Feature #8116
closedPlugin request: Easy Footnotes
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Description
The current footnotes plugin on the Commons, FD Footnotes, is no longer being maintained (as of about a year ago, i.e. May 2016: https://wordpress.org/plugins/fd-footnotes/ ).
I'd like to request an alternative be installed on the Commons: [Easy Footnotes](https://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-footnotes/), which seems easy to insert (the format is [note]%reference%[/note] ), easy to target with CSS, and by default uses a jQuery plugin (Qtip 2) to show the footnote text when hovering the cursor over the footnote number. It's in a stable release, tested up through WordPress 4.7.4, and seems to get rapid responses from users with questions. I don't know how it behaves if the JQuery isn't present, whether it's really built in or not.
I'm also open to other footnote plugins, if the Commons Team has had good experiences with one in particular. But this one seemed promising.
Thanks in advance,
Ben
Updated by Boone Gorges over 7 years ago
- Target version set to 1.10.19
Thanks for letting us know about this, Ben.
Easy Footnotes seems fine to me. The [note]footnote[/note] syntax feels more natural to me than the arbitrary-number-in-brackets of FD Footnotes. Does anyone else have an opinion?
If we go ahead with Easy Footnotes, I'll disable fd-footnotes from being activated, but will leave it in place for backward compatibility.
Updated by Boone Gorges over 7 years ago
- Target version changed from 1.10.19 to 1.11.1
Bumping this forward a release to give time for feedback.
Updated by Boone Gorges over 7 years ago
- Status changed from New to Resolved
easy-footnotes installed in https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cac/commit/bbc35a1813cc5459768743721cc2b1ae0f6bef64
fd-footnotes hidden from Dashboard > Plugins (when not yet activated) in https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cac/commit/907286b49ba0bc80767d9ac723a5c8e5f784e4f0
Thanks for the recommendation, Ben!