Add tooltips to your content easily using a simple shortcode!
As of April 2026, Easy WP Tooltips is a WordPress css plugin with 10 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 1.5K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0.1+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2017. Last updated 8 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: WPCode – Insert Headers and Footers +….
This plugin uses the Simple CSS tooltips by Chris Bracco and a shortcode to create simple tooltips. You can define a link, tooltip location and more in the shortcode.
To add a tooltip to your website, please install and activate the plugin.
Then use the shortcode to add a tooltip:
[tooltip text="The tooltip"]The text[/tooltip]
The above shortcode will add a simple tooltip on top of “The text”.
If you want to include a link or change the location of the tooltip, this is possible by using the following attributes in your shortcode:
[tooltip text="The tooltip" location="right" href="https://example.com/" rel="nofollow"]The text[/tooltip]
The location can either be top, right, left or bottom. If you don’t enter a location, the default location (top)…
| WordPress | 3.0.1+ requiredTested up to 4.8.28 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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