Footnote in Title

Hello @alienative

Thanks for the support topic, may you please verify that the checkbox next to post_title under the Scope and priority settings tab is checked? It is unchecked by default because supporting the footnotes in the post title is not debugged yet, it requires filtering the other usages of the title in menus and elsewhere, currently adding footnotes in post titles messes up these uses. The plugin hooks an action onto the the_title action, but doesn’t care about the rest.

We had a support topic about footnotes in titles, and it was solved by checking the the_title hook, but I was overwhelmed with other bugfixes, and sadly this one remained in the todo list when leaving the project 2?months ago (after joining in to help fix bugs 7??months ago). One solution I thought at was setting the footnote in an extra shortcode at post start, and getting the plugin to parse the footnote therein then append the referrer and tooltip to the post title (using the the_post hook). This would bring the limitation of being able to add footnotes only at the end of the title, not in the title.

I think footnotes in titles the legacy way requires much research on where the title is used by WordPress, by plugins, and trying to hook a footnote deletion action on all these actions performed on the title.

I’d also like to draw your attention on another problem with footnotes in titles: If typeset as usual, the referrer would stand out and not look good. The solution would be to reduce its font size; I think that I’ve seen this, or the title was not in big type; anyway this would require an extra setting.

For the time being I will hand this topic over to the current Footnotes team. Thank you for your understanding, sorry, and best regards.

• This reply was modified 3 years, 5 months ago by pewgeuges. Reason: add parenthetical
• This reply was modified 3 years, 5 months ago by pewgeuges. Reason: research *on*