Hide Tooltips on Hover – Clean Up Title Attributes Without Losing Accessibility
by Jose Mortellaro · Uncategorized
Also makes 57 other plugins · 25.8K+ installs across the portfolio →
Hide browser tooltips on hover while preserving accessibility for screen readers.
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Health
A 88/100
no flags
Active installs
4K+
≈4.4K estimated
Momentum
+71%
downloads vs prior 30d
Biggest opportunity: Add “titles”, “tooltip” and “screen reader” to your wp.org tags. You rank #5, #5 and #6 for them without listing them, close enough for a declared tag to move you up. WordPress.org counts only your first five tags, so with 3 listed these are the slots worth spending.
88 health vs 58 average across 25,736 Uncategorized plugins
Install conversion
How it's measured →22%
of downloads still active
At least 4K of 18.3K lifetime downloads are still running, above its category: the median Uncategorized plugin keeps 0.6%, across 17,764 plugins.
Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Uncategorized plugins, not across the directory. wp.org reports active installs as the bottom of a band, so the real rate is this or higher.
This plugin shipped 1 release in the last 12 months, and every existing install that updated counted as another download. wp.org publishes no split between first installs and updates, so we show the raw rate rather than guess at one.
Details
Directory ranking optimization
How it's scored →How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.
Excellent listing optimization
Most to gain: Rating quality
Updated 30 days ago
Tested up to WordPress 7.1.4, the current branch or newer
5.0★ over 10 reviews, smoothed to 4.25★ and held back under 25 reviews
3 of 5 tags set · short description in place
To rank higher: Too few reviews to rank on quality — nudge happy users to leave one.
Get the full rank-higher report →Search visibility
How it's tracked →Directory searches this plugin turns up in, and which way each one is moving. WordPress.org publishes no history of search positions, so this starts the day we first tracked a keyword and never backfills.
34
Momentum
Losing ground
-0.5
Velocity
places per keyword, 28d
12%
Breadth
of keywords climbing, 28d
-0.5
Acceleration
recent half vs earlier
wp.org is where the directory puts the plugin for that search. On merit is where it would sit if results were ranked on rating, support and updates, without the install boost. The last column is how far the wp.org position moved, from our first reading in the last 90 days to the latest.
| Keyword | wp.org | On merit | wp.org move, 90 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| hide tooltips your tag | #1 | #1 | 0 |
| hide tooltip your tag | #1 | #3 | 0 |
| title attributes | #2 | #3 | 0 |
| hide titles your tag | #3 | #5 | down 1 |
| title attribute | #2 | #4 | 0 |
| hover | #4 | #10 | 0 |
| tooltips | #6 | #9 | 0 |
| hide title | #4 | #6 | 0 |
| titles | #5 | #7 | 0 |
| tooltip | #5 | #9 | 0 |
| hide page titles | #3 | #6 | up 1 |
| screen reader | #6 | #10 | down 2 |
| attributes | #12 | #16 | down 2 |
| clean up | #13 | #14 | down 2 |
| hide page title | #8 | #16 | up 1 |
| title hide | #5 | #7 | 0 |
| hide | #16 | #16 | down 1 |
| title | #19 | #15 | up 1 |
| without | #22 | #23 | down 4 |
| aria | #13 | #17 | down 3 |
48 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 20 listed. 18 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words).
What to do about it
- Add “titles”, “tooltip” and “screen reader” to your wp.org tags. You rank #5, #5 and #6 for them without listing them, close enough for a declared tag to move you up. WordPress.org counts only your first five tags, so with 3 listed these are the slots worth spending.
Daily downloads
Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,488 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 2.8K · peaks are release surges
Directory rank vs rivals
wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you
Health trend
Composite health score, snapshotted daily
Update activity
How busy the existing users are, measured as downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites. A spike means a new release everyone's pulling; a long, slow decline means an aging user base that updates less.
Release cadence
Occasionally updatedHow often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.
1
releases in the last 12 months
5mo ago
latest release · v1.0.0 · 21 May 2026
7
tagged releases on record
Recent releases
What its installed base runs
via wordpress.orgShare of active installs on each version of this plugin · 89% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.
Estimated active installs
The public count shows “4K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Crossed into this band 5 months ago; a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, which places it about 44% of the way through.
At the current install trend, crossing 5K+ in roughly 355 days.
Install history since 4 Oct 2022
Recent reviews
All reviews on wp.org ↗- ★★★★★ Dan6mo ago
It simply works perfect.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ lstplcwnr1.9y ago
Forget snippets and js query what ever. All you need is this.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ Cristian J. Hidalgo2.9y ago
This kind of plugin is the result of someone with a high level of responsibility, the kind of work that without any doubts we will support. This topic was modified 2 years, 7 months ago by Cristian J. Hidalgo. This topic was modified 2 years, 7 months ago by Cristian J. Hidalgo. This topic was modified 2 years, 7 months ago by Cristian J. Hidalgo.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ nicogiussa3.5y ago
Great Plugin !!
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ RussWilley3.6y ago
So annoying that these tooltips appear by default. Such a relief that this plugin exists. Thank you, Jose.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ santifri3.7y ago
It does what it is supposed to do and support is excellent too
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ muellerwerbung3.9y ago
Works exactly as desired!
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ Daria334.1y ago
The plugin does exactly what it’s supposed to – very helpful, thank you!
Read on wp.org ↗
Latest updates
via wp.org changelogRecent releases and news for this plugin
- — Version 1.0.1 Fix: PHP warnings 1.0.1
- — Version 1.0.0 *Removed: Email to admin *Checked: WordPress 6.7 1.0.0
- — Version 0.0.5 *Fix: PHP warning 0.0.5
- — Version 0.0.4 *Checked: WordPress 6.4 0.0.4
- — Version 0.0.3 *FIx: Not working for elements added after the page is fully loaded if they aren’t links 0.0.3
- — Version 0.0.2 *FIx: Not working for elements added after the page is fully loaded 0.0.2
Behavioral tests
via WP HiveAutomated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.7
AI assistants
How it's measured →Whether ChatGPT and Claude name this plugin when asked the category question, and whether the readme gives them something to quote.
Not measured yet for this plugin’s topics. Its tracked searches are not among the measured topics. See the topics measured so far.
Readme readiness
3 of 8 pass · checked 27 Oct 2026Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.
- ✓ Says what it does "Hide browser tooltips on hover while preserving accessibility for screen readers."
- ! Has a FAQ No FAQ section.
- ! FAQ asks real questions No FAQ to judge.
- ✓ Names who it is for Names its audience or use cases ("ideal for", "who want").
- ! Names what it works with Names no plugin, service or platform it works with.
- ! Headings and lists 4 headings and 0 lists; assistants quote headed sections and bullet lists, not paragraphs.
- ✓ Enough to quote 1,637 characters of description.
- ! Tags match the text Only 1 of 3 tags appear in the text ("hide tooltip", "hide tooltips" missing).
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-05-23 3K+ → 4K+ up after 9 days in tier
- 2026-05-14 4K+ → 3K+ down after 2 days in tier
- 2026-05-12 3K+ → 4K+ up after 741 days in tier
- 2024-05-01 2K+ → 3K+ up after 173 days in tier
- 2023-11-10 1K+ → 2K+ up after 242 days in tier
- 2023-03-13 900+ → 1K+ up after 12 days in tier
- 2023-03-01 800+ → 900+ up after 8 days in tier
- 2023-02-21 600+ → 800+ up after 26 days in tier
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).
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