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Glossary Custom Tooltip Shortcode

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With the WordPress Glossary plugin, if you want to add a tooltip to some word/phrase/image on a single page but you don't want to or can't add it as a term, you can use the Custom Tooltip Shortcode.

Shortcode: [glossary_tooltip content="text" dashicon="dashicons-editor-help" color="#c0c0c0" size="16px"] term [/glossary_tooltip]

Shortcode Parameters

• Required - Use either content or term_id
  • content - The tooltip will display the content specified in the parameter. Useful when the content is not updated constantly.
    • Example -  [glossary_tooltip content="This is the text that will be shown"] term [/glossary_tooltip]
  • term_id - The tooltip will display the content of a certain term, specified by its ID. Userful when the content is updated constantly.

    • Example -  [glossary_tooltip term_id="10000"] term [/glossary_tooltip]

      TIP: Finding the term ID

      Edit the term and check the URL. The ID is located after the "post=" segment, as highlighted.

      

• Optional
  • link - Clicking the parsed word will direct the user to this link.
  • underline - The term and dashicon tooltips will not be underlined by default. If you want to force underline you need to set this parameter to 1.
  • tsize - Define the size of text inside of the tooltip. Note: this parameter was introduced in version 4.2.0.
  • tcolor - Define the text color inside of the tooltip. Note: this parameter was introduced in version 4.2.0.
  • bgcolor - Define the background color of the tooltip. Note: this parameter was introduced in version 4.2.0.
  • dashicon - The icon which will be used before term to display the tooltip (list of possible dashicons).
  • color - The color of the dashicon.
  • size - The size of the dashicon.

How To Use

1) Basic use case - the display of a single word or phrase existing in the content of your post/page.

Example:

[glossary_tooltip link="cminds.com" tsize="18px" tcolor="#ffffff" bgcolor="#802BB1" underline="1" content="WordPress (WP or WordPress.org) is a free and open-source content management system (CMS) written in hypertext preprocessor language and paired with a MySQL or MariaDB database with supported HTTPS."]WordPress[/glossary_tooltip]

2) Advanced use case - utilizing the support for the dashicons library built in WordPress. This allows you to easily add help/explanations with the eye catching graphic elements instead of plain text:

Below: A lot of examples displaying different dashicons with different sizes and colors:

Below: Basic use case shows the Example 1) and later on it displays how the dashicons can look in the text.

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