Rating: 5 stars
I’m using this for a pretty scientific site where definitions of terms need to be clear to the reader as they go through the paragraphs. It’s easy to use and having the definition list in one place creates quick updates. No going to each phrase in a page. You just do it all at once in the setting.
I had a hard time finding the CSS for the hover box itself, but did find it down below in the FAQ on the WP plugin page. Now the box matches the rest of the site. Thank you!
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Simple to use and yet very effective.
Note: In some languages, blank spaces (” “) are not used for word separation (i.e. SomeLanguagesHaveNoSpacesInBetween) like chinese, japanese, etc. Therefore in those situations it won’t work as it thinks “SomeLanguagesHaveNoSpacesInBetween” is one word. As a work around, you need to space out the word so this plugin works.
Lets’ say you want to have the hover text just for “have”, you’ll need to append and prepend a space (” “) like so: “SomeLanguages Have NoSpacesInBetween”. An aesthetic sacrifice, but does the job.
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Works perfectly and does what it says it will do: add text hover/tooltip functionality. This plugin is easy to use and I’ve become a fan of all the plugins by this author (Scott Reilly) that I’ve tried so far! Thanks for creating so many great plugins!
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No short codes are needed and it works on all your preexisting posts and pages. It is stupid simple.
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So … totally cool, and can I just say it’s amazing that this seems to be the only plugin that adds hover text to text? Image hovers just seem dumb to me … because they cover the image. That’s what a caption is for. Anywho if the yellow background made you want to puke, like it did me try this hack (newbies: go to this plug-in, click “edit”, then search for “new-text”, add this to the beginning of that line: “//” [but without the quotes] to make it just a comment) and replace the $new-text command with this:
$new_text = “<span style='” . “color:#333; border-bottom: 1px dotted #000; cursor: help;” . “‘ . title='” . esc_attr( addcslashes( $hover_text, ‘\\$’ ) ) . “‘>\\1</span>”;
now you might have to retype the single and double quotes to get it work … wordpress sometimes converts those to the left and right quotes which will kill your code.
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I really like it, helps keep the page decluttered
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I have found this to be a very useful plugin that has transformed my site. My site is dedicated to learning the 2000+ Japanese characters that are needed to read Japanese, and I use the plugin to provide users with on-the-fly translation of kanji into the English keyword used to remember that kanji.
A demo of the plugin and a post about my use of it is here…
https://kanjisketchpad.com/kanji-keyword-hover-text-and-shortcuts/
It took me some time to configure the plugin to do exactly what I wanted, which is why I have not given it 5 stars, but the final result is worth 5 stars.
The configuration steps involved:
1) modding the css for the acronym class to provide a more subtle shadow effect
2) modding the tooltip appearance
3) editing the plugin php file directly to do some necessary replacements in the text so that matches could be detected at the end of paragraphs (see the support thread for a fix).
One more mod is still needed to allow matches to be detected when the text to be replaced is next to a <tag>. I know the author is working on this. For now I have to remember to put spaces around the kanji I want matched.
The author has been helpful in the support forum, though I managed to fix the issues myself.
The plugin could be improved if the backend provided custom css options with examples, and if the ‘ignore’ characters could be maintained as a list without editing the php file directly.
For people with no coding experience, it may end up being a little tricky to get everything just how you want it, but for anyone with a little php or css knowledge, the plugin can be a great addition to a site.
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Does what it says and easy to manage. The best part is that it works globally across your site, and doesn’t clutter up your text with shortcode. Needs to include the < and > characters in its character ignore list, though. Otherwise, code tags touching the target word in the text editor cause the tooltips to not show up for that word. I would consider that a bug.
For example, with the following code ORT won’t get a tooltip, but AFR will.
<li style="text-align: justify;"><strong>ORT / AFR Trend</strong> – Displays the ORT rolling Annualized Failure Rate trend by fiscal workweek.</li>
Less on the bug side and more on the feature request side, I think the author should also consider adding the ( and ) characters to the ignore list, as the plugin won’t work on target words in brackets, either. Better yet, how about a customizable ignore list of characters that we can add to, ourselves.
Like I said, almost perfect. I would highly recommend it as a nice, simple way to add tooltips to your text. Thank you to the author for developing this free plugin.
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It really helped for my historical website! Thank you!
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Does not work WP 3.9
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Easy to use. Mathias CSS suggestion looks nice. Any suggestions on increasing the leading and changing the background color of the text box from yellow to a different color?
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Does exactly what it says it will and simple interface.
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Seems solid plugin. Would have given five stars if not for designed interference with acronym tag (an issue to the extent abbr tag increasingly in the picture). For instance, I was unable to over-ride the small caps font of browsers (for whatever reason).
Why not set-up for user-settable formats via <span> tag. I hacked the code for the $new_text to
$new_text = “$1<span style='” . “color:blue; border-bottom: 1px dotted #000; cursor: help;” . “‘ . title='” . esc_attr( addcslashes( $hover_text, ‘\\$’ ) ) . “‘>$2</span>$3”;
As a part solution. Seems like developer should simply reserve a specific ‘hover text’ style perhaps.
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Love the ability to add and remove all hovers from the plugin settings.
great work!
Rating: 5 stars
Scott,
Simple, fast, works. ’nuff said.
Great Job!
Thanks,
Mark
Rating: 5 stars
Using the sempress theme I didn’t need to add any CSS to make acronyms visible.
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Very good plugin, simple & efficient.
I’d just recommend to add a little CSS so that the accronyms are visible, I added that personally:
abbr, acronym {
border-bottom: .1em dotted;
cursor: help;
}