner.We also tried out other glossary plugins, but this tool got the job done with extra features not available in other plugins.The support is top class and will enable you to achieve your objective.I recommend this plugin 100% for your glossary needs.
- 10th Feb2016Great product, great supportGreat product with tons of comfigurability!
- 13th Jan2016Featured on iThemes Training Plugin Roundup Jan 4, 2016Nice concept and excellent implementation. Easy for anyone to set up and use. Lots of creative possibilities here.
- 12th Jan2016Support is very goodI had an idea for my future site and I wrote a message to support with my suggestions. And it turns out that some (that make sense) of my suggestions will be implemented in a future release. Very cool!
- 15th Nov2015Great plugin, excellent supportThis is a first class plugin with a very extensive feature set. I use it as part of a small knowledge base and it is a tremendous timesaver. If anything, the hover activated tooltip part of the plugin, although very well implemented, is secondary to some of the other features – especially the automated term highlighting and the inclusion of related articles at the foot of each page (all customizable on a page/post by page/post basis) .I did run into one or two fairly minor issues related to integration of the plugin with the WP theme that I am using. Support to resolve these issues went beyond excellent.Highly recommended on all counts.
- 14th Nov2015Plugin and Support Is AwesomeThere are a log of great plugins out there and this is one of them. Not only does it work excellent but the support was so fast I was amazed even with the amount of questions I was throwing at them. That is what makes a plugin great. I can see that it helped with SEO and that was one of the reasons for adding it.
- 12th Oct2015Professional TeamI had special requirements for the plugin and they were ready to implement it by our needs. The team made excellent job and the support was amazing.
- 10th Oct2015Great!Great plugin and great support team!
- 08th Oct2015Best glossary plugin I triedI tried several glossary plugins, most of them free. None of them offered the feature set that Tooltip Glossary offered. The configuration panel offers a huge array of customizations. It works like advertised, and the support is fast and friendly. I highly recommend it.
- 08th Oct2015Fantastic plugin with great supportWe’re using this to add references to a field guide. It works wonderfully. Support experience: We were experiencing an issue where occasionally, one of the references would break and show the HTML with the entirety of the information. I opened a ticket and set messed up providing them access to help troubleshoot. However, just by my description, they were able to provide the fix (to my custom code) to address the issue.Long story short, we have a custom function that customizes our post titles breaking plant names into name, genus & family. It was breaking the code for the glossary entries. They provided the code to exclude the Glossary titles from our function.It works wonderfully!
- 07th Oct2015Go for Pro – Fantastic value at twice the priceFunctionality, flexibility and options exactly as advertised and more. But the support is what makes this 5 star!
- 06th Oct2015Great function, great support!Easy to install, deep customizing und great support!
- 07th Sep2015Great glossary pluginVery nice glossary plugin with huge configuration options. Beatiful tooltips and many variations of view. Very good support team. Thank you!
- 04th Sep2015Does the job well, excellent supportA slick, straightforward and highly manageable way of adding tooltip popups to sites. Very customisable: you can tell it only to highlight the first instance of a word or phrase on a page, for example, or to omit certain words or whole pages from pop-ups.The tool also builds its own glossary, which can be extensively styled. The only drawback is that if this glossary page shows the definitions in full, then rolling over the titles pops up exactly the same definition as readers are already viewing – and there’s no way to turn this off for titles alone. Otherwise, an excellent tool with terrific customer support.
- 02nd Sep2015Fantastic SupportI had been using their plugin for a year, but then began encountering a few issues. I sent them an email and they helped out straight away. They were absolutely fantastic and sorted everything. I would highly recommend them.
- 10th Aug2015Great Plugin, Great SupportThanks for the wonderful plugin. Incredibly flexible and really easy to use.Your support is fantastic, every site is a different, and your support team made sure that I have all the functionality I need, this is what a product should be!Thank you for a great experience,Ecommerce Retailer.
- 13th Jul2015ThanksThank you guys for this useful plugin!
- 06th Jul2015Just got pro!Just got myself the pro+ version of this one after using the regular one for quite a while. Very satisfied … and now I can have seperate glossaries in parallel … very nice! Highly reccommended!
- 12th Jun2015Good pluginA good glossary plugin with a good support.
- 11th Jun2015Tooltip PROThe plugin is a perfect fit for our church website … we’re working to reduce the amount of text the visitors have to wade through, by moving much of that text into Tooltips. It’s doing the job for us very nicely!8/29/15 Still a great Plugin, with responsive, professional tech support!
