Chris Roberts

This plugin allows users to create custom popups or tooltips in their posts. The style and behavior of the tooltip are highly configurable through CSS and through the WordPress dashboard.
<h3>Shortcode Attributes</h3>
The following options can all be included as attributes in your shortcode. Default values, when applicable, are shown in parenthesis. Multiple possible values are listed in parenthesis with the default first.
Note that even though some of the attributes have changed from older versions, the old attributes should continue to work. You will not need to update shortcodes that use the old names.
<ul>
<li>autoshow (false/true): If true, the tooltip or tooltips will automatically show when the page loads.</li>
<li>showtitle (false/true): Whether or not to use the title attribute in links. Good for accessibility, bad for visibility.</li>
<li>hoverpopup (true/false): If true, tooltip displays when hovering over the link. If false, tooltip displays when the link is clicked.</li>
<li>showdelay (100): Adds a slight delay before displaying the tooltip to prevent popping up tooltips when the mouse moves across the page.</li>
<li>showspeed (200): How long it takes in ms for the tooltip to fade in.</li>
<li>hidespeed (200): How long it takes in ms for the tooltip to fade out.</li>
<li>autoclose (true/false): Whether or not the tooltip should automatically close after a delay.</li>
<li>hidedelay (1000): How long it takes in ms before the tooltip begins to auto fade out.</li>
<li>container: By default, the tooltip is placed in the DOM right where you set it but if you want to use Tippy for specific positioning, you can change its parent element by specifying a CSS selector here.</li>
<li>position (link/mouse/css position value): Specifies where the tooltip should be positioned. If set to link or mouse, the x and y values are automatically determined.</li>
<li>top: Useful when position set to fixed, absolute, or relative.</li>
<li>bottom: Useful when position set to fixed, absolute, or relative.</li>
<li>left: Useful when position set to fixed, absolute, or relative.</li>
<li>right: Useful when position set to fixed, absolute, or relative.</li>
<li>offsetx (10): Set a default horizontal offset for the tooltip position. Useful when position set to link or mouse.</li>
<li>offsety (10): Set a default vertical offset for the tooltip position. Useful when position set to link or mouse.</li>
<li>width: Specify a width for the tooltip. The default is set in jquery.tippy.css.</li>
<li>height: Specify a height for the tooltip. The default is set in jquery.tippy.css.</li>
<li>draggable (false/true): Allow visitors to drag the tooltip around. Useful when autoclose is false. Requires jQuery UI.</li>
<li>dragheader (true/false): If draging is enabled and this is set to true, tooltip will only be draggable from the header bar. If false, visitors can drag from any part of the tooltip.</li>
<li>anchor: Optional CSS selector specifying the link element that will trigger Tippy.</li>
<li>title: Sets the text shown on the link and in the header.</li>
<li>swaptitle: Alternate title to use when the visitor hovers over the link.</li>
<li>img: Tippy can be used with images rather than text; set img to the url of an image to display Tippy on an image.</li>
<li>swapimg: Like swaptitle, swapimg switches to an alternate image when a visitor hovers over the link.</li>
<li>href: If href is set, the Tippy link will point to this url.</li>
<li>target: Specifies the link target for the Tippy link.</li>
<li>showheader (true/false): Whether or not the tooltip should show a header.</li>
<li>headertitle: By default, the header is set to the tooltip title. With headertitle, you can set specific text for the title.</li>
<li>headerhref: If headerhref is set, the tooltip header text will be a link pointing to this url.</li>
<li>showclose (true/false): Whether or not the tooltip have a close link. Usefor for mobile devices or when autoclose is false.</li>
<li>closetext (‘close’): The text to display for the close link.</li>
<li>calcpos (‘parent/document’): Calculate the tooltip link position relative to its parent or to the whole document.</li>
<li>alttrigger: Specify an element to use as additional triggers for the tooltip. Be sure to include . or # – ie: .triggerClass or #triggerId.</li>
</ul>

Tippy

Allows users to turn text into a tooltip or popup using a special [tippy] tag.

Glossy provides an easy way to insert predefined text for use throughout your site. If Tippy is installed, definitions can show via a tooltip. Provides an easy way to specify if tooltips should show in a tooltip or inline by default. Also provides a shortcode attribute for changing the inline setting on a per-term basis.
Glossy adds the shortcodes gs and glossy. For example:
[gs NYSE] – this is the quick way. 
[glossy term=”NYSE”] – a longer form, does the same as [gs NYSE]
You can also specify the inline attribute:
[glossy term=”NYSE” inline=”false”] – show the definition in a tooltip 
[glossy term=”NYSE” inline=”true”] – show the definition in the body of your post content. 
[gs inline=”true” nyse] – Same as above.
Terms are defined in the WordPress dashboard and can be used throughout your site.
The tooltip is created by the Tippy plugin, so showing definitions in a tooltip requires Tippy in order to work.
If you want to create a page that shows visitors an index of all your Glossy entries, use the [glossyindex] shortcode. Just insert [glossyindex] into any post or page and it will take care of the rest. By default, it shows a header with an index of first characters. You can turn it off by using [glossyindex header=”off”]

Glossy

Glossy allows you to define information text that can be used throughout your site with a simple shortcode.

Tippy vs Glossy