Glossary

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  tradicionalista · Member · Aug 21, 2007 at 5:18 am

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  Does anyone know how to make a glossary for your blog?
  Thanks.

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  raincoaster · Member · Aug 21, 2007 at 5:37 am

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  By hand, just type it in to a static page. If you want, you can put hyperlinks into your blog for each of the words, but you’d have to search and edit in the links one by one.

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  abbydonkrafts · Member · Aug 21, 2007 at 5:20 pm

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  Also, you can use anchor tags in your glossary so you can make jump links.

  1. Add the word and its definition to a static page (your glossary). You would want to use the Code tab to put the anchor text.
  <a name="def-pc"></a>PC: Personal Computer

  2. Whenever you use “PC”, you can link directly to the glossary entry. This example assumes you have your page named as “glossary”
  To build a <a href="http://tradicionalista.wordpress.com/glossary/#def-pc">PC</a>, you need...

  Alternatively, if you have short definitions, you can use the ABBR element. I’ve got them scattered throughout my blog for “big words”. Opera 9 handles them nicely. Unfortunately, IE 6 pretends they aren’t even there. But, that’s fine with me for now since it’s not needed for reading.

  If you want to use the element, it would look something like this:

  <abbr title="Personal Computer">PC</abbr>

  In Opera 9, it would display “PC” with the style provided by the theme or default it to a dotted underline. When the cursor is moved over it, the status bar shows the “title” text and will show it in a tooltip if the cursor stays over it longer.