WP Wiki Tooltip
Adds explaining tooltips querying their content from a MediaWiki installation, e.g. Wikipedia.org.
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Maintained • Last updated 143 days ago • 18 reviews
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Likely maintained (last update 143 days ago).
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Description
Adds explaining tooltips querying their content from a MediaWiki installation, e.g. Wikipedia.org. Therefore shortcodes can be used in Posts and Pages to mark keywords and link them to public Wiki pages. The well-known package of Tooltipster is used to create the nice and themable tooltips.
Main features of the current version are:
- Setup at least one wanted Wiki base and several other options at a backend page
- Integrate the Wiki tooltip in Posts and Pages using a handy popup in Gutenberg editor or simple shortcodes
- Shortcodes can be created by a TinyMCE plugin, too
Installation
- Find Wiki tooltip plugin in the “Add Plugins” page within your WordPress installation or Upload the Wiki tooltip plugin to your blog,
- Activate it,
- Create at least one Wiki base and review the global options on the settings page
- Add some tooltips and / or shortcodes to your Posts and Pages, and
- See nice and helpful tooltips where ever you like
Frequently Asked Questions
Sure, as long as the used installation provides an API structured like the API of MediaWiki it will work perfectly! You can use one of the public Wikipedias or setup your own Wiki URL.
Since version 1.4.0 the plugin provides the opportunity to manage multiple Wiki URLs! The wanted Wiki can be chosen via an attribute in the shortcode.
Yes, you can define extra CSS style properties that are used at all links to Wiki pages!
Since version 1.7.0 you can define a minimum screen width that is necessary to show the tooltips!
Since version 1.9.0 you can request a section by its title (anchor) using an extra attribute of the shortcode (section="anchor-of-section")!
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Wiki Tooltips Settings - Base Settings (top): manage several Wiki URLs
Wiki Tooltips Settings - Base Settings (bottom): set some options how to show tooltips
Wiki Tooltips Settings - Error Handling: set some Error Handling options
Wiki Tooltips Settings - Designs: set designs, stylings, and animations of tooltips
Wiki Tooltips Settings - Thumbnails: enable and style thumbnails
Create tooltips in all Gutenberg rich-text components
Integrate the plugin by shortcodes in posts and pages, too
Use the TinyMCE plugin to get help by a popup form - also available in the Gutenberg's Classic Block
See nice and helpful tooltips
Changelog
The last three major releases are listed here, only. Find complete log of all changes in the extra changelog file!
2.1.0 – C5H11NO2S | Methionine
Release Date – August 2nd, 2025
- security issue is fixed that made it possible for authenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages by plugins shortcode
- several warnings of WPCS are fixed, too by adding as much input sanitization and output escaping as possible
2.0.0 – C6H14N2O2 | Lysine
Release Date – January 3rd, 2024
- finally, the Gutenberg editor is supported, tooltips can easily be created in every rich-text component
- content filtering of tooltips is improved especially for removing inline stylesheets
1.10.0 – C6H13NO2 | Leucine
Release Date – December 5th, 2020
- the backend page is split into several tabs to have more space for some new settings in the future
- all dynamic JavaScript code that was printed in HTML is moved into static JS files to avoid problems with other plugins
- all JavaScript is improved by removing small mistakes and minor hitches
- the used Tooltipster plugin is updated to its version 4.2.8
- some improvements for binding external resources