Daniele Scasciafratte

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Eugenio Petulla'

Adding a glossary to your website can be a smart move to improve your users’ reading experience and significantly improve SEO and rankings. 
If you’re looking for the ultimate glossary plugin for your WordPress site, look no further: you’ve found it!
Glossary by Codeat is the freemium WordPress plugin that allows you to create a glossary for your website and turn your content into a complete and navigable resource. It comes with a free and a PRO version.
<h3>What is the superpower of Glossary by Codeat?</h3>
Glossary by Codeat automatically generates word lists from your content and creates styled tooltips, enhancing user engagement without manual effort. 
The terms and definitions will be grouped in a glossary or dictionary section and automatically linked to the corresponding words within your posts and pages.
You can use Glossary by Codeat with the classic WordPress editor or with Gutenberg: it’s 100% compatible.
<h3>Real-World Applications</h3>
Let’s say you have a food blog. 
How great would it be to show your readers a tooltip (and a direct link) to the description of an ingredient (or kitchen utensil) without them having to leave your website?
And what if you run an online store selling fishing gear? 
With the Glossary plugin, you can provide detailed descriptions of your merchandise and suggest related products directly from your store’s pages.
Are you a big fan of Back to the Future and want to create a digital encyclopedia that covers all aspects of your favorite saga?
With Glossary by Codeat, it’s a piece of cake! <a href="https://demo.codeat.co/glossary/" rel="nofollow ugc">See this demo</a>.
<h3>Are you an affiliate marketing specialist?</h3>
You can use Glossary by Codeat to include your affiliation URLs and descriptions to some of your key terms. This way, you can turn the tooltip area of the pop-up into a revenue machine! Cool, uh?
And what’s even cooler is that you can use Glossary by Codeat for free! 
The basic version of Glossary is – and will always be – free.
<h3>FREE FEATURES</h3>
The free version of Glossary by Codeat is jam-packed with nifty features! Its powerful engine automatically links every instance of a term (or set of terms) to a predefined list of definitions.
Here are some of the things you can do with the free version of Glossary by Codeat:
<ul>
<li>Group your terms by category and create vertical archives of terms through the shortcodes: Lists of Terms and Lists of Categories.</li>
<li>Choose where to activate its features: in all pages or only some of them, in archives, taxonomies, custom post types, etc.</li>
<li>Apply a highlight to your linked terms or a highlight and a tooltip on hover.</li>
<li>Style your tooltips by choosing one of the four free templates.</li>
<li>Link terms to internal or external locations.</li>
<li>Related/additional terms or synonyms are supported for the same term.</li>
<li>Add a dedicated icon to highlight external links.</li>
<li>Use it with your favorite plugins: Yoast SEO, Ninja Forms, Elementor, Bricks Builder, Fixed TOC, Easy Table of Contents, YARPP, role management plugins like User Role Editor, or multi-language plugins such as WPML and Polylang.</li>
<li>Custom integration for themes: Bricks, Divi and Genesis.</li>
<li>Smooth migration from the CM Glossary Tooltip plugin.</li>
<li>Play with the widgets: Glossary Search Bar, Latest Terms, and Glossary Categories.</li>
<li>Hassle-free integration with Gutenberg blocks.</li>
<li>ChatGPT integration (requires an OpenAI API Key) for term content generation</li>
<li>CSV term imports</li>
<li>Schema.org support for DefinedTerm</li>
</ul>
The free version of Glossary by Codeat doesn’t include dedicated support. 
If you need help, take a look at our <a href="https://demo.codeat.co/glossary/" rel="nofollow ugc">demo site</a>, read our <a href="https://docs.codeat.co/glossary/" rel="nofollow ugc">documentation</a>, or <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/glossary-by-codeat" rel="ugc">head over to the dedicated WordPress support forum</a>.
The PRO version tops all the fantastic features of Codeat Glossary Free with a set of useful extras that extend styling and customization opportunities. Let’s see them all in detail:
<h3>🚀 PRO FEATURES</h3>
The <a href="https://glossary.codeat.co/" rel="nofollow ugc">PRO version of Glossary by Codeat</a> includes all the free features plus several behavior-controlling tools to enhance your reader’s experience.
Here are some of the things you can do with the PRO version of Glossary by Codeat:
<ul>
<li>Advanced customization and styling of your tooltips.</li>
<li>Automatically generates glossary terms footnotes for your content. <a href="https://demo.codeat.co/glossary/wiki/back-to-the-future/" rel="nofollow ugc">Demo</a></li>
<li>Full control of your tooltips behavior on mobile.</li>
<li>Match case-sensitive terms.</li>
<li>Link only the first occurrence of the same/any key key term.</li>
<li>Prevent term links from appearing on their own description page.</li>
<li>Add an alphabetically ordered list of your Glossary terms. <a href="https://demo.codeat.co/glossary/" rel="nofollow ugc">Demo</a></li>
<li>Fully customizable glossary index block for visual editors (Gutenberg, Elementor, Fusion Bulder, Divi, Beaver Builder, SiteOrigin)</li>
<li>Add Custom Fields to your key terms, and use the integration with the ACF Custom Fields plugin.</li>
<li>Use the PRO shortcode/block to create a Glossary Index.</li>
<li>Advanced shortcodes to parse the content when using Visual Composer or Page Builder.</li>
</ul>
The PRO version of Glossary by Codeat includes dedicated <a href="https://support.codeat.co/" rel="nofollow ugc">support</a>. 
If you have any doubts or questions, our friendly support team will assist you as quickly as possible. 
<a href="https://docs.codeat.co/glossary/premium-features/" rel="nofollow ugc">Our documentation covers the premium features with screenshots</a>.
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Glossary

Fast support even for the free version <3

Great plugin and great support!

