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How to Prevent Highlighting Terms Inside Links

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When adding terms with the WordPress Glossary plugin, you might face an issue when some link in your content is broken. It can happen if a link contains some glossary term, and it is automatically highlighted inside the link.

Example:

There're a few ways to fix this.

Exclude <a> Tag from Parsing

The easiest and best way is to exclude parsing terms in links by HTML tag. Navigate to Admin Dashboard → CM Tooltip Glossary → Settings → General Settings tab.

Scroll down to the section Term highlighting and find the option Exclude HTML tags from parsing. Select there the tag <a> and save the changes.

Highlight Only Space Separated Terms

An alternative way is to highlight only space separated terms. As words in links are mostly wrapped by other words or symbols, these terms will not be highlighted. In the same section Term highlighting, find and enable the option Highlight only space separated terms, then save the changes.

Prevent Parsing Using Shortcode

Another way is to wrap the link with the shortcode [glossary_exclude].

When editing the page, simply wrap the link with the opening and closing shortcodes, then save the changes. Example: [glossary_exclude] link [/glossary_exclude]

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