Footnotes heading and footnotes placement

PS:

To answer my own question, in the meantime I could achieve it by simply commenting the add_filter('the_content' … 999); stuff and adding a new shortcode instead

add_shortcode( 'placenotes', array($this, 'easy_footnote_after_content') );

It seems to work fine now. It places the footnotes at the [placenotes] location and, as a side effect, the problem with the orphaned heading is also solved.

Thanks for having considered my proposals.

what are you using for your next and previous links?

ATM these are just divs with some associated CSS, entered via shortcode. That means, even with a priority of 20 for easyfootnotes, they will always be between the text body and easyfootnotes. But probably I could add these links also via content filter and custom priority – in the future (I’m just starting to learn WP/PHP…).

But there are other “complications” regarding the placement: I have some more standardized footer elements, a “Sources, Credits, More Info” and sometimes a “Changes” (change notes for scripts, apps). The best footnote position depends on the length of these elements and of the footnotes. For example if there are 30 lines of change notes and a single line of footnotes, it’s more appropriate to place the footnotes before the change notes, and viceversa (from a reading-pragmatic perspective; personal opinion).

That’s why I think that the described “[placenotes]”-type shortcode is the ideal solution to guarantee some flexibility. As already mentioned, this could be a completely “silent” option, that is, in absence of the shortcode the footnotes will be placed simply at the end. So, the “non-technical” user won’t get bothered by additional settings challenges.

[There are some other things that make it impossible (for me) to use the plugin right “out of the box”, without modifications. But since this is not directly related to the placement question I think I’ll better open another thread.]

Would be great if you could make the usage of the shortcode optional. As mentioned, in my hack it is obligatory. It would be better like this:

1. If the shortcode is present the footnotes will be placed there
2. If no shortcode is in the body the footnotes will be placed according to the priority set in line 43

This way we could work without shortcode for the bulk of normal pages, and place the shortcode only when necessary, for the more special pages.

By the way: Why not making the priority setting accessible via the GUI? As we’ve seen this already gives quite some flexibility if you have elements from other plugins in the bottom zone of the article (18 for the Share buttons, 20 for the Related Posts, …)

Thanks for the very nice plugin!

Tom

tried adding your code modification on the editing window of the file in question through the Bluehost file manager

I don’t know that file manager. Just launch your FTP client and go to the file in your site’s directory and edit it with a text editor (or with the integrated editor of your FTP client).
OR download the plugin from here (not via WP), edit the file on disk and then upload the Easy Footnote plugin folder (with the edited file) to your site via FTP, replacing the existing Easy Footnotes folder.

The exact location of the EF folder is wp-content/plugins/easy-footnotes

add_filter(‘the_content’, array($this, ‘easy_footnote_after_content’), 20);// add_shortcode( ‘placenotes’, array($this, ‘easy_footnote_after_content’) );

Is that correct?

No, you’ve commented (//) the wrong line. These lines should look like this:

// add_filter('the_content', array($this, 'easy_footnote_after_content'), 20);
add_shortcode( 'placenotes', array($this, 'easy_footnote_after_content') );

If you copy-paste the two lines from here it should work. (And, they are two lines, not one 😉

cause the bubble pop up is already sufficient for my needs

Not so nice for someone who saves the page as PDF, or prints it to paper 😉