[Plugin: NetBlog] Blogroll posts footnote links problem

The link problem of footnotes, when displaying several WordPress articles on one webpage, has been solved since version 1.5.3.

Previously, when you displayed several WP articles with Netblog footnotes on one webpage, footnotes incorrectly linked to footnotes in previous articles (i.e. to a different, wrong article). For example, consider two articles A and B. Article A has the footnotes a, b and c. In case that article B has the footnotes m, n, k and o, in Netblog prior to 1.5.3, m linked to a, n linked to b, k linked to c and o linked correctly to o. This incorrect behavior has been solved since Netblog 1.5.3: m -> m, n->n, k->k, o->o and so on.

Hopefully, this small explanation helps to clarify the problem and its solution.

Thank you for your quick response and for working on the bug so swiftly ?? I have upgraded the version to 1.5.3.

I removed the [nbprint=’true’] from the only article that contained it. No articles have footnotes now. Do I have to insert the nbprint shortcode into every article?

Also, I cannot switch the Footnotes Location setting to Inline for some reason. When I click save it reverts back to ‘bottom of page’.

Thanks for upgrading Netblog.

To begin with, the shortcode for footnotes is ‘nbnote’. As a result, the correct syntax for a footnote within your WP article is [nbnote]my footnote[/nbnote]. To print out your footnotes, use [nbnote print="true" ]. (I mention this because you wrote “[nbprint=’true’]”) More about footnotes in Netblog

As of version 1.5.3, there is not way to tell Netblog to automatically print your footnotes. Luckily, this feature will be most likely available in a future version.

Concerning the inline functionality of footnotes, the question is whether it makes sense to inline a footnote, because it is something like

“an explanatory or documenting note or comment at the bottom of a page, referring to a specific part of the text on the page.” (Dictionary.com)
“a minor or tangential comment[…]” (Dictionary.com)

The point is, if sentences, information etc. might interrupt the “flow” of your article’s content, you should put them in a footnote to be displayed somewhere else (at the page’s bottom for example).
For this reason, the setting ‘inline’ of a footnote’s location in Settings -> Netblog -> Footnotes has been disabled for the moment. (I am sorry for the inconvenience).

Why do you want to inline a footnote?

Thank you for your interest in Netblog and its development
Benjamin Sommer

Thanks for clarifying. I will enter the code into each article.

I noticed in the settings.php that there is an option to change the shortcode. I am wondering if changing the shortcode to <ref> or [ref] so that it more closely matches the Wikipedia citation reference tag would be something that should be done in core. Would it be possible to automatically replace the current [nbnote] shortcodes with the updated [ref] tags on sites that have been using Netblog previously?

Another idea that I have been given is to create a WordPress plugin that interfaces with Zotero online collections. It would be really great to pull a Zotero citation or resource directly in to any WordPress page or post. I will gladly collaborate and work to research this idea.

By default, Netblog uses [nbnote] instead of [ref] to prevent possible conflicts with other plugins which by themselves might already use them. To change this shortcode, go to config.php and change define( 'NETBLOG_FOOTNOTE_TAG', 'nbnote' ); to define( 'NETBLOG_FOOTNOTE_TAG', 'ref' );.
As a result, Netblog does not recognize [nbnote] anymore and all those tags with [nbnote]…[/nbnote] will be exposed to your public visitor. Therefore, I do not recommend to change shortcode names manually – please wait until Netblog features automatic update of shortcode names.

You mentioned Zotero online collection. From all I have seen it looks quite promising, e.g. browser integration, features and not to mention its API. Unless a big problem occurs, it will be implemented in Netblog Citation Manager, which is under development.