SebastianHill
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Dear Tomas,
I think your day’s work is hardly wasted. The feature that you have created certainly has value. Both for the ‘reference’ purposes that you described, but also for other items, where people may not want to pre-define tooltips, but just want to make a one-off tooltip reference. Well done!That isn’t really an option for my purpose however. It would be a lot of work and a lot of text, because many of the references occur more than one time.
I understand what you say about a separate reference list (starting with [1], [2], ..) on each page. That is not what I intend. I will have only one single reference list, much like every scientific book or paper would have. However, even in the case of a separate list for each page, I would have appreciated to be able to do that by defining a separate tooltip category for each separate list. That way, each list could start with [1], [2], … as well. Also, one could then show only the list of tooltips that belong to that category.
So, what I am proposing would provide all those options with a lot less need for writing/coding for the user. Also, it makes it much easier to later update a specific reference. Again, the only additional feature that I was looking for is to be able to use [7] as a tooltip keyword.
I hope you understand what I am looking for. I am sure it would be of value for other as well. So, I hope you will be able to see if you can also realize that feature as well in your wonderful plug-in. 🙂
Thanks again. Have a wonderful day.
SebastianHi Tomas,
thanks for working on this.
However, either I don’t understand what you mean or it does not work yet.Whenever I enter in the text something like [tooltips_wiki_reference][7][/tooltips_wiki_reference] or like [ttsref][7][/ttsref] then:
– only [7] is shown, but no tooltip!
– also some pieces of your code become visible and the formatting of the complete page becomes corrupt. The code that is visible is always something like: ‘);When I enter [ttsref content='from wordpress.org'][1][/ttsref] in fact a tooltip is shown, and no corrupt coding is shown, but the link does not work. However, the main issue that I have is that I am not looking for a tooltip plugin that makes me enter all that, including the tooltip content and link every time I make a specific reference, such as [7].
What I am really looking for is a functionality that simply let’s me define a tooltip ones for [7] and then, automatically, every occurrence of [7] is made into a tooltip, just as your plugin allow to do for normal words.
I understand that you have some issues with shortcodes also using the square brackets [ ]. However, the tooltip functionality also does not work for round brackets ( ). Also, I would have hoped that other shortcode routines would still work. I mean: I would not simply not generate a tooltip for a shortcode that I include, that would not make sense.
I wonder if you see any further options to make this work.
Thanks again very much for your efforts.
Thanks very much, Tomas. I am looking forward to the solution you will come up with.
Very best, SebastianOh, one more thing. I am not sure if that makes any difference. But some people also use that [ ] reference in superscript, so at the top of a line.
Thanks very much for pocking this up, Tomas. I fully understand why you took it out (shortcodes). I remember that I also tried ( ) instead of [ ] and that also did not work.
I don’t thinks these would be called footnotes. The best word that comes to my mind is ‘reference’, as in ‘literature reference’.
Thanks again.
SebastianHi bdbrown,
many thanks for your reply.I need to try it out, but I think I understand what you mean.
I was kind off hoping that this would be really simple, with something of the form like: <?php the_primary_color(); ?>. Much like for instance <?php the_content(); ?>.
I guess that would have been too easy. Or is there someone who knows of a similar shortcut? 🙂
Thanks again!