Glossary for WordPress Plugin Directory

Adding a glossary to your website can be a smart move to improve your users’ reading experience and significantly improve SEO and rankings.

If you’re looking for the ultimate glossary plugin for your WordPress site, look no further: you’ve found it!

Glossary by Codeat is the freemium WordPress plugin that allows you to create a glossary for your website and turn your content into a complete and navigable resource. It comes with a free and a PRO version.

What is the superpower of Glossary by Codeat? Glossary by Codeat automatically generates word lists from your content and creates styled tooltips, enhancing user engagement without manual effort.

The terms and definitions will be grouped in a glossary or dictionary section and automatically linked to the corresponding words within your posts and pages.

You can use Glossary by Codeat with the classic WordPress editor or with Gutenberg: it’s 100% compatible.

Real-World Applications Let’s say you have a food blog.

How great would it be to show your readers a tooltip (and a direct link) to the description of an ingredient (or kitchen utensil) without them having to leave your website?

And what if you run an online store selling fishing gear?

With the Glossary plugin, you can provide detailed descriptions of your merchandise and suggest related products directly from your store’s pages.

Are you a big fan of Back to the Future and want to create a digital encyclopedia that covers all aspects of your favorite saga?

With Glossary by Codeat, it’s a piece of cake! See this demo.

Are you an affiliate marketing specialist? You can use Glossary by Codeat to include your affiliation URLs and descriptions to some of your key terms. This way, you can turn the tooltip area of the pop-up into a revenue machine! Cool, uh?

And what’s even cooler is that you can use Glossary by Codeat for free!

The basic version of Glossary is – and will always be – free.

FREE FEATURES The free version of Glossary by Codeat is jam-packed with nifty features! Its powerful engine automatically links every instance of a term (or set of terms) to a predefined list of definitions.

Here are some of the things you can do with the free version of Glossary by Codeat:

Group your terms by category and create vertical archives of terms through the shortcodes: Lists of Terms and Lists of Categories.

Choose where to activate its features: in all pages or only some of them, in archives, taxonomies, custom post types, etc.

Apply a highlight to your linked terms or a highlight and a tooltip on hover.

Style your tooltips by choosing one of the four free templates.

Link terms to internal or external locations.

Related/additional terms or synonyms are supported for the same term.

Add a dedicated icon to highlight external links.

Use it with your favorite plugins: Yoast SEO, Ninja Forms, Elementor, Bricks Builder, Fixed TOC, Easy Table of Contents, YARPP, role management plugins like User Role Editor, or multi-language plugins such as WPML and Polylang.

Custom integration for themes: Bricks, Divi and Genesis.

Smooth migration from the CM Glossary Tooltip plugin.

Play with the widgets: Glossary Search Bar, Latest Terms, and Glossary Categories.

Hassle-free integration with Gutenberg blocks.

ChatGPT integration (requires an OpenAI API Key) for term content generation

CSV term imports

Schema.org support for DefinedTerm

The free version of Glossary by Codeat doesn’t include dedicated support.

If you need help, take a look at our demo site, read our documentation, or head over to the dedicated WordPress support forum.

The PRO version tops all the fantastic features of Codeat Glossary Free with a set of useful extras that extend styling and customization opportunities. Let’s see them all in detail:

🚀 PRO FEATURES The PRO version of Glossary by Codeat includes all the free features plus several behavior-controlling tools to enhance your reader’s experience.

Here are some of the things you can do with the PRO version of Glossary by Codeat:

Advanced customization and styling of your tooltips.

Automatically generates glossary terms footnotes for your content. Demo

Full control of your tooltips behavior on mobile.

Match case-sensitive terms.

Link only the first occurrence of the same/any key key term.

Prevent term links from appearing on their own description page.

Add an alphabetically ordered list of your Glossary terms. Demo

Fully customizable glossary index block for visual editors (Gutenberg, Elementor, Fusion Bulder, Divi, Beaver Builder, SiteOrigin)

Add Custom Fields to your key terms, and use the integration with the ACF Custom Fields plugin.

Use the PRO shortcode/block to create a Glossary Index.

Advanced shortcodes to parse the content when using Visual Composer or Page Builder.

The PRO version of Glossary by Codeat includes dedicated support.

If you have any doubts or questions, our friendly support team will assist you as quickly as possible.

Our documentation covers the premium features with screenshots.

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