Best tooltips plugins for WordPress
The most popular tooltips plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Easy Footnotes leads with 8K+ active installs, ahead of Text Hover (1K+) and Magic Tooltips For Contact Form 7 (600+). All 24 plugins tagged “tooltips” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 tooltips plugins
- 1.
Easy FootnotesThe most installed tooltips plugin, with 8K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 33 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 2.
Text Hover1K+ active installs. Rated 4.5 from 17 reviews, last updated 4 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.9.20.
- 3.
Magic Tooltips For Contact Form 7600+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, updated 1 month ago.
- 4.IZ Block Editor Tooltips
100+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 6 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 5.
Reference Manager for WordPress with Footnotes, Citations, Bibliographies, Tooltips and Glossary60+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, updated 20 hours ago.
- 6.
WP Popover20+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.9.35.
- 7.Accessible Tooltips
10+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 5 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.6.23.
- 8.WP Easy Tooltips
10+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 10 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.4.34.
- 9.
Easy WP Tooltips10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 9 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.8.34.
- 10.Inventive gravity forms tooltip
10+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, last updated 10 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.4.34.
All 24 plugins tagged “tooltips”

Easy Footnotes
Up in the last 7 days:3#2,423by Jason Yingling2 months ago
Easy Footnotes lets you quickly and easily add footnotes throughout your WordPress posts using a simple shortcode in the text editor.
- Installs
- 8K+
- Rating
- 4.8(33)
- Downloads
- 52/day

Text Hover
Down in the last 7 days:7#5,286by Scott Reilly4 years ago
Add hover text (aka tooltips) to content in posts. Handy for providing explanations of names, terms, phrases, abbreviations, and acronyms.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.5(17)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Magic Tooltips For Contact Form 7
Down in the last 7 days:2#8,063by magicplugins1 month ago
Magic Tooltips For Contact Form 7 is a WordPress Contact Form 7 tooltip plugin that let's you add tooltips to the Contact Form 7 form fields.
- Installs
- 600+
- Rating
- 4.7(3)
- Downloads
- 22/day
IZ Block Editor Tooltips
Up in the last 7 days:37#16,388by Ivan Tsoma2 months ago
An easy way to implement tooltip element in the WordPress Block Editor
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(6)
- Downloads
- 5/day

Reference Manager for WordPress with Footnotes, Citations, Bibliographies, Tooltips and Glossary
#20,015by CiteKittoday
Add sources from DOI, ISBN, PubMed, YouTube and more, then publish citations, footnotes, bibliographies, tooltips and glossaries.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 23/day

WP Popover
#28,046by Nurul Amin8 years ago
Easily add Bootstrap popover to your site. You can create custom post and use as popover anywhere in your site with short code.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Accessible Tooltips
Down in the last 7 days:655#30,036by Toile de Maître5 years ago
An extension to make accessible tooltips easily using the awesome TippyJS library (https://atomiks.github.io/tippyjs/).
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 2/day
WP Easy Tooltips
Up in the last 7 days:76#30,585by Thomas11 years ago
Simple plugin that allows you to easily add tooltips to your posts using a shortcode.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 1/day

Easy WP Tooltips
Down in the last 7 days:531#31,292by Wouter Postma9 years ago
Add tooltips to your content easily using a simple shortcode!
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 1/day
Inventive gravity forms tooltip
Up in the last 7 days:11,197#35,236by inventive3d10 years ago
Inventive gravity forms tooltips, transforms gravity forms description into a tooltip.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 2.0(3)
- Downloads
- 2/day

Add dynamic popups to highlighted words in your articles
#41,136by Fox Theme2 years ago
Add dynamic popups to highlighted words in your articles
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP-TagTip
Down in the last 7 days:7,664#43,631by eduardosada17 years ago
An sexy way to show a related post of one specific tag.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Minecraft Workbench Item Tooltips
Down in the last 7 days:7,743#45,266by rustybroomhandle16 years ago
Easily turn links to Minecraft items into fancy pop-out tooltips.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 1/day
Tooltip Crazy
Down in the last 7 days:1,554#46,459by Felix W.11 years ago
Tooltip Crazy adds a new button to the TinyMCE for adding tooltips to your posts and sites via shortcode.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 1/day

Easy Glossary
Up in the last 7 days:9,565#53,492by GrayStud.io8 months ago
A lightweight, flexible glossary plugin that auto-links terms, shows tooltips, and provides an index shortcode.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

MKB Glossar
#55,056by MKB Marketing & Consulting4 days ago
Manage glossary terms and synonyms with tooltips, optional automatic term links, and native WordPress, Gutenberg, and Elementor integration.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 75/day

Mambrum
#57,067by mambrum7 years ago
A plugin that adds Mambrum Experiences to your website
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Spindle Dynamic Glossary
Up in the last 7 days:10,804#57,556by ASA Solutions Limited6 days ago
Build a searchable glossary and automatically link terms in your content, with accessible tooltips and pop-ups.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Tooltip Menu
Up in the last 7 days:967#61,689by Prashant Thakur2 years ago
Tooltip Menu plugin places colourful blinking text over the menu or sub-menu of your choice.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 1/day

TC Perfect Tools
#62,900by Thomas Cocchiara4 years ago
Extend your Elementor and Elementor Pro with this plugin. It offers various capabilities such as tooltips, restricted content and more
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Easy Tooltips
Down in the last 7 days:6,326#67,193by crockdev6 years ago
Easily add tooltips to your wordpress site.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 2/day