No footnotes showing after update

believerinsight,

That is very strange. Two questions:

1. Any idea why your references on that page start at the number 14 instead of 1? Did this just start happening with the new update? The counter was starting at 1 last time I saw your site, and I wonder if this is part of the problem with the invisible notes.

2. Try unchecking the box marked “Fade Effects” on the Side Matter options menu. (The options menu is on the Reading screen under Settings on your dashboard). Does this make your notes appear again?

Unchecking Fade Effects brought the sidebar back – Internet Explore is making the strange numbering in the sidebar, Firefox seems numbered correctly.

The webpage numbering – don’t understand why it appears this way. This was numbered correctly before the update.

from webpage:

Things starting to get out of control and Paul starts to relies what may happen to the Church of God [ref] Paul opens with the name Church of God to the Corinthians 1Cor 1:2 [/ref]. Paul is still trying to keep ahead of the mobs from Thessalonica. Paul now is being escorted to Athens he comes to Mars’ Hill and these Greeks are a people who seek wisdom. [ref] 1Cor 1:22 [/ref].

Thank you,

Dennis

believerinsight,

Still not sure what’s causing this. I can see now that the list of notes in the sidebar is doubled, suggesting that WP’s shortcode function is going through all those [ref] shortcodes twice.

I’m guessing this is because of conflicts with another plugin, though it may be a theme issue. Looks like there are a number of plugins active on your site — were any added or changed recently? (Try de-activating your other plugins one at a time and see if that fixes it.) Have you made any other changes to the site lately?

The 1.1 update to Side Matter did not affect the shortcode- or note-handling functions, so I don’t think this was caused by the new version. But to be sure, you can also try the following:

1. Deactivate and delete your current copy of SM 1.1 on the Plugins screen.
2. Download the previous version (1.0) from this link: https://downloads.www.ads-software.com/plugin/side-matter.1.0.zip
3. Unzip the file and place the new side-matter directory in /wp-content/plugins/. Now Side Matter 1.0 should appear on your Plugins screen.
4. Activate Side Matter 1.0. Ignore the prompt telling you to upgrade to 1.1. If the problem is still there under 1.0, it is unrelated to the Side Matter update.

Thank you for your time with this issue.
I have decided to deactivate the plugin and use Simple Footnotes – because there using the same shortcode.

Simple started with no problems and works well with the many plugins in use.

Again thank you,

Denny

FYI – the issue seems to have been resolved with the WordPress SEO 1.4.15 update.

Also, unrelated note: when encountering issues with displaying the side notes in a custom theme when first using the plugin, I altered the CSS to look like the below (beginning at line 184).

ul {
  list-style: none;
  list-style-position: inside;
}

Thanks for the information, gatecitysn. Glad to understand what was causing this error.