What Are Tooltips and Why Do You Need Them?
Tooltips are pieces of information that explain or add to a certain word or phrase. When readers hover over those words or phrases, additional information will be displayed, making the content of your article more specific and easy to understand. In other words, tooltips are a useful tool to explain in detail terms or phrases that are difficult to understand or rarely used. Like the footnotes at the bottom of the page, tooltips will help improve the user experience as well as attract more visitors who need to find out more information. So, if you are looking for some methods to add tooltips to your WordPress posts or pages, don’t miss today’s blog!
How to Add Tooltips to WordPress
First of all, you need to install and activate the WordPress Tooltips plugin. Simply go to Plugins -> Add New, then search for the plugin in the search bar, and click on the Install Now -> Activate button.
After activation, you can add Tooltips in many ways. However, in this blog, we would like to show you 2 easy and effective ways to do that.
Add Tooltips to Keywords Automatically
Now, you need to create a new tooltip by accessing Tooltips -> Add new.
Next, let’s add the title which is the keyword. This way, the tooltip will be shown everywhere the keyword appears. Thus, this will help you save time because you don’t need to add more tooltips to other posts and pages.
After entering the title, fill in the synonyms of the keyword or title in the Synonyms of this tooltip section. If there are a lot of synonyms, separate them with the pipe symbol.
In the content section, all you need to do is add the description, explanation, or definition for the keyword.
Don’t forget to publish it after you finish.
In the next step, simply create or edit a post that contains the keyword or a synonym, then save/publish the post.
Now, let’s take a look at the result on your website.
Add Tooltips Using a Shortcode
If you don’t want to use the method above, you can also add tooltips by adding a shortcode to your posts or pages. This method will be suitable for you when you want to display the tooltip once in a post or page instead of showing it every time the keyword appears anywhere on your website.
Go to the post or page where you want to show the tooltip, then add the following shortcode:
[tooltips keyword="YOURKEYWORD" content="YOURTOOLTIPCONTENT"]
After that, don’t forget to replace YOURKEYWORD with the word or phrase that should display the tooltip. Also, replace YOURTOOLTIPCONTENT with the text that gives more information about the keyword.
Finally, simply save or publish the post/page.
Let’s see how the tooltip is displayed on your WordPress post/page.
Conclusion
All in all, we have introduced 2 step-by-step methods to add Tooltips to WordPress with the WordPress Tooltips plugin. We hope that you can do that for your site easily. If you have any difficulties, don’t hesitate to leave your comment below. Moreover, don’t miss a lot of responsive and stunning Free WordPress Themes to make your site more attractive.
