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Spindle Dynamic Glossary

v2.3.0 · by ASA Solutions Limited

Build a searchable glossary and automatically link terms in your content, with accessible tooltips and pop-ups.

About this plugin

Spindle Dynamic Glossary helps you build glossaries, dictionaries and terminology tooltips on your WordPress site.

Define a term once and it is highlighted automatically wherever it appears in your posts and pages. Visitors hover or tap to read the definition in a tooltip or pop-up, and a searchable A-Z glossary can be added to any page with a shortcode.

Features

  • Automatic highlighting in the post types you choose, every mention or just the first.
  • Safe matching that never touches links, headings, buttons, scripts, code samples, shortcodes or HTML entities.
  • Accessible tooltips and pop-up: keyboard and screen-reader friendly, dismissible with Escape, and kept on screen automatically.
  • Searchable A-Z glossary with live search and a letter menu.
  • Dashboard with a setup checklist, statistics and status at a glance, and a settings screen with a live tooltip preview.
  • Fonts: choose Poppins, Josefin Sans or the WordPress default for the plugin’s screens, and optionally use the same font for tooltips, the pop-up and the glossary on your site. Both fonts are included, so nothing is loaded from other websites.
  • Per-post opt-out from the editor sidebar.

Source code and development history: github.com/adedayospindles/spindle-dynamic-glossary

Bundled resources

  • Poppins, Copyright 2020 The Poppins Project Authors, licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.
  • Josefin Sans, Copyright 2010 The Josefin Sans Project Authors, licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

The license texts are included in assets/fonts/.

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