Inline Context – Footnotes, Tooltips & Glossary Notes
by Joop Laan · Uncategorized
Footnotes, tooltips and glossary notes for the block editor. Click a term to reveal context inline — no page jumps.
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Health
B 84/100
Few reviews
Active installs
40+
≈40 estimated
Momentum
+12%
downloads vs prior 30d
Biggest opportunity: Swap “tooltip” and “annotations” for “context” and “inline editing”. “tooltip” isn't earning its slot: it only gets you to #23. “context” sits at #5 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. “annotations” isn't earning its slot: it only gets you to #14. “inline editing” sits at #6 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. All five slots are taken, so one has to go.
84 health vs 58 average across 25,735 Uncategorized plugins
Install conversion
How it's measured →2.4%
of downloads still active
At least 40 of 1.7K 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 15 releases 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 11 days ago
Tested up to WordPress 7.1.4, the current branch or newer
5.0★ over 2 reviews, smoothed to 4.13★ and held back under 25 reviews
5 of 5 tags set · short description in place
1 of 1 support threads resolved in the last 2 months
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.
45
Momentum
Holding steady
+0.3
Velocity
places per keyword, 28d
29%
Breadth
of keywords climbing, 28d
+0.6
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| context | #5 | #18 | up 2 |
| journalism | #3 | #3 | up 1 |
| footnotes your tag | #8 | #16 | up 9 |
| endnotes | #5 | #9 | up 9 |
| inline editing | #6 | #18 | up 1 |
| glossary your tag | #10 | #19 | 0 |
| inline footnotes | #4 | #12 | 0 |
| inline | #12 | #23 | down 4 |
| annotations your tag | #14 | #18 | down 1 |
| footnote | #8 | #16 | 0 |
| wp footnotes | #7 | #18 | up 1 |
| tooltips | #23 | #24 | 0 |
| tooltip your tag | #23 | #23 | up 1 |
| a z glossary | #7 | #12 | 0 |
| inline related posts | #18 | #23 | up 2 |
| popover | #18 | #18 | — |
| callout | #20 | #21 | down 2 |
| inline editor | #15 | #22 | 0 |
| sidenotes your tag | Not checked yet | ||
45 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 18 listed. 27 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words).
What to do about it
- Swap “tooltip” and “annotations” for “context” and “inline editing”. “tooltip” isn't earning its slot: it only gets you to #23. “context” sits at #5 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. “annotations” isn't earning its slot: it only gets you to #14. “inline editing” sits at #6 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. All five slots are taken, so one has to go.
- One page off on “annotations”. #14 puts you just past the first ten results, where almost all the clicks stop. The gap to close is small.
Daily downloads
Since 28 Nov 2025 · 337 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 451 · peaks are release surges
Directory rank
Ranked about #21,400 to #22,800, alongside the other plugins at 40+ installs. Plugins with the same install count swap places between wp.org requests, so this is where most of them sit. Checked monthly, last on 21 Oct 2026.
Health trend
Composite health score, snapshotted daily
Update activity
Downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites.
Not enough installs to measure. This needs at least 100 active sites; below that, a handful of downloads reads as tens of thousands.
Release cadence
Actively maintainedHow often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.
15
releases in the last 12 months
11d ago
latest release · v2.10.0 · 20 Oct 2026
15
tagged releases on record
Recent releases
What its installed base runs
via wordpress.orgShare of active installs on each version of this plugin. 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 “40+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Crossed into this band 6 days ago and a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, so the real count is still just over 40.
At the current install trend, crossing 50+ in roughly 60 days.
Install history since 28 Nov 2025
Recent reviews
All reviews on wp.org ↗- ★★★★★ shannonpayne6mo ago
Super happy with this plugin. Ticks all the boxes. Easy to use, lightweight, accessible. There was one feature that myself (and client) wanted and after requesting this from Joop the dev he delivered within a few days. 10/10!
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ boxhamster11mo ago
If only more plugins were like this… Easy to setup, intuitive and light. Thanks This topic was modified 7 months, 3 weeks ago by boxhamster.
Read on wp.org ↗
Languages
via translate.wordpress.orgTranslated into 1 language, 0 at 90% or more
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
7 of 8 pass · checked 25 Oct 2026Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.
- ✓ Says what it does "Footnotes, tooltips and glossary notes for the block editor. Click a term to reveal context inline — no pag..."
- ✓ Has a FAQ 14 questions in the FAQ.
- ✓ FAQ asks real questions 14 of 14 read like questions a user would type.
- ! Names who it is for One audience phrase ("built for"); say who the plugin is for and what they use it for.
- ✓ Names what it works with Mentions Block editor.
- ✓ Headings and lists 4 headings and 2 lists.
- ✓ Enough to quote 2,910 characters of description.
- ✓ Tags match the text 3 of 5 tags appear in the text; "annotations", "sidenotes" do not.
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-10-25 30+ → 40+ up after 4 days in tier
- 2026-10-21 40+ → 30+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2026-10-20 30+ → 40+ up after 26 days in tier
- 2026-09-24 20+ → 30+ up after 89 days in tier
- 2026-06-27 10+ → 20+ up
Competes with
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