WP-Footnotes 3.2: Release Notes
§This week saw the long awaited release of an update to the WP-Footnotes plugin for WordPress. WP-Footnotes is to easily add footnotes or sidenotes or a bibliograpy, etc. to any post using a simple mark-up which degrades (kind of) gracefully in the event that for some horrifying reason this plugin no longer works.
These notes actually cover releases 3.0, 3.1 and 3.2 which all happened in quick succession.
What's been fixed
- Some invalid mark up was being generated. Hopefully not anymore.
- The notorious 'a' bug (I really hope).
What's been improved
- Add two new styles of footnotes:
- Repeated symbol, and
- Leading zero decimal.
- Reorganisation to encapsulate fully in a class.
- Security. I've hopefully addressed all know security issues for the plugin1.
One further improvement is that you are now able to change the footnote style on an individual post basis by adding a custom field2 to your post. If you add a field with the key 'footnote_style' and one of the following as the value:
- decimal
- decimal-leading-zero
- lower-alpha
- upper-alpha
- lower-roman
- upper-roman
- symbol
What's been changed
I removed the 'smooth scroll' feature. If you want smooth scroll I suggest you add it to your theme. Instructions for doing so using jQuery (which is built into WP) are here.
Comments
For anyone else who found that upgrading to v3.2 didn't get rid of the "aa" problem, you might want to try updating the plugin's options. For me, opening the Footnotes settings page and then clicking "update" was enough to fix everything.
Thanks for a super useful plugin!
O agree with the above comment. Opening the Footnotes settings page and then clicking “update” repaired the “aa” problem.
The footnotes plug in is nice and didn't require to much template changing to work.
Is there any way to add smooth scrolling again as an option? I'm not going to lie -- I'm completely lost on that jQuery page.
Hi MK,
I don't plan on putting that functionality back into WP-Footnotes. I know some users will lament its loss, but it shouldn't really have been added in the first place. Smooth scroll doesn't belong in a simple footnotes plugin. I appreciate that adding it yourself might be a little much of an ask for non-technical users.
Subscribe to my feed or check back to this site in a little bit; I'll endeavour to write a post outlining the simple steps you need to take to add smooth scroll functionality to your site's theme.
Will do. Thanks for the reply. Great plugin, btw.
Hey Simon,
I'm having a little problem with the plugin. It doesn't seem to like my theme and will show footnotes on the front page even when I tell it not to. Works fine with my other blogs but this theme seems to give it trouble. Any suggestions?
Thanks.
Hi MK, Sorry I haven't yet responded to your comment. I'd assume you've either sorted it out or given up by now, but if not, I can't really help until you provide some more details. At the very least I'd need to know what theme you're using.
Excuse my englich, please ; I'm french ! How to change the color of the footnotes ? where in the css file ? thanks Gilles P.
Hi Gilles,
Something like this added to your CSS should do the trick:
ol.footnotes li.footnote { color: #ccc; }
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