WPPedia Glossary Plugin

Bastian Fießinger

steinrein

<p><strong>WPPedia – The best Glossary Plugin for WordPress</strong></p>
<p>With WPPedia you can build a Glossary / Encyclopedia / Lexicon in WordPress with ease.</p>
<p>Having a glossary on your site can be a very efficient way to increase your User Experience, SEO and Google Rankings.<br />
Glossary by WPPedia combines all the tools you need to build the perfect web glossary solution.</p>
<p>Glossary by WPPedia offers the best out of the box system for creating a glossary / encyclopedia on your Website and comes with a <strong>free</strong> and a <strong>PRO</strong> Version to fit all your needs.</p>
<h3>What can this Glossary plugin do for you?</h3>
<h4>🅰️ Alphabetical Index / archive</h4>
<p>Glossary by WPPedia creates glossary archives with posts indexed by their initial character.</p>
<h4>⛓️ Automated crosslinking between glossary articles</h4>
<p>Our Glossary plugin comes with a powerful automatic crosslinking / auto linking engine.</p>
<p>Glossary by WPPedia automatically recognizes any occurances of terms associated to another glossary article on your page.<br />
All terms are then linked to the corresponding post and provided with a tooltip, which increases the user-friendliness of the page</p>
<p>Now you don’t need to take the time consuming effort of manually adding internal links all over your glossary term’s content.</p>
<p>The free Version of WPPedia allows you to add up to 3 seperate alternative post terms for each glossary term. So if you have a glossary term about Elon Musk and you want this post to be linked if you type E. Musk in another article this feature is the right for your needs.</p>
<h4>ℹ️ Beautifully styled tooltips</h4>
<p>All automatic generated links are rendered with tooltips just like it’s known from pages like Wikipedia. These tooltips help your users to browse through your encyclopedia in a very efficient way. Hovering over an autogenerated link will reveal a beautiful card containing useful data giving you a brief insight what’s behind the next glossary article. By the way: Glossary by WPPedia free offers you 4 different tooltip styles in the free version.</p>
<p>So you may ask, when Glossary by WPPedia renders the tooltips with their regarding excerpts on every post, isn’t it possible that Google recognizes this as duplicate content?<br />
No! The tooltips content is not visible to search engines on page load. It get’s fetched asynchronous only when hovering an automatic generated link.</p>
<p>Sounds great? It is!</p>
<h4>🔎 Autosuggest search for glossary terms</h4>
<p>The Glossary plugin comes with an easy to use searchbar with autosuggestions. No need to submit a search form to get the expected results. Just click on a result while searching and you will get redirected to the matching term.</p>
<h4>✍️ Support for Gutenberg and other page builders</h4>
<p>Of course the plugin is <strong>100%</strong> compatible with Gutenberg and other page builders out of the box – You don’t need to worry about this.</p>
<h4>🍦 Only vanilla JavaScript</h4>
<p>Speed matters! Glossary by WPPedia works completely without jQuery as a dependency. All frontend scripts are running on good old plain (yet modern) JavaScript.</p>
<h4>💖 Need more?</h4>
<p>We are constantly updating this plugin to offer as many features as possible.<br />
Have a feature request? Don’t hesitate and <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wppedia/" rel="ugc">contact us</a>!</p>
<h3>What is a glossary?</h3>
<p>A glossary, often called encyclopedia or lexicon is an industry-specific word list with the corresponding explanations.<br />
It’s very important that the terms defined are easy to understand and comprehensible.</p>
<h3>How can your website benefit from a glossary?</h3>
<p>Your website is likely filled with blog posts, shop products, case studies and more. Everything you need to get conversions, leads, etc.</p>
<p>Providing a glossary on your website on the other hand is an ideal way to pass expert knowledge about a specific topic.<br />
It is a win-win situation for everyone involved: The user finds everything in one place and does not have to pull information “externally”, you, the website owner, keep your visitors on your page.<br />
These visitors are then more likely to convert into customers.</p>
<p>However, by providing educational and informational quality content you can significantly improve your website’s SEO and ranking on search engines like Google, Bing, etc.</p>
<h3>Who can benefit from Glossary by WPPedia?</h3>
<p>✔ Blogs<br />
✔ eCommerce Store Owners<br />
✔ Niche Sites<br />
✔ Business Sites<br />
✔ Startups<br />
✔ in particular anyone who wants to increase his traffic with good content</p>
<h3>Free Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Alphabetical glossary index / archive</li>
<li>Extended Permalink settings for the glossary</li>
<li>Easy to understand template system / structure that can be adjusted via your theme or childtheme</li>
<li>Full support for the Gutenberg Block Editor out of the box.</li>
<li>support for all popular pagebuilder plugins.</li>
<li>powerfull and adjustable crosslinking solution to create links between your articles on the fly.</li>
<li>Up to 3 alternative post terms for searching and the autolink engine.</li>
<li>beautiful accessible tooltips for autogenerated links.</li>
<li>4 different Tooltip styles</li>
<li>autosuggest search for your glossary entries.</li>
<li>let the plugin generate the archive page for you or use a static page with contents defined by you.</li>
<li>all scripts run on vanilla JavaScript. No jQuery needed.</li>
<li><strong>2</strong> additional Shortcodes</li>
<li><strong>more coming soon</strong></li>
</ul>
<h3>PRO Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>All the features in the free version</li>
<li>Unlimited glossary terms</li>
<li>Let WPPedia create a crosslink index for each post. This ensures faster loading times.</li>
<li>Allow crosslinking to other post types (not just glossary terms)</li>
<li>Glossary categories widget</li>
<li>Visual assistance about all crosslinks that will be created while editing a glossary term (<em>in work</em>)</li>
<li>Version histories (<em>planned</em>)</li>
<li>Glossary term attributes for filtering and displaying in special lists (<em>planned</em>)</li>
<li><strong>more coming soon</strong></li>
</ul>
<h3>Support</h3>
<p>We offer dedicated support for all buyers of the <strong>PRO</strong> version.<br />
If you have any questions, suggestions or whatever bothers you we will try to assist you as quick as possible.</p>
<p>If you use the free Version of glossary by WPPedia head over to the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wppedia/" rel="ugc">Support forum here on wordpress.org</a></p>