- 10th Jun2015Powerful plugin, lots of optionsIt’s not the most intuitive plugin but it’s very powerful and the developer has put a lot of thought into how it works. I noted some accessibility issues (WCAG 2.0 AA criteria) and the developer has been responsive to my suggestion of making the plugin compliant. They have committed to fixing this in future releases 🙂
- 08th Jun2015New version CM tooltip 3.1.7 : Great plugin and awesome supportSince I installed Twenty Thirteen switched from Hueman, CM tooltip plugin stopped showing on the page. It still appeared as float but not on the actual page.I contacted the CM tooltip team and they released up-date so it won’t send auto RSS feed…..this does not make any sense to a newbie like me but their quick response to my problem was great!!!As I have English/Japanese site for Japanese food recipes and recommended places in Japan. I wanted to have cooking and food terminologies on my site.This plugin has been a great way to do what I wanted.If anybody is interested making a glossary like that, this can be an example 😉My site is ; [Link redacted]
- 13th May2015Pro user – Does what it aysWe’re currently pro users (licensed users) and recently had some hiccups when we upgraded WordPress to 4.2.2. In the end they were all items on our end / our responsibility, but support was extremely fast in responding (and also very non judgmental). The plugin is very robust and gives you a lot of control.
- 11th May2015Good pluginEasy plugin, full of features. You have a glossary instantly. Had a bug in my website , I used the support and they fixed it quickly.
- 06th May2015Best Tooltip Plugin on Market & Dev Is Very ResponsiveHave looked at all tooltip plugins on market and this one works the best for us, by far. The dev is VERY responsive and has gone out of his way at least four or five times to fix issues we were having, some being conflicts with other plugins that were coded poorly …. He has even gone as far as to update cm tooltips to prevent said conflicts from occurring…. even though it was the fault of another plugin. One of the most responsive plugin developers I’ve worked with, by far!
- 12th Apr2015Great plugin, awesome support.This is a really handy plugin. I had an issue that was rectified fairly quickly and I’m super impressed that their tech support team gets back to you within 24 hours. You can’t beat that.
- 12th Mar2015perfect solution! many thanks!this is a great solution and very unique plugin, many thanks!!!
- 10th Feb2015outstanding – features * admin interface * styling * supportThis is just BLISS for information workers, teachers, researchers, a FAQ provider, a business directory, a project knowledgebase. OUTSTANDING – FEATURES * ADMIN INTERFACE * STYLING * SUPPORTI have searched for years and years to find the best way to present articles online and at last at last I have it. Tooltips Glossary is very well presented on the admin side with plenty of admin info notes. It has tons of options so I can be fussy and get what I want. Heaven. The really huge thing is its core – the global sitewide links which attach to every instance of the titles of its articles (Terms). So wherever that word occurs, it becomes a link, and the link opens its article. Not only that, a hover on the term gives the summary excerpt (a definition perhaps) or the first paragraph depending how you set it. Yet more – I can add synonyms like a plural, or variation of the word, or an alias name for a person. So when all these show up they will all link to the original article. (I have to use a small workaround for author names e.g. Smith, John; but it’s no big deal)The Glossary – FAQ Knowledgebase Dictionary Encyclopedia Encyclopaedia Directory Index or whatever you want to name it – has its own index page which lists all the titles as links A-Z in various styles I can choose. The Glossary has Categories so David the Dev has just added a way to have category index pages too. There are also Tags. Then there are Related Articles links and a whole lot more.Styling is good and there’s an extra plugin for styling the popup Tooltips boxes.Support has been outstanding. David is keenly interested in developing the plugin and things I suggested expecting to pay for as custom features have calmly been added to the plugin within a week or two! How cool is that? David also understands what I ask for, or else carefully checks to see he does.I am using the Ecocommerce (top level) of Tooltips Glossary but I did also find the free version is excellent. I went for the top version because it provides fast support and I’m a fussy admin, and because I really needed a couple of the premium extra features.Don’t go for inferior plugins if you want a good site. Get the best like this because this is the kind of plugin which will carry the centre of your WP or else a major section of it. messing with inferior copies.
- 10th Feb2015Great way to add for site usersWith this plugin I was not only able to provide the extra lexis detail my English language students need, but by linking to the dictionary and Wikipedia, I was able to add enormous amounts of content to my site with ease. The support is fast and well, supportive. A small error was quickly remedied and I would not hesitate to recommend this plugin and the people behind it.
