Why you need add image in tooltips?
Adding an image to a tooltip can be a visually appealing and useful feature on a website. Tooltips are small, informational pop-ups that appear when a user hovers their mouse over an element on a web page. They typically provide additional context, description, or helpful information about the element.
Here are some reasons why a wordpress webmaster need to add an image to a wordpress tooltip:
Enhanced visual representation: Images can convey information more effectively than text alone. By adding an image to a tooltip, the webmaster can provide a visual representation of the element, making it easier for users to understand its purpose or meaning.
Illustrating complex concepts: In some cases, a concept or idea might be challenging to explain solely with text. An image in a tooltip can help clarify complex concepts and make the information more accessible to users.
Iconography and branding: Including icons or branded images in tooltips can help reinforce the website’s visual identity and improve user recognition and engagement.
Product previews: For e-commerce websites or any site showcasing products, displaying a thumbnail image in a tooltip can give users a quick preview of the product when they hover over its name or description.
Additional context: Images can provide context and enrich the information presented in the tooltip, giving users a better understanding of the element they are interacting with.
Aesthetic appeal: Incorporating images in tooltips can enhance the overall visual design and user experience of the website, making it more engaging and memorable.
How to add image in tooltip?
It is very easy to add image in tooltip via wordpress tooltip plugin:
1: Download and install wordpress tooltips plugin
2: After activate wordpress tooltips plugin, please click tooltips menu item in wordpress dashboard, and then click add new sub menu item, the wordpress tooltip menu looks like this:
wordpress tooltip menus 14.3.6
3: Then you will open wordpress tooltips editor, in here, you can use WYSIWYG wordpress editor to insert text and image, for example, this is the content of our image tooltips demo in wordpress editor:
content of image tooltips demo ‹ WordPress Tooltips Plugin
and then in the front end, when users mouse hover the tooltip term –> image tooltip demo,they will see the images with formatted text in the wordpress tooltip popup window
You can also add more elements in wordpress tooltips editor, not only image, but also including audio tooltip (audio demo), video tooltip(video demo), QR Code, Google Map, PDF reader…and so on. You can check it wordpress tooltip Try Demo.
It is very easy, right 🙂
How to enable / disable tooltips for images
With wordpress tooltip plugin, you can not only add images in tooltip, you can add tooltips on images too, please check our detailed video Tutorial:
How to add tooltip effect on feature image of wordpress post?
1: login wordpress as admin and click tooltips menu item, click global settings sub menu item
2: now you will open wordpress tooltip global settings panel , the “tooltips global settings panel” looks like this:
wordpress tooltips pro plugin 15.0.2 global settings panel, in the current time we are using wordpress tooltips pro plus 22.0.8
3: you will find there are option ” Enable Tooltips for Image? “, please enable it.
4: then in the option ” Tooltips for Image setting”, please select “use alt attribute in image tag as content of tooltips for image”
5: then when you add a featured image in wordpress post, please add text in the ALT field of the featured image
insert tooltip shortcode in alt filed of image
Then in the front end, when mouse hover the featured image in wordpress post, you will find the tooltip text displayed in tooltip popup window
How to add wordpress tooltip to the image on hover
Enalbe WordPress Tooltip for image setting
WordPress Tooltip plugin for image Keyword Matching Mode
Use ALT attribute in img tag as content of tooltips for image
The option help you display the value of the alt attribute as a wordpress tooltip when mousing over the image. Select the option at first, and then go to post editor, add the ALT attribute to your images, everything is OK.
How to add a ALT attribute to your images?
You need upload an image into your post in post editor at first, after the image is uploaded, edit the image details, input the content in the field of Alternative Text. Now when you mouse over the image, you will see the alt attribute text appearing in the tooltip.
Use REL attribute in image tag as content of tooltips for image
Please note: Many users don’t know how to use rel attribute in newest wordpress gutenberg editor, we have written an guide for this, please check: “Image Tooltip Guide: How to Use “REL” As Image Tooltip Content via WordPress GutenBerg Editor“ The option help you display the value of the REL attribute as a wordpress tooltip when mousing over the image. Select the option at first, and then go to post editor, add the REL attribute to your images, everything is OK.
How to add a REL attribute to your images?
add a REL attribute to your images
You need upload an image into your post in post editor at first, after the image is uploaded, edit the image details, input intro text in the field of link rel. Now when you mouse over the image, you will see the REL text appearing in the tooltip.
