My Medicare Matters is a consumer education resource focused on helping individuals understand Medicare coverage options and enrollment. The project was a brief consulting engagement with Tamman Technologies to implement specific PHP-driven enhancements to an existing custom WordPress theme.
Two distinct features were developed as part of the engagement. The first was a search term highlighter on the search results page — when a visitor searched the site, their query terms were highlighted within the text of each search result, visually identifying where in the result content their search terms appeared. This kind of contextual highlighting helps users quickly determine which results are most relevant to their specific query.
The second feature was a site-wide glossary term highlighting system. Medicare involves a significant amount of specialized terminology — terms like deductibles, premiums, Medigap, Part D, and enrollment periods each have specific meanings that may not be familiar to consumers encountering them for the first time. The glossary system automatically detected these terms throughout the site's content and applied underline styling to indicate they were defined terms. Hovering over an underlined glossary term triggered a pop-over element displaying the term's definition inline, without requiring the user to navigate to a separate glossary page.
The glossary terms were managed through a custom WordPress post type, giving the content team a structured administrative interface for creating, editing, and maintaining the glossary without requiring code changes. Each glossary term could be updated or expanded through the WordPress admin, with the front-end highlighting logic automatically applying to all instances of that term across the site's content.
