Heroic Glossary – Block for building Glossaries, Dictionaries and more

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20 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 7 listed. 13 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 2 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.

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Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 74% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

Crossed into this band 5 months ago; a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, which places it about 55% of the way through.

1. ★★★★★ TraceMyIP

   1.4y ago

   This is a neat solution for creating professional glossaries right in Gutenberg! The drag-and-drop interface makes building dictionaries and encyclopedias surprisingly easy. Love the A-Z navigation and lightning-fast search – very user-friendly. The SEO benefits are a nice bonus too. However, with only 4k installs and mixed 3.5-star reviews, it feels like it’s still finding its footing. The “not tested with current WordPress” warning is concerning. Great concept and solid features, but maybe wait for more updates before committing to major projects.

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2. ★★★★★ Martin Sauter

   2.3y ago

   This plugin provides one single Gutenberg block that renders a complete glossary including alphabetical index and fulltext search. Glossary terms are managed directly within this block. Very straight forward, very nice result, but limited to creating a glossary page. Terms from your glossary don’t show up in tooltips elsewhere on your website as you know it from other glossary plugins.

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3. ★★★★★ PB

   2.8y ago

   Easy to use, providing several functions other glossary plugins don’t: searchable, styling capabilities (Gutenberg), all the information is displayed on a single page, visually attractive. Ideal for a medical dictionary.

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4. ★★★★★ ellice909

   3.5y ago

   I was excited to try this plug-in but I couldn’t use it, literally. I looked for the post-type on the admin bar but did not see it. Upon seeing reviews, you have to use Gutenberg blocks. I don’t like blocks. I am sticking with the classic editor. I thought I’d save some time from making a custom post type, but I might have to make one in the end to fulfil my dictionary-ish needs.

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5. ★★★★★ -MJ-

   3.7y ago

   .. without Gutenberg :/ Plz change ‘Heroic’ to ‘Gutenberg’ This topic was modified 3 years, 4 months ago by -MJ-.

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6. ★★★★★ saccageparis

   4.7y ago

   It works very well, and it’s quite easy to populate but only if you are using the classic editor to create pages or posts. My main issue is with Elementor. You have to copy the HTLM from a classic editor page into a short-code block within Elementor for it to work, meaning you can have to edit it first into a page or an article in the classic WP editor, and each time you want to add a definition, you have to edit the classic editor version, then copy past again the code in Elementor. Not a huge deal but it’s fairly inneficient. This topic was modified 4 years, 5 months ago by saccageparis.

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7. ★★★★★ zo1234

   4.8y ago

   Had to uninstall this plugin since you MUST have the new block editor for it to work. Any of the 5 million+ people using Classic Editor can’t use this plugin apparently. I’m sorry but how do you make a plugin that totally disregards 5 million+ people who don’t want to upgrade to the ugly clunky non-intuitive Gutenberg editor unless it’s some ploy to nudge people to upgrade? Lol. I’ve never seen any plugin make something Gutenberg-exclusive smh… I’d say it’s likely that that’s why this plugin only has 3000 installations as of now even though there’s not many good competitors for a glossary plugin. Damn shame ’cause I really wanted to use this plugin.

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8. ★★★★★ newyard

   5.8y ago

   Finally a glossary plugin that works as expected, I need it for a dictionary. Hope they create a import function. Then it is perfect!!

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Recent releases and news for this plugin

1. — Version 2.0.1 (5 Jan 2026) (Fixed) Resolved “Cannot supply a strategy defer for script jquery ” error in WordPress 6.3+ (Fixed) Resolved “sprintf is not defined” error when adding or updating glossary items (Improved) Frontend script 2.0.1
2. — Version 2.0.0 (24 Feb 2025) (Updated) Latest block implementation adopted (Improved) Alphabetical ordering of mixed case terms (Improved) Compatibility with WordPress 6.7.2 (Improved) Updated example content 2.0.0
3. — Version 1.2.5 (29 Apr 2024) (Fixed) All filter bug within block editor and frontend (Updated) Readme.txt updates 1.2.5
4. — Version 1.2.4 (3 Jan 2024) (Fixed) Compatibility fix for WP6.4.2 1.2.4
5. — Version 1.2.3 (16 May 2022) (Improved) Tweaks and compatibility checking for WordPress 6.0 (Fixed) Bug when selecting all toggle and search filter applied resulting in empty sections 1.2.3
6. — Version 1.2.2 (13 Aug 2021) (Improved) i18n support. French translation example added from translate.wordpress.org project 1.2.2

Translated into 11 languages, 0 at 90% or more

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Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2026-05-22 4K+ → 3K+ down after 3 days in tier
2. 2026-05-19 3K+ → 4K+ up after 3 days in tier
3. 2026-05-16 4K+ → 3K+ down after 1275 days in tier
4. 2022-11-18 3K+ → 4K+ up after 245 days in tier
5. 2022-03-18 2K+ → 3K+ up after 262 days in tier
6. 2021-06-29 1K+ → 2K+ up after 209 days in tier
7. 2020-12-02 700+ → 1K+ up after 40 days in tier
8. 2020-10-23 500+ → 700+ up

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Heroic Glossary – Block for building Glossaries, Dictionaries and more: 3K+ active installs, 3.8★ (10 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-11-02. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/heroic-glossary