- 14th Jan2015Added value to my contentThis plugin allowed me to set up a PhD project based on knowledge sharing. Moreover I used the free version on different websites on specific fields improving a better understanding for the user. The Creative Mind support is efficient.
- 09th Dec2014Great pluginI use the free version of this plugin on my home improvement blog to provide definitions to words and phrases that may not be familiar to my readers. Also in combination with Yoast’s SEO plugin, it makes every entry search engine friendly.Unlike some plugins I have tried CM Tool Tip Glossary has performed flawlessly with no conflicts with WP or any of the other plugin’s I use.While the free version has been a great addition to my site, I am strongly considering purchasing a pro version to take advantage of even more features.
- 13th Nov2014homepage and categoriesdictionary homepage, how we can add words, how to add categories, we can
- 12th Nov2014Excellent tool!I am managing a website that offer Physics tutorials. My website if fully loaded with terms that are related to the subject. CM Glossary Tooltip helped me a lot to assist my visitors understand the content with less hassle. Before I used this tool, a lot of visitors had to Google the stuff in order to figure the exact location. But CM Glossary Tooltip provided an ideal solution to it through linking glossary terms. I am highly impressed by its results and can recommend this for any WordPress based website out there!
- 12th Nov2014Really satisfiedThis plugin has been a great boon to my gamer website which is about welcoming newcomers to the gaming community. I use a ton of game terms and such on there that some people simply don’t know and I’ve been asked many times what certain words and phrases mean. This has clarified so many things for the users of my site and that is exactly what I want in my site, understanding. I’ve even gotten comments and messages telling me they like that new feature. I love how easy it is to use and it’s customization is a must have for me. Really happy that I found this and I’m gonna continue using it.
- 12th Nov2014Very impressed!CM Glossary Tooltip has been a great addition to my website. I use a lot of different financial terms on my site and tooltip provides more info on the terms I use to make it much easier for my readers to understand. The feedback I have received on my site after installing CM Glossary Tooltip has been very positive. Everyone has commented on how much they like the fact that they simple need to “hover” over the terms they don’t understand in order to see a definition of it in more detail. I have also received many comments on the A-Z Glossary Index Page that shows provides the links back to the source page. Many of my financial reports can be linked here and visitors on my website have provided a lot of positive feedback for this new improvement. I was so impressed with the free edition, that I purchased the Pro Edition of Word Press Glossary. It has been very beneficial for me to be able to add synonyms and abbreviations as well as plural forms of words. The Pro Edition allows me to generate link types for much larger glossaries and this feature alone has been well worth the money. I have been very happy with this product and highly recommend it.
- 14th Oct2014Wonderful!I loved this software so much! I enjoy writing and reading informational articles that have plenty of medical terminology. If I am reading the work of people who use this software, I can understand the article easier. Rather than having to Google search for each definition, I can hover above the word to get a definition. Knowing this, I am sure my readers also find it easier to understand what I am saying when I use medical terminology. Like any product, there is always room for improvement; unlike every creator, this software is improved on a daily basis. Great software, unique software. Buy it!
- 09th Sep2014Amazing plugin with a efficient supportI have this plugin for years. First the free version and then the Pro. It is getting better and always has an efficient support. Congratulations to the developers!
- 12th Aug2014Excellent Functionality and Top Notch SupportPlugin author has been constantly improving and adapting this product to my needs. It has been an integral part of our website providing tool tips of complex medical terms for dog owners. We couldn’t help owners as well as we do without it.The many updates have been extensive and recently, at my request, the plugin is now compatible with bbPress forums! This was critical to helping owners with sick dogs.I did need to spend some time working with settings, but those detailed settings allowed me to really fine tune how this looks on our website. I still have to look into the linking with dictionaries!I really like how this integrates with my SEO plugin. This draws people into the site who search this terminology in google.I appreciate the author’s sensitivity that we may not want this on every page and there are several settings to fine tune this.The entry is so easy that other moderators can help make entries.The applications for this as a training and educational tool are extensive. I can also use photos in the tooltips.Buying the upgrade is really worth the support you receive.
- 12th Jun2014must have!It is really good.
- 13th May2014Great !!It’s so sad that the free version don’t have plural managementbut the plugin is really awesome 😀
- 14th Mar2014Great plugin with awesome supportThe greatest value of this plugin is (except for it’s powerful features) that it’s supported and developed on a daily basis.
- 12th Feb2014Best Glossary Plugin and SupportWith no doubt this is the best glossary plugin for WordPress. Support and Help is simply fantastic.
