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Haoxuan Hu
Haoxuan Hu

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I built a WordPress glossary tooltip plugin

What I Built
Wordnest is a minimalist WordPress plugin that adds hover tooltips to terms in your post content.

You define your terms in the admin panel, and the plugin automatically highlights them in your content. Hover over a term → see its definition.

Why No jQuery?
Most glossary plugins still depend on jQuery because they were built years ago and never updated. In 2026, there's no reason to load an extra library just for hover tooltips. Pure Vanilla JS does the job perfectly.

How to use?
Open it on Github.

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