Text Hover
Add hover text (aka tooltips) to content in posts. Handy for providing explanations of names, terms, phrases, abbreviations, and acronyms.
The facts
- Rating
- 4.5★ from 17
- Active installs
- 1k+
- Price
- Free
- Last updated
- 23 Mar 2022
- Added
- Jul 2009
- Requires WP
- 4.9
- Tested up to
- WP 5.9.16
- Downloads
- 63,171
Our analysis
AI-assistedText Hover is a WordPress plugin that allows you to add help text that appears when users hover over specific words or phrases in your posts or pages. You can define which terms will display hover text and what that text will be, making it easier for visitors to understand content without cluttering the page with additional information.
The plugin offers various settings, such as enabling hover text for comments, adjusting case sensitivity, and limiting the hover effect to a single instance of a term per post. It can also use the default browser tooltip or a more visually appealing tooltip style.
Best for: This plugin suits content creators who want to enhance user understanding of specific terms in their posts.
What it does well
- ✓Free to use from the WordPress.org directory
- ✓Allows custom hover text for specific words or phrases
- ✓Settings for case sensitivity and comment integration
- ✓Choice between different tooltip styles
- ✓Provides hooks for customization
Where it falls short
- •Limited information on user experience or support
- •No details on compatibility with other plugins or themes
Verdict
Text Hover provides a straightforward solution for adding contextual help to your content, but details on its broader compatibility and user feedback are lacking.
From the developer
Scott Reilly's own description of Text Hover, lightly tidied.
This plugin allows you to easily define help text that appears when a visitor hovers their mouse over a word or phrase in a post or page.
Via the plugin’s settings, simply specify the words or phrases that you want to be associated with hover text, and of course, the desired hover texts themselves. The format is quite simple; an example of which is shown here:
WP => WordPress
Matt => Matt Mullenweg
The Scooby Shack => the bar where the gang hangs out
Additional features of the plugin controlled both via settings and filters:
- Hover text can be enabled for comments (it isn’t by default)
- Hover text can be made case insensitive (it is case sensitive by default)
- Hover text can be limited to doing only one replacement per term, per post (by default, all occurrences of a term are given hovertext)
- Hover text can be rendered using the default browser tooltip (by default, the better-looking qTip2 library is used)
- Hover text can be expanded to affect other filters
Note: This is not the same as my Text Replace plugin, which defines terms or phrases that you want replaced by replacement text when displayed on your site. Text Hover instead adds the hover text as additional information for when visitors hover over the term, which is otherwise displayed in the post as you typed it.
Links: Plugin Homepage | Plugin Directory Page | GitHub | Author Homepage
Developer Documentation
Developer documentation can be found in DEVELOPER-DOCS.md. That documentation covers the numerous hooks provided by the plugin. Those hooks are listed below to provide an overview of what’s available.
c2c_text_hover_filters: Customize what hooks get text hover applied to them.c2c_text_hover_third_party_filters: Customize what third-party hooks get text hover applied to them.c2c_text_hover_filter_priority: Override the default priority for thec2c_text_hoverfilter.c2c_text_hoverCustomize or override the setting defining all of the text hover terms and their hover texts.c2c_text_hover_comments: Customize or override the setting indicating if text hover should be enabled in comments.c2c_text_hover_case_sensitive: Customize or override the setting indicating if text hover should be case sensitive.c2c_text_hover_once: Customize or override the setting indicating if text hovering should be limited to once per term per piece of text being processed regardless of how many times the term appears.c2c_text_hover_use_pretty_tooltips: Customize or override the setting indicating if prettier tooltips should be used.
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