Use title attribute in image link as content of tooltiops for image
The option help you display the value of the title attribute as a tooltip when mousing over the image. Select the option at first, and then go to post editor, add the title attribute to your images, everything is OK.
How to add a title attribute to your images?
add a title attribute to your images
You need upload an image into your post in post editor at first, after the image is uploaded, edit the image details, input intro text in the field of image title attribute. Now when you mouse over the image, you will see the title text appearing in the tooltip. Please check wordpress tooltip for image demo
How to Add Image Tooltip for WordPress Elementor Page Buidler?
WordPress elementor page builder is a great page builder plugin, Our wordpress tooltip plugin support elementor automatically, if you enter some wordpress tooltips keyword in elementor text editor, our tooltips plugin will scan these text and add tooltips effects on tooltips keyword automatically, also if you are upload an image via elements, if you enter “alt” attribute for the image, our tooltips plugin will use image “alt” attribute as image tooltips automatically
How to Create SVG Image Tooltip in WordPress?
1: This feature supported by wordpress tooltips pro plus version, If you didn’t installed wordpress tooltip, please login your account at wordpress glossary tooltip plugin site, if you have installed wordpress tooltip plugin, please jump to step #10 directly
2: Download wordpress tooltip plugin at “My account” page
3: Login wordpress as wordpress admin
4: After logged in wp-admin, please click “Plugins” menu item in wordpress back end
5: Deactivated old tooltips version
6: Delete the old wordpress tooltip plugin
7: In “Plugins” menu item, click add new at the top of the plugins panel
8: Upload the tooltips plugin zip file which you downloaded from wordpress glossary plugin site
9: Activate latest version of wordpress tooltip glossary plugin
10: Click “Tooltips” menu item
11: Click “Addons” sub menu item, you will open “WordPress Tooltip Addons” panel
12: At the bottom of the WordPress Tooltip Addons panel, you will find Enable / Disable SVG Icon Tooltips option box, it looks like this:
support SVG Icon Tooltips
13 Please select Yes to enable SVG Image Tooltips functionality.
14 Click “Update Now” blue button
15 Now you can start to upload SVG to your WordPress site, please note, by default, wordpress do not support SVG, so if you did not enable our “SVG Tooltips” addon, when you try to upload SVG images, wordpress will told you upload failed, after installed our plugin, wordpress svg support will be enabled by our wordpress tooltips plugin
16 When you write a post, just click “Add Media” button in your wordpress editor, to upload a SVG tooltip, it looks like this:
add media button to upload svg icons
In front end, if you open glossary index page, you will find the underline color of glossary terms has been changed
17 In your wordpress posts, you can use tooltips short code to insert WordPress SVG Icons and add tooltip effect on these wordpress svg images, please check sample at below, we added SVG tooltip for each svg tooltip arrow:
How to Create a WordPress GIF Tooltip?
Please check this GIF tooltip demo:
WordPress GIF Tooltip
It is very easy to build a wordpress GIF tooltip with 2 minutes
1: Login your account in wordpress gif tooltip plugin site: tooltips.org
2: Click “download” menu item to download wordpress tooltip plugin, it should be a wordpress plugin zip file.
3: Login your wordpress site
4: In wordpress admin area, please click “Plugins” menu
5: If you installed wordpress tooltips free plugin , please deactivate it and delete the old wordpress tooltips free plugin
6: Then in the wordpress “Plugins” panel, please click “add new” link at the top of the plugins panel to install the wordpress gif tooltip plugin which downloaded from tooltips.org
7: Upload the wordpress tooltips plugin zip file which you downloaded from wordpress tooltip glossary plugin site
8: Activate the new wordpress tooltip plugin version which you installed via plugins menu
9: Okay, now please click “Tooltips” menu item
10: Please click “Add New” sub menu item
11: You will open wordpress tooltips editor, which is a standard wordpress custom post type editor
12: Please click “Add Media” button to upload your GIF image in the wordpress tooltip editor
13: Please note, when wordpress editor upload an image via “Add Media” button, then insert it into wordpress posts, by default, wordpress will make a thumbnail image, and insert this thumbnail image into the wordpress post, in general it is not a problem, but when you upload a GIF image, the thumbnail image will not a really GIF image, that means may be you need use 1second to check the URL of the GIF image in the wordpress tooltip editor, if you find your gif image URL is something like abc300-300.gif, you can remove 300-300 in the GIF image URL or just copy your real GIF image url from wordpress media library, and replace this fake thumbnail image with your GIF image URL
14: Add other texts or images or videos or audios… and so on, in wordpress tooltip editor
15: Click “Publish button, and check browser URL, you will find it looks like this:
tooltips.org/wp-admin/post.php?post=3107&action=edit
Copy the number 3107
16: Now try to create a new wordpress posts, just insert a wordpress tooltip shortcode like this way:
Tooltip For Forms Demo - Message Field
3107 is the the number you copied in the step #15
17: In the front end, when mouse hover the GIF tooltip term, you will find a wordpress tooltip pop-up, and GIF is playing in the window
How to add multimedia tooltip to an image using tooltip shortcode
WordPress Tooltip Pro support to add multimedia tooltips to an image, you can insert many different multimedia format elements in the tooltip, which is anything you can hear and see, including text, images, sound, music, film, animation, video, audio recorders, etc.