Boost your SEO & UX with Codeat's Glossary: powerful auto-link engine; customizable tooltips, mobile settings, ChatGPT and much more!

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Glossary Tooltip is a lightweight yet powerful plugin that automatically highlights glossary terms in your content and displays tooltips when users hover over them.
It helps improve internal linking, user engagement, and SEO while providing a better reading experience for your visitors.
<h3>Turn Technical Terms into Informative Links and Build a Powerful Knowledge Base with Tooltips</h3>
Many websites use technical words that beginnner visitors may not understand easily.
Glossary Tooltip helps solve this problem by automatically turning important words into informative glossary links with helpful tooltips.
When a visitor moves their mouse over a highlighted word, a small tooltip popup appears showing the meaning of that term.
This helps your readers understand content faster without leaving the page, and its reduce your website bounce rate.
It also improves your SEO, internal linking, and user engagement.
Whether you run a website, blog, documentation site, educational website, or online knowledge base, this plugin helps organize your content and explain important terms clearly.
<h3>🚀 What This Plugin Can Do?</h3>
Glossary Tooltip helps you build a smart glossary tooltip system on your website.
With this plugin you can:
• Automatically highlight glossary terms inside posts and pages 
• Show helpful definitions of terms using tooltips 
• Create a complete glossary index page with all terms 
• Improve internal linking across your website 
• Help visitors understand technical words easily 
• Increase readers time spent on your website
The plugin is lightweight, fast, and beginner-friendly.
No coding knowledge is required.
<h3>✨ Main Features</h3>
<h3>📖 Automatic Glossary Highlighting</h3>
Once you create a glossary term, the plugin will automatically detect that word across your website content.
It will highlight the term and turn it into a glossary link.
Visitors can hover over the word to see the explanation instantly.
Features include:
<ul>
<li>Highlight glossary terms automatically </li>
<li>Highlight terms once or multiple times </li>
<li>Case-sensitive or case-insensitive matching</li>
<li>Ignore headings and links to auto linking</li>
<li>Ignore specific HTML elements while parsing </li>
<li>Match case-sensitive and unsensitive terms</li>
<li>Parse only when if glossary terms exists</li>
<li>Enable cache and inline assets (optional)</li>
</ul>
<h3>💡 Smart Tooltip System</h3>
When a visitor hovers over a glossary word, a tooltip appears with the term definition.
This makes your content easier to understand.
Tooltip options include:
<ul>
<li>Enable or disable tooltips globally </li>
<li>Custom tooltip width </li>
<li>Tooltip text color customization </li>
<li>Tooltip background color </li>
<li>Tooltip border color </li>
<li>Mobile tooltip behavior control </li>
</ul>
<h3>📚 Dedicated Glossary Index Page</h3>
You can create a glossary index page that lists all your terms in alphabetical order.
Visitors can easily browse all glossary entries from one place.
Features include:
<ul>
<li>Alphabetical glossary navigation (A–Z) </li>
<li>Live glossary item search </li>
<li>Clean and simple glossary layout </li>
<li>Option to disable tooltips on glossary page</li>
<li>Customize letters, items size, and colors</li>
</ul>
<h3>⚙️ Flexible Settings & Controls</h3>
Glossary Tooltip gives you full control over how glossary terms behave on your website.
You can customize:
<ul>
<li>Which post types should highlight glossary terms </li>
<li>Glossary permalink structure </li>
<li>Highlighting behavior </li>
<li>Glossary link styling </li>
<li>Tooltip appearance </li>
</ul>
All settings are available in a simple admin interface.
<h3>⚡ Performance Optimized</h3>
The plugin is designed to be lightweight and fast.
It only processes content when glossary terms exist.
Performance features include:
<ul>
<li>Smart content parsing </li>
<li>Optional content caching </li>
<li>Ignore headings and links while parsing </li>
<li>Minimal JavaScript usage </li>
</ul>
This ensures your website stays fast and responsive.
<h3>🔧 How It Works?</h3>
Using the plugin is very simple.
1️⃣ Go to Glossary → Add New 
2️⃣ Enter the glossary term as the title 
3️⃣ Write the definition in the content area 
4️⃣ Publish the term and Enjoy!
Now the plugin will automatically highlight that term across your website.
When visitors hover over the word, the tooltip definition will appear instantly.
<h3>🧩 Shortcode</h3>
You can display the glossary list anywhere on your site using this shortcode:
<pre><code>[glossary_list]
</code></pre>
This will show an alphabetical glossary list of all terms.

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