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Easy Glossary automates in-article term definitions
Easy Glossary adds glossary management and automatic in-article term highlighting, with tooltips, links and browsable term pages.
This job arises when a site uses specialist language that readers may not know, such as medical, legal, product or technical terminology. Joomla core can store supporting information in articles, categories and custom fields, and Smart Search can index content, but it does not provide a built-in glossary manager that finds terms in article text and displays definitions on hover or keyboard focus. A template override can change the presentation of existing content, while manual links and custom JavaScript can provide individual tooltips. Those approaches do not, by themselves, maintain multiple dictionaries or apply terms across articles.
According to the listing, Easy Glossary goes beyond those core and template options with automatic highlighting, configurable skipping of headings, links and code, A-Z directory pages, term pages, related terms, usage reporting and DefinedTerm JSON-LD. It also claims support for frontend term suggestions, CSV import and export, and an editor button for inserting individual terms when automatic highlighting is disabled.
It is aimed at sites with a substantial vocabulary and a team maintaining one or more public dictionaries. A documentation portal, catalogue, medical information site or multilingual product knowledge base might have a reason to evaluate it. A small brochure site, blog with ordinary language, or site that only needs occasional manual links probably has no use for a dedicated glossary component.
The listing identifies this as a paid download from Infyways Solutions and says it targets Joomla 4, 5 and 6 with PHP 8.1 or later. The directory shows 98 other extensions from the developer, but this listing has no reviews. Before buying, check the price, licence and support terms, migration and override guidance, and how the claimed search, structured data and accessibility behaviour are tested in your template. The listing does not explain those details or provide independent test results.
Listed on the Joomla Extensions Directory.