Tooltipy (tooltips for WP)
Tooltipy (tooltips for WP)
Description
Tooltipy automatically detects keywords in your posts/pages and displays tooltip popups with their definitions.
Version 7 is a major architectural rewrite (PHP 8.1+ OOP, Tippy.js rendering) with 100% backward compatibility for existing users (same database options, post meta keys, CSS classes, shortcodes, and hooks).
Key Features
- Auto-detect keywords and display tooltips on hover (Tippy.js)
- Synonyms support (pipe-separated)
- Case-sensitive matching option
- Prefix matching (e.g. “photo” matches “photography”)
- Glossary shortcode:
[tooltip_glossary](aliases:[kttg_glossary],[tooltipy_glossary]) - Manual shortcode:
[tooltip] - Keyword families / categories
- AJAX loading of tooltip content
- YouTube video tooltips
- Image alt-text tooltips
- Sidebar widget showing related keywords
- Extensible addon system
Architecture (7.x)
- PHP 8.1 namespaces under
Tooltipy\ - Tippy.js bundled locally (no CDN)
- Full backward compatibility: same option names, post meta keys, hooks
Installation
- Upload the plugin folder to
/wp-content/plugins/ - Activate through the Plugins menu
- Go to Tooltipy > Settings to configure
Screenshots
Faq
Yes. All database options, post meta, CSS classes, and shortcodes are identical.
Go to Tooltipy > Add New. The title is the keyword; the content is the tooltip body.
Create a page and add [tooltip_glossary] (or the legacy [kttg_glossary]). Then enable the glossary footer link in Settings and paste that page URL.
WordPress 6.0+ and PHP 8.1+.
Reviews
Excellent
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Excellent
Great support, great person overall!
By 
Awesome plugin! Support rocks! I had a problem with 2 other modules (Slider Revolution and Team Grid) and he managed to make it work! Grats for your work mate!
Very, very fast support
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This plugin does what I was looking for. Great tooltips without a lot of unnecessary features. I had a problem on the mobile site during setup. I received super-fast support. It was completely resolved, even though it was cache-related. It's a perfect solution; it's really great that the plugin developer actually looked under the hood and beyond their own plugin. I'm really very, very happy with it!
bug since some days
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Hi,
since a few days I get the following error line when using form submit under Formidable Forms on my site, where Tooltips is installed.
Warning: Attempt to read property "ID" on null in /.../wp-content/plugins/wordpress-tooltips/tooltips.php on line 1371
The error would disappear if I deactivate the Tooltip plugin.
Anybody with similar issue or a solution?
MH
Great!
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Amazing plugin! I tried several plugins for tooltips, only this works. Simple, functional, no issues.
This is not a tooltip plugin, this is a glossary term helper plugin w tooltips
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This is not a tooltip plugin, this is a glossary-term-helper plugin that makes use of tooltips.
It's decent as an auto glossary-term-helper plugin. It's pointless as a tooltip plugin.
Funktioniert ausgezeichnet. TOP!
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Sehr gute Arbeit. Bitte noch erweitern für abgerundete Ecken direkt im Backend. TOP-Arbeit!
Great feature set – backend needs some polish
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If you are looking for a glossary plugin that a) automatically adds tooltips to your content and b) renders a complete glossary through a shortcode: This plugin is what you are looking for. It works out of the box, but allows controlling the automatic placement of tooltips in many aspects. If you don't mind that backend lacks some polish (wording, typography, layout), then this plugin is for you.
Great, the best free glossary and tooltips plugin!
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Fantastic free glossary and tooltips plugin. Has everything I need. Therefore five stars. My blog has 1700 posts and will get about 150 keywords.
Excellent & so smart !
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The best, ever ! Many thanks !
Changelog
7.0.0
- Major OOP rewrite: PHP 8.1 namespaces, Tippy.js tooltip rendering
- Security hardening against Contributor stored XSS (CVE-2025-62917)
- Glossary footer link only appears when enabled and a page URL is set
- Backward compatible: all option keys, meta keys, shortcodes, and hooks preserved
5.5.9
- Security: nonce verification on AJAX calls
- Improved: excluded posts migration to postmeta
5.2
- Previous stable procedural release