Footnotes not working on mobile or tablet

@alexlangs,

Probably the theme customizer is showing a preview, not the real page, but what are you using to preview a post on mobile? Perhaps the plugin referenced in this topic: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/mobile-post-preview/
Yet I suspect you are not, else you’d mentioned it.

You may preview the mobile version on desktop using Chrome > Developer Tools (Shift+Ctrl+I): click the device emulator switch, second icon in the top left corner.

To see your post on a real mobile and a real tablet, you’ll need to publish after adding the new URL in robots.txt:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /POST_URL_AFTER_ROOT

This will tell search engines to not index your new post with footnotes.

You may also wish to password protect your post, see https://www.wpbeginner.com/plugins/how-to-hide-a-post-from-home-page-in-wordpress/ for how to do that.

Please feel free to let us know if that helps or if we can try to assist you further.

Best regards.

• This reply was modified 4 years ago by pewgeuges.
• This reply was modified 4 years ago by pewgeuges. Reason: Add preview plugin topic https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/mobile-post-preview/

Thank you so much for your prompt and thorough reply. For preview I am simply using the preview provided by WordPress – or is it provided by my theme (Astra)? I checked my draft version on a mobile by logging into my site on my phone (hadn’t thought of that before). It worked fine. I have now published and all is working well. I had not understood that the editing preview might not give me the correct result.

Thank you a lot for your feedback, I’m so happy that it works, and only now I’ve tried out the preview feature by following your steps—seems it’s actually broken! Unless I click on “Preview in new tab”, I get no preview! While “Desktop” is checked, nothing happens. While “Tablet” or “Mobile” is checked in the Preview menu, the Block Editor narrows to a tablet or to a mobile while actually remaining in editing mode (I can delete the shortcodes and the footnote or write on). Probably to get a preview I need to click on “Preview in new tab”, and that makes really sense. Problem:?Whatever is checked—“Desktop”, “Tablet” or “Mobile”—I always get the desktop preview. But then, as mentioned, Chrome comes to play as it comes with a mobile view emulator. Best of course is what you did.

Apologies for confusing WordPress preview and theme customization preview. It’s not the theme;?post preview is provided by WordPress. I’m only helping out fix some bugs, not the plugin’s author (despite the label).