Clever Linked Terms

Clever Linked Terms helps you turn ordinary WordPress content into a connected glossary and knowledge system. Create terms once, then let the plugin automatically link them across posts, pages, selected custom post types, and optionally FluentCommunity content. Visitors can hover linked terms for quick tooltip definitions, open full glossary pages, browse an A-Z index, and explore related concepts when Terms Engine features are enabled. Version 1.2.2 keeps the new Gutenberg / WordPress Block Editor support inside Term Studio and improves block rendering/scroll behavior for that editor workflow. Version 1.2.0 added optional Gutenberg / WordPress Block Editor support inside Term Studio for glossary term definitions. When enabled, the Block Editor owns the definition body while Term Studio continues to manage the structured glossary fields, relationships, sources, SEO fields, tags, and linking controls. Classic/WYSIWYG definition editing remains available when Block Editor access is disabled. What you can build with Clever Linked Terms

• A public glossary or knowledge base for your WordPress site.
• Automatically linked definitions inside articles, documentation, lessons, tutorials, reviews, and community posts.
• A semantic term network using synonyms, aliases, abbreviations, and variations.
• Better content discovery through related terms, tags, categories, sources, and glossary maps.
• FluentCommunity glossary support for communities that need definitions, shared vocabulary, and learning resources inside the portal.

Core features

• Create and manage glossary terms in WordPress.
• Automatically link terms inside selected WordPress content areas.
• Show hover tooltips with concise definitions.
• Link terms to full public glossary pages.
• Control link limits so long articles do not become overloaded.
• Exclude individual terms, posts, pages, or content areas from automatic linking.
• Create a public A-Z glossary index page.
• Customize the glossary index slug and title.
• Sort index entries while optionally ignoring leading words such as "a", "an", and "the".
• Choose from multiple glossary index layouts.
• Customize tooltip, index, and single-term styling.

New in 1.1.0: redesigned admin workflow The v1.1.0 release introduces a cleaner management experience built around modern admin screens:

• Dashboard overview for plugin status and quick access.
• Term Manager with cards, search, status filters, pagination, and per-page display controls.
• Term Studio for creating and editing terms without relying on the default post editor workflow.
• Status support for Published, Draft, Scheduled, Pending Review, Private, and Trash.
• Cleaner persistent navigation across modern Clever Linked Terms screens.
• Better Community and User Manual links in admin headers.

New in 1.1.0: Terms Engine Terms Engine is a modular add-on layer for advanced semantic workflows. It can be enabled only when needed, and its individual tools can be turned on or off from Terms Engine -> Overview. Terms Engine modules include:

• Semantic Relationships
• Relationship Phrase Linking
• Term Health & Conflicts
• Admin Term Map
• Public Term Connections
• Glossary Knowledge Map
• Tag IQ
• Bulk Tools

When Terms Engine is disabled, its menus, maps, conflict tools, relationship panels, and public widgets stay hidden so the base glossary experience remains lightweight. Semantic relationships Clever Linked Terms 1.1.0 adds structured relationship fields so alternate phrases can point back to the canonical term:

• Synonyms
• Aliases
• Abbreviations
• Variations

Relationship phrase linking can be controlled globally, per relationship type, and per term. This lets you decide whether alternate phrases should automatically link to a canonical glossary page or simply display as related metadata. Term Health and conflict review Term Health helps you review possible relationship conflicts and glossary quality issues. Use it to find duplicate relationship phrases, review possible conflicts, mark conflicts clear, reopen reviewed items, and keep relationship data clean as your glossary grows. Term maps and public connections Terms Engine can show visual relationship maps for administrators and visitors:

• Admin Term Map helps you inspect term relationships and refocus the map around selected terms.
• Public Term Connections can appear on single term pages.
• Glossary Knowledge Map can be opened from the glossary index without taking up page space by default.

Map features are lazy-loaded and cached to help larger glossaries stay responsive. Glossary index layouts The glossary index includes several layout options:

• Modern Cards
• Compact Directory
• Split Index
• Minimal List
• Feature Grid
• Glossy Panels
• Knowledge Base

You can also control whether terms inside glossary index card content are auto-linked. Term titles continue to link to the full term page even when index auto-linking is disabled. Single term page layouts Choose a public layout for individual term pages:

• Theme Default
• Clean Card
• Hero Card
• Split Panel
• Resource Hub
• Editorial
• Minimal Modern

Single term pages can show the definition, relationships, categories, tags, sources, glossary return links, and optional public term connections. FluentCommunity support Clever Linked Terms includes optional FluentCommunity integration for community portals using SPA-style navigation. When enabled, the plugin can process feed and space content, reprocess content after client-side navigation, open glossary links in a new tab for community users, and track analytics context separately when Analytics is enabled. Optional add-ons and tools Clever Linked Terms uses modular add-ons so you can enable only what your site needs:

• FluentCommunity integration
• Analytics
• Import / Export
• Term Discovery
• Terms Engine

Analytics The Analytics add-on can track glossary impressions and clicks, matched phrases, relationship type, context, and FluentCommunity metadata when available. It helps you see which terms users are seeing, hovering, and opening. Import / Export Import and export glossary data for migration, backup, or spreadsheet cleanup. Version 1.1.0 supports glossary fields such as title, definition, tooltip, slug, status, scheduled date, categories, tags, sources, relationships, exclusions, and relationship linking controls. Term Discovery Term Discovery can help populate definitions, summaries, sources, and synonyms from optional external lookup providers. Administrators remain responsible for reviewing imported content before publishing. Performance-minded for larger glossaries Version 1.1.0 adds pagination, lazy-loaded maps, cache-friendly public map rendering, module-level feature controls, and safer index detection. Large glossary features are designed to load only when needed instead of rendering every heavy tool upfront. Documentation and support Plugin page: https://wordpress.org/plugins/clever-linked-terms/ Community and documentation links are available from the plugin admin screens.

1.2.2

• Improved frontend performance for large glossaries by keeping tooltip payloads compact and honoring the Tooltip Characters setting.
• Improved WordPress Content and FluentCommunity tooltip payloads so they prefer term excerpts before falling back to definition content.
• Reduced frontend DOM size by avoiding repeated tooltip data on every linked term occurrence.
• Improved Block Editor-authored glossary definition rendering for embeds and dynamic block elements.
• Improved embedded Block Editor scrolling inside Term Studio.
• Improved Relationship Phrase Linking setting persistence.
• Thank you to Fabien Fons.

1.2.0

• Added optional Gutenberg / WordPress Block Editor support inside Term Studio for glossary term definitions.
• Added an embedded Block Editor workflow so users can edit richer definition content while Term Studio continues to manage structured term data.
• Added coordinated Save Term handling so block definition changes and Term Studio fields save together from the Term Studio screen.
• Added Fullscreen Mode for the definition editor while keeping the focused embedded editor available inside Term Studio.
• Added Term Discovery support for inserting fetched definition content into the Block Editor when Block Editor access is enabled.
• Preserved the existing Classic/WYSIWYG definition editor workflow when Block Editor access is disabled.