Hello. Your plugin is exactly I need.

Only a hint: in 'admin_panel.php' file, change 'PHP_SELF' to 'SCRIPT_URI' in the _SERVER var you use to create the form target. It allows your plugin to work fine also with Wordpress MU.

Nice work! Bye bye,

Nemo.

Thanks for the tip, Nemo. I'll add it to the bug fixes for next release.

Simon,

Your plugin is absolutely fantastic, i used the latest version.

I have looked in the options page (options->footnotes), but i can't get an option to chunk/shorten urls in footnote so that they won't break my blog layout :( So, can you add it to the next release? or give me a tip, i'll edit it manually !

This plugin has been invaluable. For some reason, though, I can no longer get it to do a two-paragraph note as it once did. Have you any suggestions? (No, doesn't work either. The double-paren'd passage simply sits up there with the rest of the text.)

Thank you!

Well, I was wrong. The new version does observe doubled <br />s. Still, if there's a more "canonical" way to do it, I'd like to hear.

Simon, What an excellent plugin. Still I think there is a bug with IE and the smooth scroll. It makes the page jump up and down which is very confusing. Have a look: http://test.aenaon.info/blog23/2007/09/28/iposimiosis/ I use wordpress 2.3 Please let me know when you see into it.

Sorry, one more thing I noticed is that in IE the ↩ does not display while it does with firefox. Thanx again

I installed the plugin and I had a problem.

I usually write paginated posts and when I insert for example, the numbers show up correctly in the text (9, 10, 11, 12...) but at the bottom of the page, the footnotes' numbers are 9, 0, 1, 2...

I'd like the numbers to be 9, 10, 11, 12... maybe you could help me. And when I disable the pagination, the footnotes show up correctly again.

Hi Sephi,

Can you show me an example on your website? That error sounds very strange indeed.

Simon.

Sure, here's the page :

http://cer1se.free.fr/principia/index.php/les-paradoxes-de-zenon/5/

Hi again Sephi,

The problem is with your layout, rather than with the plugin.

There isn't enough left margin on the footnotes list so the first digit in two digit numbers get cut off.

If you add margin-left: 30px !important; to the ol.footnotes stylesheet directive in the footnotes options it will fix your problem.

S.

Thanks to your advice, my problem is now solved ! :)

The "two links to the same footnote" thing doesn't work in your example. It makes two separate footnotes (7 and 8) with the same text.

Looking at it with Netscape 9/ OS X (essentially Firefox 2)

Hi Stephen,

You're quite right. It's a bad example. The last update included a new option to keep identical footnotes separate and I have that turned on. You can keep it turned off on your install for the described behaviour.

Hey Simon thanks for the great plugin. I am having the same problem Sephi was having with the footnotes list not displaying the number. I tried adding the margin-left code to my CSS options in the footnote options section in my admin page but it's still not working properly. Any advice?

My site is located here: http://www.sportech.info

Sorry to jump the gun. I placed the code in teh wrong spot. It's working now!

Great, great Plugin. How can I increase the (default) space between footnotes without adding a paragraph or break tag at the end of each? I've tried margin-top and padding-top but the space between notes just defaults to the line height.

Hi Roy,

I suspect you have just added the CSS declarations incorrectly. You certainly should be able to modify the space between each note by changing the padding or margins of the LI elements.

You were right. It works now.

Hi, love this plugin, but cannot seem to adjust options. Anything other than resetting to default results in 'a' being placed in every option text box. Nothing I put in manages to persist. Any ideas?

Someone else had this problem -- http://wordpress.org/support/topic/130103

Thanks, Byron

Hi Byron,

As you mentioned, this is a known issue which I haven't been able to track down yet. Some people have been able to fix the issue by turning off the 'smooth scroll' option. Give that a go, otherwise stay tuned for an update (but probably not until the new year).

Brilliantly handy plugin thanks very much for giving this to us! I tend to use a lot of reference material so this will be very useful for me and hopefully make my posts a little richer as well. I only installed it today so I look forward to using it properly over the coming days and weeks. Cheers :)

Hey. This plugin is great! Thanks so much. Maybe you should see with the futureofthebook institute/commentpress http://www.futureofthebook.org/commentpress/ if you can make the plugin run together with their template. Looks like the perfect couple (but doesn't work together, so far).

Something like a fix for that pesky "a" problem

I did the following and now have a stable (that is no "a"s magically show up) wp-footnotes running on my site. Hope this helps:

1) Deactivate 2) delete wp-footnotes folder from wp_contents/plugins 3) [using php myadmin] delete swas_footnote_options from the SQL DB 4) reload wp-footnotes into plugins folder 5) activate

So based on the above what I think is happening is that swas_footnote_options is not getting refreshed properly after a "return to defaults" command from the footnotes options page nor does it get rebuilt when the plugin is deactivated then reactivated.

Hi, I'm sorry if I missed anything but does this plugin utilize the jQuery framework/library? Thanks! It seems promising and I appreciate all the work done.

Hi PA, No it doesn't use jQuery.

Simon -- This is a great plugin, but I'm doing something wrong. I think. I followed the install instructions, no problems. I had the options the way I wanted them, and the first test went beautifully, perfect footnotes. I decided to turn the smooth scrolling off (long story why), which I did -- and now the options are completely messed up. They look okay on the options screen, but in the post everything shows up as the letter 'a' -- footnote numbers, everything.

The options page shows no 'a's in any of the boxes, let me repeat. I tried turning scrolling back on, no luck.

Any suggestions? And many thanks.

Hi Rosina,

The 'a' problem has been a problem for a while and I'm still not sure what causes it. But it seems to have some relationship to the smooth scroll. Your symptoms seem to be a little different to others, so thanks for providing that info.

Have you tried clicking the "Reset Options to Defaults" button? If you haven't could you do that and let me know if that solves the problem.

I did try to change back to the default values, without success.

So I uninstalled it, made sure it was deleted from the server, and then reinstalled. This time when I went into the options page the only thing I changed was to unclick the smooth scroll -- and now it's working perfectly. It's a great plugin. I was surprised and pleased to see that it even manages to parse the 'more' command, splitting the footnotes so that the show up in the right spot.

So thanks! I'll leave something for you in your paypal tip jar.

Sent you a blog-mail message recently...Wanted to make you aware of this:

WP-Footnotes WordPress Plugin Multiple Remote Vulnerabilities WP-Footnotes Plugin for WordPress is prone to multiple cross-site scripting vulnerabilities because the application fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input. The plugin also insecurely exposes administrative functionality. An attacker may leverage these issues to execute arbitrary script code in the browser of an unsuspecting user in the context of the affected site. This may help the attacker steal cookie-based authentication credentials and launch other attacks. This issue affects WP-Footnotes Plugin 2.2; other versions may also be vulnerable.

Source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27572/discuss

Was not able to submit this via Mantis because I have yet to receive my signup verification email from the system.

Many thanks Rosina. I'm glad it has been sorted out.

Any update on the WP-Footnotes security issue ?

I have disabled this plugin but I'm missing its functionality :(

@0xCAFE: the security issue seems to arrise only if you have register_globals turned on. Which you most likely don't have or probably shouldn't have anyways.

I was contemplating on writing a plug-in for my blog to use footnotes. Good thing I decided to do a search for something before starting. You're plug-in does exactly what I wanted. Thank you!

For those concerned with the security issue -- open footnotes.php, cut line 199. Open admin_panel.php, paste at line 20. Save both files. That's it.

Daniel, I can find/cut the line from footnotes.php using Wordpress' web interface, but I can't find admin_panel.php (to paste at line 20).

Help. I'm using 2.3.1