Blockquote, cite, and footnotes – best practices?

  • I am confused about best practices and code for citing and footnoting.

    In the W3Schools tutorial for HTML they show using code such as this for citing within a blockquote:

    <blockquote cite="https://www.examplewebsite.org/who/index.html"> Blah, Blah, Blah </blockquote>

    but when I try out that, I do not see where the cite information is shown to a reader.

    1. How important is it to put the cite in there?
    2. Does it help for SEO? Is it “read’ or indexed by spiders? (It likely is read by screenreaders.)
    3. If I am using footnotes in my posts, is there any good reason to also use the “cite”?

    Regarding footnotes (which I do use on my blog) the FD Footnote plugin is no longer being supported. That makes me leery of using another plugin.

    Is the easiest way to put in footnotes into a blog post to use Markdown?

    I found a few places that have the code for footnotes but that would be rather laborious to code all my footnotes as I am writing.

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