- 11th Feb2014Comprehensive!While there’s a few features I’d like to see, this is one heck of a good plugin. We cranked out 281 new and very useful pages in our site in a matter of a couple of hours start to finish. Two thumbs up and five stars.
- 04th Feb2014Super handy!We were able to use the plugin to construct a glossary from spreadsheet data we have. The instructions provided in the settings page to properly produce comma-quote delimited CSV were very helpful as well.My only wish was that it was a bit more clear in that you have to manually add the glossary taxonomy/categories first, note down the categoryID, and integrate that to your spreadsheet data before importing. In other words, a more beginner/non-developer friendly way of explaining the process.Otherwise, great plugin with rapid support response time!
- 11th Dec2013Tool tip glossary supportGreat experience with support team. Resolved within two hours of contacting them.
- 11th Dec2013Absolutely GeniusThis program helps make an educational support group the best it can be. So many times we have terms used that someone may think they know but this allows to clearly understand the terms and language used in such instances. Our site, educating the world about CHD is a prime example. This plugin is a must have for any site using terms that may not be familiar to all people. Works flawlessly with around 80 plugins. Easy to set up and use. Intutive with very little learning. Thank you to the Author for a fine, well behaved plugin!Job Well done!
- 10th Dec2013Absolutely the best glossary plugin available!An amazingly clever plug-in that far surpasses anything related to it. The developer is a great guy and sets a higher standard not only for customer support, but responsiveness, in my case to a bug in the pro version which he fixed within 48 hours. If you are wondering about the pro plus edition, don’t. It’s really the best of the best!
- 18th Nov2013Appreciate the effortA big thanks to David for getting this plugin to work in Japanese.Initially it didn’t work, but after sending an email to let support know about this, David and his team fixed the problem. I upgraded to Pro and it works perfectly. Very useful plugin.Thanks again!
- 13th Nov2013Really useful plugin – Great SupportThank you so much for all the great support & quick response every single time I needed you.Keep up the nice work.
- 04th Nov2013Excellent glossary, excellent supportThis plugin, even the free version, adds a real “wow” factor to any website with a lot of specialized vocabulary. It’s amazing and refreshingly simple to just hover to get the definition.We upgraded to the Pro version to gain the synonym and plural functionality. Support from the developer, David, has been excellent.
- 08th Oct2013Great support and pluginPlugin is working as stated, a good choice if you need a glossary. Very good support.
- 12th Sep2013Great plugin and awesome support!We’re developing our new site and the plugin works great. Tooltip, import glossary, related articles… work as described. The one thing I want to note is that the developers went the extra mile to fix some issues that we came across.
- 14th Aug2013Great plugin, beats all the competitionPlugin author is both friendly and responsive.
- 14th May2013Useful clean pluginIt’s is a great must plugin. I have been using it for a while and it powered up my site so much and I received great feedback
- 09th Apr2013Great Plugin and awesome SupportI rarely write reviews, but this plugin really deserves it. It is among the best if not the best Glossary Plugin around. It has a tremendous amount of features and options. And the support is great. I had a few bugs in the first version I downloaded and they were all taken care of in a matter of hours.Keep up the great work !!!!
- 12th Feb2013Works beautifullyThanks for the great plugin. Works extremely well now. I did have a bug with an earlier version the author fixed the problem in a matter of hours.
External Reviews for the Tooltip Glossary
| WP Mayor: "CM Tooltip Reviews by WP mayor - The CM Tooltip Glossary Pro+ plugin is an ideal solution for anyone who writes or publishes content in a topic that has lots of subject-specific terms, acronyms, abbreviations, and jargon. Instead of providing an explanation each time an acronym or technical term is used, this plugin makes it very easy to create your own glossary pages of terms on a WordPress site." |
| WP Explorer: "CM Tooltip Reviews by WP Explorer - The Pro+ version, in particular, is full-featured enough to satisfy every conceivable glossary-related need while being simple enough to appeal to WordPress users that like to stick to the essentials." |
| Wisdom Labs: "CM Tooltip Reviews by Wisdom Labs - The CM Tooltip Glossary plugin is a very efficient plugin and will provide valuable service to your site visitors. You can embed a glossary very easily into your website with a simple and streamlined design." |
| Premium WP: "CM Tooltip Reviews by Premium WP - CM Tooltip plugin makes it very easy to create a glossary of terms section as well as functionality for a tooltip definition of terms in your posts or pages to help visitors when they’re reading your content." |