The Alphabetic navigation is a box that filters terms based on their first letter.
Alphabetic navigation
The WordPress Glossary plugin supports any UTF-8 characters, allowing you to build an alphabetic index for non-English terms.
Finding the Settings
You will find the settings in Admin Dashboard → CM Tooltip Glossary → Settings → Glossary Index Page tab.
Glossary index page settings
Scroll down to the section called Alphabetic Index. The options are:
Alphabetic index settings
Display Alphabetical Index - Enable this option to show the alphabetical bar on the glossary index page.
Stretch the alphabetic index to 100% - If enabled, the index will cover the complete width of the page.
Letters in alphabetic index - To start using the tooltip glossary in a UTF-8 characters set, all you have to do is enter characters used in your language, separated by a comma as shown in the example below.
Setting up letters in the alphabetic index
The index will respect the order in which you place the letters in the "Letters in alphabetic index" setting. This is useful for languages that contain characters not present in the English alphabet, such as "ż", "ß", "ø" and so on.
Size of the letters in alphabetic index - Choose between small, medium and big.
Show numeric [0-9] in alphabetic index - Show or hide numeric items in the alphabetical index.
Front-end example
Show all [ALL] in alphabetic index - Clicking on "ALL" will shows all terms.
Front-end example
Show matching elements counts in alphabetic index - Display the number of terms when hovering the mouse over that letter.
Front-end example
Show found matching results count below alphabetical index - Enable this option if you want to show the number of found terms below the alphabetical index.
Show alphabetic index as round elements - Changes the icons from rectangles to circles.
Front-end example
Show empty letters in alphabetic index - Show or hide letters that don't have terms in the glossary.
Front-end example
What letter should be preselected in alphabetic index - Letter selected by default when the page is loaded.
Consider non-latin letters separate from their latin base - When this setting is unchecked, terms starting with: "A" and "Á" will be displayed for "A".
Use titles for sorting instead of permalinks - Updating the title will update the position.
Enable additional sorting by the first letters - Prevents multiple occurrences of the same index letter. Enable this option only if sorting works incorrectly.
Enable Numeric Sorting - Turn on this option to enable numeric sorting for terms with numbers in the title. If enabled, numeric values within titles will be compared as numbers instead of lexicographically. Note: this option was introduced in version 4.4.0.
Disabled vs Enabled
What locale should be used for sorting - If left empty, the locale of the Wordpress installation will be used.
Limit items in the glossary index page - Shows a limited number of items for each alphabet letter. Set 0 to show all items (it disables the setting). Note: enabling this setting disables pagination.
TIP: Adding Separator Line
To increase readability, you can break the alphabetic line filter into two or more lines by adding "|" between the letters in the setting, as if it was another letter.
Put "|" between letters separated by commas where you would like a new line to appear:
Adding separator line
Below is an example of a frontend alphabetic filter with a new line after 'c':
Multiline alphabetic navigation
Warning: This option only works for the Client-side Pagination type. See this page about pagination.
