Glossary with automatic term linking

About the Extension

Glossary builds an A–Z lexicon for your shop. Each active glossary entry gets its own page with the definition, an optional image and, by default, its synonyms, categories, related terms and related products. Three Shopping Experience elements bring the glossary onto your pages, and optional automatic linking turns glossary terms in Shopping Experience text elements and product descriptions into links.

Glossary term pages

Each term page shows the term as heading and the definition with rich text formatting, plus an image if you add one. Its SEO URL looks like /glossary/celadon.

• "Also known as" with the synonyms, on by default
• Categories as badges, on by default
• Related products and related terms, on by default
• View count, optional
• Link to your overview page in the breadcrumb and a "Back to the glossary" link, once you select the overview page in the plugin configuration
• Layouts: Wide (centered, max. 900px, preset), With sidebar or Full width
• Color styles: Theme colors (preset), Dark style or Default (teal)
• schema.org markup as DefinedTerm

Glossary A–Z overview

The "Glossary A–Z" element lists your terms by first letter; the letter navigation takes you straight to each group. You build the glossary overview page yourself with Shopping Experiences, on a category (needed for the breadcrumb and back link) or on a landing page.

• Search field, on by default: the listed terms are filtered as you type
• "Search" searches the glossary on the server and also considers synonyms and short definitions
• 2, 3 or 4 columns, 3 by default
• Optional filter to one glossary category
• Sort letter per entry, anything outside A–Z under "#"
• Up to 1,000 terms in the index and up to 100 search results

Glossary term of the day and latest terms

Two more elements put glossary terms on any Shopping Experience layout, each with its own color style.

• "Glossary term": a fixed term or a term of the day that changes daily
• For "Glossary term": image and definition teaser, on by default, plus a "Read more" link
• "Glossary latest": the newest terms as cards, 6 by default (up to 50)
• Optional filter to one glossary category for the latest terms

Automatic glossary linking

When you switch it on, glossary terms in Shopping Experience text elements and product descriptions become links to their term page. It is off by default.

• Short definition as tooltip, on by default
• Synonyms are linked too, by default
• Only the first occurrence per term and up to 100 links per page, both by default
• Whole words only, longer terms take priority
• Minimum term length 3 by default; case-sensitive matching and opening in a new tab optional
• Exclude areas with the class no-glossary, or whole pages by their route name
• Headings h1–h3, links, buttons and code stay untouched, and a term is not linked on its own page
• Twig filter glossary_autolink for your own templates

Glossary SEO and languages

Each glossary entry has its own slug, meta title and meta description per language.

• Slug from the term, German umlauts converted (ä → ae), duplicate slugs detected
• URL prefix per glossary entry and language, "glossary" if empty
• Without a meta title the term is used, without a meta description the short definition
• Canonical URL and sitemap entries for active terms
• SEO URLs update when you save, plus a CLI command to regenerate them
• Store API route for headless frontends

Manage your glossary in the Administration

Under Content > Glossary, a dashboard shows entries, active entries, categories, views in total, the most viewed terms, terms per letter and counters for entries that need attention.

• Entry list with search and filters for category and status
• Glossary categories with name, position, sales channel and active switch
• Related terms are linked in both directions automatically
• Entries and categories for one sales channel or all of them
• Views are counted once per visitor session and processed in the background
• Glossary entries and categories selectable in Import/Export profiles
• Own media folder "Glossary Media" and built-in documentation