footnotes-reloaded

A maintained continuation of the footnotes WordPress plugin — the all-in-one solution for displaying an automatically-generated list of references on your Pages and Posts.

Status: maintenance fork. The original plugin was closed on WordPress.org in November 2022 at the author's request and has not been updated since. This fork carries it forward, focused on compatibility with current WordPress and PHP.

Requirements

Features

• Fully customizable footnote start and end shortcodes
• Styled hyperlink tooltips
• Responsive reference container with configurable position
• Reference container usable inside a widget
• A range of numbering styles
• Configurable optional backlink symbol
• Configurable footnote appearance
• Shortcode button in the post editor

Installation

From source:

git clone https://github.com/TahsinArafat/footnotes-reloaded.git

Then place the directory in wp-content/plugins/ and activate it.

Building a distributable zip: ./.dev/build.sh produces dist/footnotes-<version>.zip, containing only the files WordPress needs.

Development

Local WordPress (WordPress + MySQL + WP-CLI via Docker):

docker compose up -d          # start
./.dev/setup.sh               # install WP, activate plugin, seed fixtures
docker compose down           # stop
docker compose down -v        # stop and wipe the database

Site: http://localhost:8080 (admin / admin).

Tests and build:

./.dev/run-tests.sh           # PHPUnit
./.dev/build.sh               # produce dist/footnotes-<version>.zip

Verification

Fixes in this fork are verified with WitDiff, which transplants changed tests onto the pre-fix revision and confirms the tests fail there and pass on the fix. A test that passes on both revisions proves nothing, so each fix carries a receipt rather than an assurance.

Credits and licence

All credit for the original plugin belongs to Mark Cheret and the many contributors listed in README.txt.

Licensed under the GPLv3, which requires — and permits — this kind of continuation.