5 Best Text Hover Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
Text Hover has 1,000+ active installs on WordPress.org. These 5 plugins share its category or its tags on WordPress.org, are actively maintained, and each has at least 100 active installs. They are ordered by how closely they match, not by our opinion.
The 5 closest alternatives to Text Hover
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Easy Footnotes
Closest match4.8 (33) 8,000+ active installsEasy Footnotes lets you quickly and easily add footnotes throughout your WordPress posts using a simple shortcode in the text editor.
Shares the tooltips tag on WordPress.org. About 8 times the installs, last updated 12 days ago.
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4.8 (54) 9,000+ active installsSite operators can create detailed, hierarchical documentation for the site's authors, editors, and contributors, viewable in the WordPress admin.
Shares the help tag on WordPress.org. About 9 times the installs, no update since April 20, 2024.
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4.8 (24) 200+ active installsStep-by-step tutorial guide, web or new feature intro tour created intuitively with the visual builder and detail configuration on the admin board
Shares the help tag on WordPress.org. About a quarter of the installs, last updated April 2, 2026.
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4.6 (30) 800+ active installsAdds an option to the admin posts and terms overview pages to select all items (instead of just the ones on the current page) to apply bulk actions.
Shares the terms tag on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, no update since June 2, 2017.
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4.9 (68) 2,000+ active installsSupercharge your custom post type archives by letting visitors filter posts by their terms/categories. This plugin handles the whole thing for you!
Shares the terms tag on WordPress.org. About 2 times the installs, last updated 18 days ago.
Switching from Text Hover: common questions
What is the best alternative to Text Hover?
Easy Footnotes is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 8,000+ active installs with a 4.8 out of 5 rating.
Which Text Hover alternative has the most users?
WP Help, with 9,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which Text Hover alternative is rated highest?
Beautiful taxonomy filters, rated 4.9 out of 5 by 68 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these Text Hover alternatives free?
Every plugin listed here is free to install from WordPress.org. Where WordPress.org marks a plugin as commercial, the developer also sells a paid version or add-ons, and that is shown on each plugin.
How are alternatives chosen?
Automatically, from WordPress.org data: plugins that share a category top 10 with Text Hover score highest, then plugins that appear in the same WordPress.org rankings, then plugins with the same tags, weighted so rare tags count more than common ones. Plugins by the same author and plugins rated under 4.0 are left out.
How we choose these alternatives
Nothing on this page is picked by hand. Every day we walk the whole WordPress.org directory, then score every plugin against Text Hover on three signals: sharing a category top 10 counts most, then appearing in the same WordPress.org rankings, then carrying the same tags, with rare tags counting for more than common ones like "wordpress". Plugins by the same author are excluded, so an author's own add-ons cannot fill the list, and so is anything rated below 4.0 or with fewer than 100 active installs. The ten highest scores are what you see, in that order. Full methodology.
The bottom line
Easy Footnotes is the closest match to Text Hover by the data we track, and WP Help has the widest reach with 9,000+ active installs. Easy Footnotes shipped the most recent release, on August 26, 2026. The list is rebuilt every day from WordPress.org, so a plugin that stops being maintained drops out on its own.
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