Glossary by WPPedia – Best Glossary plugin for WordPress

The ultimate Glossary plugin that will fit all your needs. Create your own glossary (aka encyclopedia, or lexicon) with all the features you need! 📖

encyclosphere

psqr

<p>Write encyclopedia articles for the world from your blog! Plugin makes adding your articles to encyclosphere aggregators as easy as pressing a button.</p>
<h3>Step One: Set up your blog’s digital identity.</h3>
<p>First, simply install <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/virtual-public-square/" rel="ugc">the Virtual Public Square plugin</a>, as you would any WordPress plugin.</p>
<p>Next, set up the did:psqr identity keys from the users list display. You have two options on how to generate your DID: EITHER (a) let the plugin create keys for you automatically (this is easy) OR (b) create them yourself offline and upload them to your blog (this is harder).</p>
<p>Again, EITHER (a) <strong>Use the plugin:</strong> go to your Users list, and search for the account(s) you would like to create DIDs for. Admins will see buttons to allow generation, upload, or delete signature files for each user. Creating a DID for a user is simply a matter of pressing “Generate” and then filling out the form:</p>
<p>OR (b) <strong>Use the command line tool:</strong> first, <a href="https://public-square.github.io/cli/" rel="nofollow ugc">follow the directions</a> to create a specialized did:psqr identity; then again navigate to the Users list and press “Upload” to upload the file.</p>
</p>
<p><strong>Note:</strong> the only difference between option (a) and (b) is that the code that creates your DID runs either on your blog server or by you, somewhere else. The same sorts of DID files will end up in the same place, on your blog.)</p>
<h3>Step Two: Configure the EncycloShare plugin.</h3>
<p>After installing the EncycloShare plugin (this one), you must configure your options at Settings > EncycloShare. There are inline instructions there. Pay close attention to <strong>all</strong> sections. They are all important (especially the password and the license!).</p>
<p><strong>Important note:</strong> at present, you will have to get in touch with an aggregator in order to obtain a password and to verify a publisher code.</p>
</p>
<h3>Important</h3>
<p>The 100% free (OSS) EncycloShare plugin adds the encyclopedic articles on your blog to the Encyclosphere. This means submitting your articles to various aggregators, so that your article(s) will (if accepted) appear on <a href="https://encyclosearch.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">EncycloSearch</a>, <a href="https://encycloreader.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">EncycloReader</a>, <a href="https://encyclopedia.dara.global/#" rel="nofollow ugc">DARA</a>, the <a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/encyclosphere/olhghbhocpjleboiiigeljhimfilkfnn" rel="nofollow ugc">Encyclosphere Chrome plugin</a>, and soon others. This is a rapidly growing open, shared, and censorship-resistant database of publicly-available encyclopedia articles, and guarantees that your article will live on long after you are gone.</p>
<p>Contribute to the global encyclopedia network, while retaining total control and licensing over your work, and bypassing Wikipedia.</p>
<p><strong>Important:</strong> this plugin will not work without setup. Follow the instructions in the <strong>Installation</strong> section.</p>
<p>The plugin provides three pages/widgets:<br />
1. a “Publish to Encyclosphere” button with per-article settings, located at <strong>the bottom</strong> of each blog post and page;<br />
2. a Settings page, with global settings; and<br />
3. a Dashboard panel, listing of all encyclopedia posts (ZWI files) that you submit.</p>
<p>The plugin (and its required digital identity plugin) does the following for you, <em>after the required setup</em>:<br />
1. allows you to submit articles to Encyclosphere aggregators (see above), including all your text, images, and probably other data as well, preserving your basic formatting;<br />
2. for each submitted article, creates a ZWI file (“zipped wiki”: the standard encyclopedia article file format), deposited in a directory that you can make public if you like <em><strong>DOUBLECHECK THIS</strong></em>;<br />
3. creates a digital identity associated with your blog (which you can use for many purposes), which follows the <em>entirely self-owned</em> digital identity standard did:psqr (see below);<br />
4. digitally signs your article, using your did:psqr digital identity;<br />
5. allows you to configure basic data about your encyclopedia collection (such as license and language); and<br />
6. allows you to tag your submitted ZWI files with categories, by tying in with the WordPress category system.</p>
<p>NOTE: this <strong>requires</strong> the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/virtual-public-square/" rel="ugc">Virtual Public Square (VPS) plugin</a>. <strong>Install the 100% free-and-OSS VPS plugin before attempting to use EncycloShare!</strong></p>