Let’s try it, when you hover over the image, a multimedia tooltip appear with a description of the image, you can see a combination of different multimedia content forms, text, link, image, audio and video in the tootlip.
How to use it
We add the multimedia tooltip to an image using tooltip shortcode [tooltips].
[tooltips keyword = "<img src='Source of image' />" content = "Alternative Multimedia content will be displayed as a tooltip"]
NOTE:
1. Input the wordpress tootlip shortcode in the wordpress text editor. This editing mode make you write your multimedia tooltip content in HTML.
2. Select the option “Enable Advance Tooltips Shortcode” in “Tooltip Settings for this page, or tooltip shortcode will not work.
Usage example
Usage example 1
Input the wordpress tootlip shortcode in the wordpress text editor.
[tooltips keyword = "<img src='https://tooltips.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/girl.png' />" content = "<video controls='controls'><source src='https://tooltips.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/002.mp4' type='video/mp4'>Your browser does not support the HTML5 Video element.</video><h3>Multimedia Tooltip</h3>"]
Demo 1
The example present video and text in an multimedia tooltip.
Usage example 2
Input the wordpress tootlip shortcode in the wordpress text editor.
[tooltips keyword = "<img src='https://tooltips.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/fruit.png' />" content = "<audio controls = 'controls'><source src='https://tooltips.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/001.mp3' type='audio/mpeg'>Your browser does not support the audio element.</audio><h3>Multimedia Tooltip"]
Demo 2
The example present audio music and text in an multimedia tooltip.
Usage example 3
Input the wordpress tootlip shortcode in the wordpress text editor.
[tooltips keyword = "<img src='https://localhost/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/girl2.gif' />" content = "<img src='https://localhost/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/girl2.gif' /><h3>Multimedia Tooltip</h3><div><a style='text-decoration: underline;' href='https://tooltips.org/'>tooltips Pro </a> support any multimedia content. Hover the trigger, you'll see a tooltip that contains text, image, audio, vedio and much more.</div>"]
Demo 3
The example present image, text and link in an multimedia tooltip.
Conclusion
wordpress tooltip plugin is a powerful image tooltip tools for wordpress blogger, we have many more tooltips to add image in tooltips, for example, use Bullets Screen to add image in tooltips, use shortcode to add images in tooltips, Add image tooltips for photo gallery, that’s means each of your image in photo gallery can own a dedicated image / video / audio / text / link tooltips….etc
Here are ten application scenarios of adding images in WordPress tooltips:
Product Showcase: When hovering over product names or descriptions on an e-commerce website, a thumbnail image of the product can appear in the tooltip, providing users with a quick preview.
Image Gallery: In a portfolio or image gallery website, tooltips can display larger versions of images when users hover over thumbnails, allowing them to see more details.
Icon Descriptions: When using icons for various features or services, tooltips can show related images to give users a visual representation of what each icon represents.
Map Markers: On a map-based website, tooltips can display images associated with specific locations or markers, providing users with additional information or visual context.
Diagrams and Charts: When explaining complex diagrams or charts, tooltips can include explanatory images to help users better understand the presented data.
Infographics: To enhance the visual appeal of infographics, tooltips can reveal additional images or details about specific data points or sections.
Avatar Hovercards: On community or social networking websites, tooltips can show profile pictures (avatars) in a larger size when users hover over usernames.
Educational Content: In online courses or educational platforms, tooltips can display relevant images when users hover over specific terms or topics, enriching the learning experience.
Call-to-Action Enhancements: For call-to-action buttons, tooltips can show images related to the action, encouraging users to click or interact with the element.
Branding and Logos: On corporate websites, tooltips can display logos or brand images when users hover over company names or product names, reinforcing brand recognition.
