Ruben, thanks for this plugin, it seems to be the best one I’ve found for glossary-type functionality.
Three suggestions. Firstly, the default page for the plugin should be the Manage page, not the Options. Once the options are set, you don’t really want to deal with them much – the best page to go to straight away is the one for adding new words.
And it’s problem when you edit an explanation and paste in text from a web page (and I presume Word?). I think using “contenteditable” means it’s pulling in HTML behind the scenes – and this really screws up the tooltip output! Much better if it could be a plain text form field.
Also, it’d be good to include the option for a different style of outputting all the words. I’ve created a template for my theme that does this. It only outputs the letters at the top that have words defined, and it outputs everything on that page instead of jumping to another page. Obviously most suited to smaller sites:
<?php /* Template name: Glossary */ ?>
<?php get_header(); ?>
<?php
// Get glossary
global $wpdb;
$slt_glossary = $wpdb->get_results("
SELECT id, word, explanation
FROM " . $wpdb->prefix . "explanatory_dictionary
ORDER BY word ASC
");
?>
<div id="content">
<?php if ( have_posts() ) { while ( have_posts() ) { the_post(); ?>
<h1><?php the_title(); ?></h1>
<?php } } ?>
<ul class="glossary-letters">
<?php
// Output letters
$slt_currentLetter = "";
foreach ( $slt_glossary as $slt_glossaryTerm ) {
$slt_firstLetter = strtoupper( substr( $slt_glossaryTerm->word, 0, 1 ) );
if ( $slt_firstLetter != $slt_currentLetter ) {
echo '<li><a href="#letter-' . $slt_firstLetter . '">' . $slt_firstLetter . '</a></li>';
$slt_currentLetter = $slt_firstLetter;
}
}
?>
</ul>
<dl class="glossary">
<?php
// Output terms
$slt_currentLetter = "";
foreach ( $slt_glossary as $slt_glossaryTerm ) {
$slt_firstLetter = strtoupper( substr( $slt_glossaryTerm->word, 0, 1 ) );
echo '<dt';
if ( $slt_firstLetter != $slt_currentLetter ) {
echo ' id="letter-' . $slt_firstLetter . '"';
$slt_currentLetter = $slt_firstLetter;
}
echo '>' . $slt_glossaryTerm->word . '</dt>';
echo '<dd>' . $slt_glossaryTerm->explanation . '</dd>';
}
?>
</dl>
</div>
<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>
