Title: WordPress.org Glossary Author: Tellyworth Published: May 23, 2019 Last modified: September 11, 2025 --- Search plugins This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress. ![](https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/wporg-glossary.svg) # WordPress.org Glossary By [Tellyworth](https://profiles.wordpress.org/tellyworth/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wporg-glossary.zip) * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wporg-glossary/#description) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wporg-glossary/#reviews) * [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wporg-glossary/#installation) * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wporg-glossary/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wporg-glossary/) ## Description This plugin registers a `glossary` custom post type for defining words, acronyms or terms. Those terms will be highlighted in public posts, with the definition displayed in a popup tooltip. ## Screenshots [⌊An example showing a tooltip with a definition for the term "meta".⌉⌊An example showing a tooltip with a definition for the term "meta".⌉[ An example showing a tooltip with a definition for the term “meta”. ## Installation To use the plugin, simply install and activate, then visit the Glossary section in your wp-admin dashboard to begin adding glossary terms. ## Reviews ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/b8d2dc17fdd6c82e386e23d86820eef4d0b46e5c6e7477991f1746d8aa8f96e2? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[You don’t need more](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/you-dont-need-more-3/)󠁿 [Gerard Blanco](https://profiles.wordpress.org/sixaxis/) July 17, 2024 If you are looking for a simple Glossary plugin, this is it. You don’t need more or any other gimmicky features. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/dd987854854e4736a604f94881523aa9748855fe37d9f4eae44ae7cc6ae3daf2? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Charming simple to use](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/charming-simple-to-use/)󠁿 [Frank Spade](https://profiles.wordpress.org/spade/) May 30, 2022 After wasting hours trying to get other plugins to work, I resigned and finally found this one. It is very simple and intuitive to use and looks convincing, even without changing anything about the looks. I love it. Thanks a bunch and keep up the good work! ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/52b117ab992fdb004158a53c03b242197e48bfc6de6e7e6a0e55d41d39c43a60? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Could be excellent](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excellent-10451/)󠁿 [Bianca](https://profiles.wordpress.org/bianca205/) February 22, 2022 I’ve been looking for something like this for a while. I used a similar plugin like this some time ago, but wasn’t completely happy it. This one is as simple and straight forward as it gets. Kudos. EDIT 22-02-2022: Bringing this back to 2 stars for now as it is not so excellent as I thought. It crashes with PHP8. And PHP 7.4 is end of life at the end of this year. There is no follow up on the support section either so I guess I should look for a different solution. Too bad. Expected a little more from Automattic to be honest. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/e0d6c70c106f10b5d9d17da6d1bc83ea574bf0b20baa8cf94727fefbcaa2617e? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Simple, Easy to Use, Does the Job](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/simple-easy-to-use-does-the-job/)󠁿 [dwloughran](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dwloughran/) November 25, 2020 Does what it says it will do. You create your glossary entries and it does the rest. I like that it defines a custom post type so that you can create a full page of glossary entries by filtering on the type. Only thing keeping it from being 5-stars is the absolute lack of customization options, but it’s open source, and free, so that’s definitely not a functional flaw. Nice plugin, folks. Thanks! ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/1ce858de930d27111535c1409ab25a52aaaf0f4be0b84a24a1c803bdee07f96c? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Simple and effective](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/simple-and-effective-1197/)󠁿 [Rolf Allard van Hagen](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ravanh/) September 18, 2020 Delightfully easy, elegant and effective way to create tooltips 🙂 [ Read all 5 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wporg-glossary/reviews/) ## Contributors & Developers “WordPress.org Glossary” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ Tellyworth ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/tellyworth/) * [ Automattic ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/automattic/) * [ Alex Sanford ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/alexsanford1/) * [ Rua Haszard ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/haszari/) * [ undemian ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/undemian/) * [ Richard Archambault ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/richardmtl/) * [ Daniel Richards ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/talldanwp/) * [ Dion Hulse ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dd32/) * [ CK Lee ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ck3lee/) “WordPress.org Glossary” has been translated into 10 locales. Thank you to [the translators](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/wporg-glossary/contributors) for their contributions. [Translate “WordPress.org Glossary” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/wporg-glossary) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wporg-glossary/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/wporg-glossary/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/wporg-glossary/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/wporg-glossary/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog #### 1.2 * Bump Tested up to. * Don’t create glossary hovercards for phrases within `