Deactivate the collapsing functionality

@saskiawater

The setting to remove the [+] is missing. But you may customize the template instead, and then store it outside the plugin (in another plugin or in the active theme). The customized template stack, that Footnotes owes to @misfist, was described in the plugin folder. Since that file has been removed from distribution two weeks ago, an easy way to access the information is now online at https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/footnotes/trunk/customized-template-stack.txt?rev=2498648

E.g. you would add wp-content/plugins/footnotes-custom/templates/public/reference-container.html and delete the following code:

<span
				role="button"
				tabindex="0"
				class="footnote_reference_container_collapse_button"
				style="[[button-style]]"
				onclick="footnote_expand_collapse_reference_container_post_id_container_id();"
			>[<a
				id="footnote_reference_container_collapse_button_post_id_container_id"
			>+</a
			>]</span
			>

I’m sorry for not being more helpful.

@saskiawater

I’m sorry for the bug. I must confess that I hadn’t tested it in a child theme, although I should have, but it works in a plugin folder, if the path is wp-content/plugins/footnotes-custom/templates/public/reference-container.html.

On your feedback I quickly caught up on testing and was baffled that it only works in a plugin folder. I can’t figure out why it doesn’t work in a child theme—that I swiftly got generated to store the custom template at wp-content/themes/gpchild/templates/footnotes/public/reference-container.html.
I don’t understand the origin of this bug even after looking (once more) into wp-content/plugins/footnotes/class/template.php.

But fortunately your changes won’t get overwritten if the custom template is stored in wp-content/plugins/footnotes-custom/templates/public/reference-container.html.

The container collapsing on clicking its heading even if it’s expanded by default is only since v2.5.1, 15 weeks ago, when noticing that a custom template without the button was used in collapsed-by-default mode and I was unable to revert the expansion.

As you report that hiding the button is ineffective when the label is used elsewhere, I now see that when adding the h2..h6 options for the label element (that initially was paragraph level only), I should have added also a dedicated template for the expanded-by-default mode.

My apologies for missing out on so many fixes.

Edit: Glad to see that you already found the solution.

• This reply was modified 2 years, 11 months ago by pewgeuges.
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