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Better Footnotes

Description

Better Footnotes is a robust and flexible solution that provides your article’s readers with a fast reference and links to additional information.

Better Footnotes lets you add footnotes on articles easily and effortlessly using the visual editor or WordPress shortcodes. It’s easy to use, customizable, and compatible with any WordPress theme.

Main Features

  • Robust & flexible implementation.
  • Visual editor buttons to add foonotes.
  • Simple shortcodes to add or list footnotes.
  • Animated footnotes scrolling effect, which can be disabled.

Usage

Inserting a Footnote

In order to insert a footnote, you can simply use the [footnote] shortcode as the following example:

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Praesent ex lacus, iaculis eget leo ac, tempus vestibulum mi. Curabitur dictum varius pharetra. Sed lobortis sem ac efficitur efficitur. [footnote]Your footnote here[/footnote]

Shortcode Parameters
type Determines the type of the reference. Options: numeric / non-numeric.

Listing Footnotes

You can display the footnotes by using the shortcode footnotes as the following example:

[footnotes]

Shortcode Parameters
title Determines the title for the footnotes list.
title_tag Title tag name. Default is h3.

An active demo is available on Arageek articles.

Contributing

Developers can contribute to the source code on the Github Repository.

Screenshots

Installation

  1. Upload and install the plugin
  2. Use the plugin shortcodes.

Reviews

Sseeboaseka 13, 2020
I’ve tried all of the footnotes plugins and this one works best, it’s simple yet smart enough to overcome what other plugins can’t (like reordering the numbers of the footnotes when changing text). The support was also really helpful and quick to answer. Thank you
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Contributors & Developers

“Better Footnotes” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

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Changelog

1.3

  • Add “Auto Append” setting.

1.2

  • Add TinyMCE footnote button.
  • Add “BetterFootnotes\footnoteContent” filter.

1.1.1

  • Hide footnotes section by default, and show it only when footnotes exist.
  • Sanitize ‘title_tag’ and ‘container’ parameters in [footnotes] shortcode.
  • Add ‘post_id’ parameter to [footnotes] shortcode.

1.1.0

  • Switch to a client-side engine to render the footnotes.

1.0

  • The Initial version.