<h3>DISCLAIMERS</h3>
<p><strong><em>You</em> are the sole determiner of what license you publish under.</strong></p>
<blockquote>
<p>While there is a default Creative Commons license selected, you <em>do not</em> have to use that license. There is a long list of licenses for you to choose a license from. <em>If you do not want to permit any other websites to make use of your content, then do not use this plugin!</em></p>
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<p><strong>Aggregation of your article is <em>not</em> guaranteed.</strong></p>
<blockquote>
<p>Using this plugin does not guarantee your article will appear in any aggregator. Neither the plugin nor the Knowledge Standards Foundation (KSF) determines whether your content will be accepted for inclusion in any particular aggregator. The programmers that run the two KSF-affiliated aggregators, EncycloReader and EncycloSearch, make these determinations independently of the KSF Board. Other aggregators in the broader Encyclosphere network are entirely legally independent and separate, and make their own decisions.</p>
</blockquote>
<p><strong>Depending on your license, your article might be published in places you did not know about or explicitly agree to.</strong></p>
<blockquote>
<p>If you do not understand this, do not use this plugin. <em>Anyone</em> might set up an aggregator and, depending on your license, they might legally republish your content. It is <em>your decision</em> to permit them to do so. But open content projects like Wikipedia and MIT OpenCourseWare have wisely decided to make their content very widely available. The KSF commends this practice and hopes you decide to follow it.</p>
</blockquote>
<p><strong>Article publishing is <em>not</em> tracked (at present).</strong></p>
<blockquote>
<p>The plugin does not display information about whether your publishing has been accepted. You must click through yourself in order to make that determination.</p>
</blockquote>
<p><strong>Articles can <em>not</em> be removed/unpublished with this plugin.</strong></p>
<blockquote>
<p>There is no “unpublish” feature at present (we cannot say whether there ever will be one). But two notes on this. (1) You can contact individual aggregators and request that they remove your post. Whether they are legally obligated to do so depends on the license you have chosen; most permissions granted by open content licenses are permanent and irrevocable. (2) You can try replacing the text of an article with a blank page and then submit that. It is possible (not guaranteed) that the aggregator you have chosen will interpret this as an intention to remove your article.</p>
</blockquote>
<h3>In more detail</h3>
<p><strong>The standard file format</strong> for encyclopedia articles, the <a href="https://docs.encyclosphere.org/#/zwi-format" rel="nofollow ugc">ZWI file format</a>, has many requirements (specified by the <a href="https://encyclosphere.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">Knowledge Standards Foundation</a>). The EncycloShare plugin makes your posts fit these requirements. The plugin takes your encyclopedia post, uses it to prepare all necessary files (such as images) and directories following the ZWI standard, and finally compresses the result in a single ZWI file. A ZWI file is a a kind of ZIP file, so you can use any ZIP reader to view the contents, if you like.</p>
<p><strong>The plugin then posts the ZWI file to an aggregator</strong> or aggregators of your choosing, when you instruct it to do so. Depending on your license, the ZWI file might then (eventually) propagate to other aggregators. Each aggregator is responsible for maintaining its own database. Because Encyclosphere aggregators are developing a shared database standard as well, they can easily share articles, including yours. (We cannot guarantee that your work will be accepted by any given aggregator. Developers can set up their own aggregators, by installing the KSF’s free aggregator engine, <a href="https://gitlab.com/ks_found/encycloengine" rel="nofollow ugc">EncycloEngine</a>.)</p>
<p><strong>All ZWI files are stored</strong> in a <code>/zwifiles</code> subdirectory of the standard WordPress <code>/uploads</code> directory. So an article might be found, for example, at <code>https://YOURDOMAIN.COM/wp-content/uploads/zwifiles/YOUR-ARTICLE-12345.zwi</code>.</p>
<p><strong>Publishing</strong>, or submission to the Encyclosphere, happens when you press the “Publish to Encyclosphere” button at the bottom of every WordPress post and page. You cannot, at this time, “unsubmit” an article, so make sure you really want to submit it. If you want to make edits and resubmit, you can. Probably a good way to <em>delete</em> an article from the encyclosphere would be to simply make your page blank, and then submit the blank page. That is sure to be rejected, and the rejected ZWI will probably overwrite the old article, depending on circumstances.</p>
