(Re)Location of footnotes

  • Hello Mark and Stefan,
    This is an excellent plug-in. Very impressed, and very happy with it. Thank you.
    I have one question.
    Is there a way I can manually reposition the plug-in? I am using the “at the end of the post” option, but there are other plug-ins injecting their content at the end of the post, and they are getting in there first. So the footnotes end up too far below the post content (below “Related posts” and (when applicable) below “EG-Series” output.
    I would like the footnotes to be the first thing under the post content, and these other things to come after that.
    Is this possible? Is there something I can modify to achieve this?
    Thank you,
    Jonathan

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  • Plugin Author Mark Cheret

    (@markcheret)

    Hi Jonathan,

    to be able to achieve this, we’d have to work in an option, that allows for the footnotes plugin output to be specifically queued after or before certain other plugins get to add their output. It is conceptually all planned but very hard to put into practice, since wordpress has their own interesting mechanisms on this. For now, I unfortunately have no practical solution for you, I guess. But we’ll eventually come back to this.

    Hi Mark,
    Thanks for taking the time to reply.
    I spent time fiddling around with trying to force the plug-ins to load according to my preference, to no avail. I also tried a plug-in that would allow me to control the order in which plug-ins load, but that also had no effect.
    It’s a pity WordPress provides no GUI or code-based method or means to control the order of plug-in output. I’ll see if I can find a feature suggestion page for putting it forward.

    Cheers… Jonathan

    Giving this further thought…
    Might it be possible to define a new widget area that goes at the bottom of the post body, and then assign the footnotes output widget to that area?
    I did try this, but the instructions I found on how to go about such a thing didn’t seem to be working out for me. Is this something you might be able to suggest an approach to?

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