Rumperuu

Hi @happyches,

I’ve just tested the page you provided on two different mobile devices (one running an Android variant and the other running an old proprietary OS), and both rendered correctly. Could you please provide more details on the mobile device that you are using? In particular, the operating system + version as well as any browser extensions you are using (if any).

Correct, the footnotes refs will be untouched by the un- and re-installation of the Plugin.

Hi @drjkiel

Sorry for being unclear, the link to the code was just to highlight the description text for the ‘Combine Identical Footnotes’ setting, which reads (emphasis mine):

Even when footnotes are combined, footnote numbers keep incrementing. This avoids suboptimal referrer and backlink disambiguation using a secondary numbering system. The Ibid. notation and the op. cit. abbreviation followed by the current page number avoid repeating the footnote content. For changing sources, shortened citations may be used. Repeating full citations is also an opportunity to add details.

So there is no solution available at the moment, but we are working on updating the footnote parsing functionality and will hopefully be able to offer properly-numbered combined footnotes once that is finished (and you can track progress on the GitHub Issue).

No problem, glad to hear you’ve got it sorted!

@solu78 as a potential alternative temporary solution, the following may also be helpful — it seems to work on the coffee page you shared earlier, which I assume is still using the non-alternative tooltips setting?

.footnote_tooltip {
  width: 80%;
  left: 10% !important;
}

@media screen and (min-width: 768px) {
  .footnote_tooltip {
    width: 75%;
    left: 50% !important;
  }
}

This should ensure that the footnote tooltips a) do not get squished at the side of the page and b) are always visible, regardless of the display width. The first rule means that tooltips will take up 80% of the text width and display center-aligned on mobile devices, whilst the second rule means that on wider displays the footnotes will take up 75% of the text width and display right-aligned. You can change the width & left values to suit your preference.

It looks like I might have to wait until the new update — or perhaps I can hire a developer to custom-tweak this plugin?

footnotes is an all-volunteer project, but if you were interested in helping to fund development then we do have a donation link here. This would not guarantee feature request precedence, but it would enable us to focus more resources on getting the 3.0 update out the door asap!

Alternatively, if you wanted to fund a developer to specifically work on this feature, freelancer sites like Upwork and Fiverr may be helpful. footnotes is licensed under the GNU GPL 3.0, so there would be no obligation to share any work done back with us, but we would certainly appreciate it if you did! 😉

Hi @nootropixcom,

As @pewgeuges mentioned, the minimum supported version of PHP for this Plugin is 7.0 as of release 2.6.6.

In the next major release of the Plugin (3.0), we will be raising this minimum to PHP 7.4 (in line with the minimum requirements of WordPress itself). We are exploring ways of automatically downgrading the Plugin source to support older PHP versions, but anything below the WordPress minimum will not be officially tested or supported by us.

PHP 5.6 has been EOL since the end of 2018.

Thanks for the information, I’ve fixed the issue and pushed an urgent 2.7.3 release. Please let me know if that solves the problem for you.

Hi @zirafa,

There appears to have been an issue with the latest release, resulting in outdated stylesheets being bundled with the Plugin. I have reverted the stable tag to 2.7.0 until we can resolve this; if you are not prompted to downgrade automatically, please download the 2.7.0 zip from here and replace the contents of wp-content/plugins/footnotes/ with the contents of the archive.

• This reply was modified 4 years, 10 months ago by Rumperuu.