A Plugin That May Be Of Interest To You
Some of you may have recently seen my request for a certain plugin that I wanted to find.
When searching in Wikipedia certain words are marked in blue and if you hover your cursor over that word up pops a description and image.
I wanted to add this feature to my Recipe website as a added user experience, and went on the search for a solution.
I contacted Wikipedia and they very kindly gave me the source code, but after talking to site support about implementing the said code into my website, they said it would be better to contact the theme author.
Trying to get to Generate Press support is like pulling teeth so I abandoned the idea.
Continuing to research this particular feature I came across an article that dicussed exactly that and it mentioned a plugin called "Tooltips".
I downloaded it and I finally found what I was looking for
I am in no way affiliated to this plugin but just thought that others may be as interested as I was in this particular feature
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I .. Love... This.. Thank you for sharing !!!! This would definitely benefit my site, which is related to health and sometimes includes some 'big words'. Thank you, thank you.
Paula
Will be very handy for your site Paula every time a common word shows up on your website the box will show up
I use Elementor and I discovered it has a tooltip function in the essential addons plugin. I'm going to try it out but you got me on the hunt! There are a few tooltips plugins. Which one did you use?
Well it turns out you can't use the Elementor tooltip (free version) on existing elements or text. Soo. I may give the WP Tooltip a try. :) Have you tried it on existing content? Thanks in advance.
Paula
Yes I have just started using it and have about 9 already working. The above image headed Stock is an example
Not complicated at all Jovo, if I can grasp it anyone can :-))) Maybe I will give some indication of the way it works, it is pretty simple
Where do you use it? I would love to have it instead of some of my gallery pages which are becoming too long with icons, and also too slow to upload. A list with the names of products and eventual popup icon would do better.
When you asked the question about this earlier, I searched and realized there were instructions for adding this feature without plugins. Did not suggest anything because I was not familiar with it myself.
Yes as I said earlier Wikipedia gave me the source code, but site support was not too happy about implementing on my site without knowing the consequences, which is why I searched for this plugin. I have a recipe site so I use it on certain words that need explaining, as you can see in the blog above, I explained in the popup what a mirepoix is, the beauty of it is that you can included an image.
So this was your own post example, did not realize this. There is yet another under the name CM Tooltip Glossary.
No doubt this is a good users experience with pictures. I always wondered about SEO of this when you add text only. Asked about such a feature 4 years ago. When you add a text in the popup, where does it count? Is this part of the post or not? Would it not be better to have such a text in the post directly? Those are my questions from long ago.
Don't know the answers on SEO but just take a look at Wikipedia nearly always on page 1 so it certainly isn't doing them any harm
Wikipedia is not based on SEO. It has hundreds if not thousands of backlinks only from my sites, you can multiply this by millions, this is how it ranks.
But where exactly do you type the text which appears in the popup? Is it somewhere separate so you use a shortcode?
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Not ready to do anything this fancy yet, but good to know how to think out of the box--pardon the pun--to do research. Thanks for the tip, Gordon!