<p><strong>The Dashboard Panel</strong> shows any ZWI files that have been created. For now, you will have to follow the links provided in the panel to determine whether your submission has been accepted. You can also follow links to download, edit, and view articles in your collection.</p>
<h3>About Digital Signatures</h3>
<p><strong>Your ZWI files are digitally signed</strong> and therefore can be authenticated as yours, wherever they eventually can be found on the internet. These digital signatures follow the <a href="https://vpsqr.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">did:psqr</a> “Virtual Public Square” digital identity standard. The KSF chose this standard because it allows you to declare and maintain your own identity on your own domain—so it is robustly self-owned. A digital signature is essential to maintaining your credit and claim to ownership in a wide-open network like the Encyclosphere. Aggregators will cryptographically validate your ZWI submissions (EncycloShare handles this for you automatically); such validation is required for acceptance by these network aggregators. All this is why you must install the (equally 100% free) Virtual Public Square plugin to utilize EncycloShare.</p>
<p><strong>Your digital identity takes the form of a Decentalized Identifier (DID) file.</strong> DID files contain identifying information you wish to share with the public and public keys used to verify your content. Your DID, when it is created, will be accessible at <code>https://YOURDOMAIN.COM/.well-known/psqr</code>. The Virtual Public Square plugin uses the W3C’s DID standard, and particularly the <code>did:psqr</code> specification, to attach proof of provenance to your content for distribution; further information on this specification is available at <code>https://vpsqr.com</code>.</p>
<p><strong>Users are required to generate or upload their keys</strong> before they can publish.<br />
The Virtual Public Square plugin automatically creates, uploads, and stores the relevant identity files according to the did:psqr digital identity standards. Instructions on how to do this (it is not hard) can be found under “Installation.”</p>
<h3>Usage</h3>
<p>Load a post or a page in edit mode. Some settings for the EncycloShare widget can be found below the text of your post. You can change a few values for each article you publish in ZWI format; these features and additions will expand. Any WordPress categories you add to a post or page will be added to the ZWI file format. Push the “Publish to Encyclosphere” button to publish your article to your selected aggregators.</p>
<p>This button is visible for these user classes: editor, admin, author, and contributor. A toggle hidden response returns the results of your submission; these server responses are shown once and not saved.</p>
<p>Go to https://encycloreader.org or https://encyclosearch.org/ to check whether your articles have been accepted. You can also find relevant links in the Dashboard Panel:</p>
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<p>A Dashboard Panel (the Admin Area home page found at <code>/wp-admin/index.php</code>) will list any ZWI files found in the uploads directory.</p>
<h3>Changelog/Terms</h3>
<h3>1.0</h3>
<ul>
<li>Initial release</li>
</ul>
<h3>Support</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://encyclosphere.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">Knowledge Standards Foundation</a></li>
<li><a href="https://encycloreader.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">EncycloReader</a></li>
<li><a href="https://encyclosearch.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">EncycloSearch</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Terms of Use</h3>
<p><strong>See DISCLAIMERS under “Important” tab. Users understand that their work will be shared over an open network under a license or licenses that they solely determine.</strong></p>
<p>Open Source Warranty. The Software includes certain Open Source Software. Open Source Software is governed solely by the applicable open source licensing terms, if any, and is provided “AS IS”. Other than as provided in the license, the Knowledge Standards Foundation makes no other warranties, express or implied, and hereby disclaims all implied warranties, including any warranty of merchantability and warranty of fitness for a particular purpose.</p>
<p>Knowledge Standards Foundation provides no warranty specifically related to any Open Source Software or any applicable Open Source Software licensing terms.</p>
<p>The foregoing language is not intended to limit Knowledge Standards Foundation’s warranty obligation for the Solution pursuant to Section 12.1. “Open Source Software” means software with its source code made available pursuant to a license by which, at a minimum, the copyright holder provides anyone the rights to study, change, and/or distribute the software to anyone and for any purpose.</p>


EncycloShare

Write encyclopedia articles for the world from your blog! Plugin makes adding your articles to encyclosphere aggregators as easy as pressing a button.

Glossary by WPPedia – Best Glossary plugin for WordPress vs EncycloShare