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https://wordpress.org/plugins/footnotes-made-easy/
https://github.com/sdobreff/footnotes-made-easy [ 1 ]

A plugin to let you insert text mid-sentence between ❨❨ and )), and have it displayed as hover-text and a link to the bottom of the page with the text.

Easy to use and really nice!

• 2023-12-29 – 2.2.0 on WordPress 6.4.2 with PHP 8.1.26
• 2023-11-28 – New ownership
• 2022-04-06 – Abandoned
• 2022-05-18 – 1.0.2 on WordPress 5.9.3 with PHP 8.1.5

• 2022-05-18 – Replaces Footnotes.

blog.spiralofhope.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=footnotes-options-page

Usage and troubleshooting ∞

Usage ∞

Use two ( and ) around your text. (See also Using two parenthesis in a BlogText code block.)

foo ❨❨ example )) bar

gives

foo [ 2 ] bar

Settings ∞

• Identifier: [   1,2,...10   ]
• Symbol: †
• Superscript: [_]
• Back-link: [  ↩  ]
• Header: <h1>Footnotes</h1><div style="font-size: initial;">
• Footer: </div>
• Pretty Tooltips: Uses jQuery UI to show pretty tooltips [_]
• Combine Notes: Combine identical footnotes [_]
• Priority: 11

• Suppress Footnotes

  • [x] On The Home Page
  • [_] When Displaying A Preview
  • [x] In Search Results
  • [x] In the feed (RSS, Atom, etc.)
  • [x] In Any Kind Of Archive
  • [x] In Category Archives
  • [x] in date-based archives
• Begin A Footnote ❨❨

• End A Footnote ))

Having whitespace around your back links ∞

Use the Unicode whitespace character NO-BREAK SPACE U+00A0 ( ) [ 3 ]

Using two parenthesis in a BlogText code block. ∞

Using the backtick to create two left parenthesis [ 4 ] within a code block (

Instead, use two Medium left parenthesis ornaments U+2768 / ❨ like so:

❨❨

Settings put in BlogText CSS ∞

(BlogText)

2024-04-09

/* For Footnotes Made Easy */
/* https://blog.spiralofhope.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=76254&action=edit&classic-editor */
ol.footnotes li {
  font-size: 100% !important;
  color:#666666;
}

2024-01-08

In an earlier version I put:

/* For Footnotes Made Easy */
/* https://blog.spiralofhope.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=76254&action=edit&classic-editor */
.footnote {
  font-size: 1em !important;
}

Their defaults are:

ol.footnotes { color:#666666; }
ol.footnotes li { font-size:80%; }

Alternatives ∞

Drop-in replacements for the ❨❨ code:

• https://wordpress.org/plugins/civil-footnotes/

  • 2022-05-18 – Tested and works, but the preview doesn’t play nice with BlogText syntax for a link contained within a footnote.

• https://wordpress.org/plugins/ajs-footnotes/

  • Likely abandoned.

• Footnotes

Others:

• search wordpress.org
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/modern-footnotes/

• https://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-footnotes/

Footnotes

1. was https://github.com/dartiss/footnotes-made-easy [ ↩ ]
2. example [ ↩ ]
3. Usually you can double click within ( ) to select it, then control-c to copy. [ ↩ ]
4. Bracket on Wikipedia [ ↩ ]