Creating a Glossary ??

  • At my cooking site, I want to start a glossary of culinary terms. I don’t expect everyone to read every post, so when I introduce one, I want to have it centralized, and simply allow the reader to click the term and go to the glossary. Right now, I’m thinking I’ll just create a page, or better, a cutom template for a category, so I can keep it in alphabetical order, and link to the “post”, that is the definition. Just wondering if someone knew of a better way.
    I looked at CG Inline, but didn’t see how that would help in my case. If David, or someone who’s more familiar with it can explain how it would work for me, I’d love to hear.
    Thanks for any insight.

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  • Do you want them all on a specific page, or just available when needed? You could use the Acronym Replacer to make the definitions pop up.

    Thread Starter Michael Bishop

    (@miklb)

    That sounds like a good idea. Even if I have a Page with glossary terms, a pop-up would be cool, and allow the reader to not leave the post. I look at it, thanks.

    miklb, there was a post on here a few days or so back that led to a site with a glossary – it was anime-oriented, and the glossary was done with separate pages for the letters, with a “header” of letter-links. Try a search back through the template and theme section….

    [Edit: here you go – found it…. https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/33309%5D

    Thread Starter Michael Bishop

    (@miklb)

    Thanks, I looked at that thread before posting, it seemed as though the whole site was a glossary, not a glossary within a site. I am leaning towards creating a cat called glossary, and doing a custom template for just that cat, easy to add, and keep alphabeticized, and then just link to the post. I could also just use anchors and have a Page with the glossary, and refer to the definition that way. Just looking for the cleanest, and easiest. I like the acronym replacer, and customizing the defs that way as well.

    Thread Starter Michael Bishop

    (@miklb)

    The acronym replacer was a great idea. I will still work on a glossary page, but I like the effect. I might play around with the look to make it more obvious that it can be moused over. Thanks orie.

    There is a glossary script that works pretty darn well called Glosswords. Sounds like it would fit for your needs: https://glossword.info/

    Thread Starter Michael Bishop

    (@miklb)

    I’ll take a look at it, I had seen it mentioned in another thread, the downfall was that it hasn’t shown any activity in over 6 months, but thanks, I’ll give it a once over.

    Thread Starter Michael Bishop

    (@miklb)

    The developer used some interesting new form of compression, and I couldn’t figure out how to decompress the file via Terminal on my Mac. The only apps that seem to decompress the format was Windoze based.

    miklb, I’ve downloaded it and extracted it. I can email it to you uncompressed if you like – it’s less than 1 mb (which will take me a while to send, but I’m not doing much else today anyway….) If that’s okay with you, you can post back with an email addy….

    Thread Starter Michael Bishop

    (@miklb)

    thanks vkaryl, you can email it to: me @ miklb dot com

    You can zip it or creating a tar gz file if you’d like, I just had an issue with his compression format.

    Okay – I’ll zip it, don’t have a program to tar gz it…. be on it’s way shortly!

    What about using PhpGiggle to link to the words in your glossary cat?

    Thread Starter Michael Bishop

    (@miklb)

    Well, I got it working, not sure if it made a difference, but I used the version I downloaded from sourceforge, not the the one vkaryl was so kind to convert to a zip for me. Ultimately, I had to delete the .htaccess file from the glossword directory.
    It does appear there is no support from the developer, I haven’t heard from him, though I sent an email for support.
    If anyone wants to see the interface, you can go here
    https://cookingwith.miklb.com/glossword/index.php
    I only have two terms, and haven’t spent any time trying to skin it to my site, or figure out how to take the raw code and fit it into a page on my site.
    But I thought I might share if anyone’s interested.

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