A new plugin has entered the WordPress realm: Annie, for all your annotation needs. Annie makes it to add and footnotes to your WordPress posts and pages. You can highlight using the default styles or you can easily add your own. Annie also adds a toolbox which allows your site visitors to or view just…
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In my previous post I showed how to include Tippy calls directly from your theme file where the shortcode is unavailable. In that example, all I wanted was a regular Tippy link so we were able to make use of the tippy_formatLink() function. But let’s take the example one step farther. What if I don’t…
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Tippy was created to work with WordPress shortcodes, but what do you do if you want to use Tippy directly within your theme file? Simple! You pay me $4.7 million and ask me to do it for you! Short of that, it is fairly simple to add Tippy calls directly to your WordPress theme file….
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Came across the E-Journal Barrelhouse tonight. It bills itself as “Fiction. Poetry. Pop flotsam. Cultural jetsam.” It is an online literary site to showcase the current musings of pop culture. Recently, they have featured a number of works of poetry, and one of those works included a bit of inline annotation via Tippy. Check it…
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Adding yet another plugin to my repertoire, I have created the Mensy plugin for WordPress. Unlike my other plugins, Mensy is not intended to be used within posts and pages (though it will work just fine there!) but will find most of its use in themes and layouts. Mensy makes it easy to create drop-down…
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Tippy has been written with WordPress in mind, but what if you want to use Tippy outside of WordPress – in a static HTML file, another CMS, or a custom project? In such situations, it will not be possible to use the Tippy short tags, but you can still use Tippy following the approach described…
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I’ve finally gotten around to updating the contents of my Enscriptured page. Head over there to learn more about my personal project that allows users to create highly customized Bible reading plans.

One question I get asked a lot is if it is possible to use Tippy directly on elements rather than through the Tippy short tag. The short answer is yes, it is possible, and here’s how. This is a regular div, but I’ve added onmouseover and onmouseout calls to the div. The Tippy function is…
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Introducing a brand new WordPress plugin: Glossy. The idea for Glossy came from some comments on the Tippy plugin. A few users asked about a way to create a tooltip that can be reused in multiple posts. By itself, Tippy cannot do this, so Glossy was born. With Glossy, you can create Glossy entries in…
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Just released the ESV Plugin version 3.7.1. This plugin adds some nifty new features and a few code enhancements. From the new features come two new options: The ability to choose which Bible website to use for Scripture links. Previously, Crossway’s generic Bible site was used by default. Now, the options are Crossway’s amazing ESV…
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