About list of notes on the end of page, an idea

  • Resolved arutha176

    (@arutha176)


    4 years ago

    Hello Sean!

    I see that the question of a list of all notes on the page is still hot. I looked at other plugins that have this feature and discovered there is a big problem with placement. Ideally the list should follow just after the text, before references, but it looks like there is no way to do it programmatically and in fact the list ends placed well after the content, sometimes after social media and in one instance after related posts.
    The solution I gave to it was simply do it the hard way, copying every note after the content, lol.
    But I got thinking…
    Would it be “doable” with a shortcode or something like it?

    By the way, did you get a solution for when the note has a link and the text is truncated? Didn’t have many new notes of the type and it escaped my notice till now.

    Best regards!!

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  • Plugin Author prismtechstudios

    (@prismtechstudios)

    @arutha176 thanks for this suggestion! I’m planning to make the list of footnotes available as a shortcode, although ideally it could get placed at the right location automatically. Do you have an example of a page where this issue is happening with other plugins? And, what theme is it using?

    I haven’t started that other truncated text issue we were talking about (let me know if the CSS workaround from https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/truncated-text-2/ isn’t doing the trick). The list of footnotes at the end of a post has been my priority!

    Thread Starter arutha176

    (@arutha176)

    Hi Sean!

    Glad you liked it. Yes, placing the list automatically would be ideal, but it seems quite difficult to achieve, considering the different ways each theme implements things. I don’t have a page as a example, because before I try any plugin I go to their support forum to see their main issues. I can tell you that the people of the easy footnotes is struggling right now with placement of the list after related posts, and the people of footnotes made easy have problems with placement in the footer and wrong alignment (list doesn’t get boxed). In both cases it doesn’t happens always, depends on the theme. On the other hand, one of the sites in my care uses the colormag theme, that puts author box after related posts, so I imagine it will do the same with a footnotes list.

    In my view, the advantage of shortcodes is that you can put it anywhere, and it is more or less independent of the way a theme organizes content. That is, if I understand it right, as I’m not a developer lol. Ah, and if you don’t want a list after the text, you simply don’t use the code!

    About truncated text, no hurry. The css is working beautifully and in most cases I’m being cautious too about link placement. Moreover, you didn’t get many complaints about it, so I agree the list is a priority!

    Good luck!

    Plugin Author prismtechstudios

    (@prismtechstudios)

    Thanks for these details @arutha176, they are quite helpful as always! You’re right that a shortcode is a good way to go in order to handle where to place the list.

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