WordPress Glossary Plugin (CMTG) - Extras - Performance Optimization
Performance Optimization
Note: the optimization feature was introduced in version 4.4.1.
The WordPress Glossary plugin includes a wide range of settings, and it’s not always clear which ones should be enabled or disabled - especially when the goal is to optimize glossary performance.
To simplify this process, we’ve added a new option that automatically adjusts a group of settings to improve speed and efficiency.
To enable this option, navigate to Admin Dashboard → CM Tooltip Glossary → Settings → General Settings tab.

Under the General Settings section, find the option Optimize for Speed. Click the button Optimize to automatically configure the relevant settings.

If you want to revert to your manually configured performance settings, you can click the button Cancel optimization.

Below is the list of settings affected by this optimization:
- Run QuickScan before parsing - Enable.
- Scripts loading type - Choose the option "Load the scripts only when tooltips are detected".
- Only highlight on "main" WP query - Enable.
- Run the function outputting the Glossary Index Page only once - Enable.
- Enable the caching mechanisms - Enable.
- Enable the caching on Glossary Index - Enable.
- Enable the caching on posts/pages - Enable.
- Enable the pre-caching - Enable.
- Cache expiration - Set to "30" days.
- Compress cached content - Disable.
- Clear caches actively - Disable.
- Remove the parsing of the excerpts - Enable.
- Move tooltip contents to footer - Enable.
- Don't use the DOM parser for the content - Disable.
- Tooltip Parsing Priority - Set the value to "20000".
- Use a non-minified version of tooltip script - Disable.
- Turn on AMP - Disable.
- Parse content which is returned on glossary search - Disable.
- Load the scripts in footer - Enable.
- Enable glossary filter for the content which is loaded using AJAX - Enable.
- Highlight the terms in comments - Disable.
- Highlight the terms in Text Widget - Disable.
- Run the API calls on the Glossary Index page - Disable.
- Disable loader animation on search - Enable.
- Use Fast-live-Filter - Enable.
- Paginate Glossary Index page (items per page) - Set the value to "100".
- Pagination type - Choose the option to "Server-side".
- Tooltip display animation / Tooltip hide animation - For both settings choose the option "No animation".
Note: if you work with large glossary which contains 1000+ terms, we recommend you to disable the option Enable the pre-caching, as enabling it can slow down the performance.
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