I touched on this once before, hence the “revisited.” And here’s an update of sorts.

Plan A

Here’s a neat new plugin which, though apparently designed for providing dictionary definitions, can be used as a neat way to footnote all the non-English words in your blog posts. For anyone in the China blogosphere who enters any great amount of Chinese words in your text, this may be a cool method to list definitions at the end of your posts.

From Web tools Collection:

WP-Definitions is an easy way to bring clarity to your blog by adding double square brackets around any word like this: [[word]]. The definition of that word will then be included at the bottom of your post and the word itself will become a named anchor linking to the definition.

Plan B

If that plugin doesn’t meet your needs, you might try this one which (as I said) I previously wrote about:

How to Annotate Chinese Characters with Pinyin Tone Markers

Though I spoke of it in a China-specific context, it could be applied to any second language words - Japanese, Spanish, French, what have you… Or essentially any situation where you want to annotate a certain word or phrase. Just hover your mouse over the word, and you get your annotation pop-up.