Title: Duplicate Footnotes
Last modified: September 17, 2021

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# Duplicate Footnotes

 *  [1concordia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/1concordia/)
 * (@1concordia)
 * [4 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplicate-footnotes/)
 * I see in the forum that other users have seen the same issue that I’m seeing,
   which is duplication of footnotes: “Duplicate Footnotes When Using Elementor”.
 * I also see that the issue is “resolved” with the stance that “May be something
   that uses the apply_filters(‘the_content’, $content) function in the theme or
   plugin causing it”.
 * However, I’ve seen from other forums that WP doesn’t guarantee that content is
   only one once. Therefore, it seems like this issue IS a bug in the plugin. What
   steps need to be taken to fix this issue? I can help if needed.
 * Example: “There is no expectation in WordPress whatsoever that content will only
   be accessed once.”
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fduplicate-footnotes%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Thread Starter [1concordia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/1concordia/)
 * (@1concordia)
 * [4 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplicate-footnotes/#post-14903328)
 * I’m going to suggest to the author that the following manual reset short code
   is added to the plug-in. When testing with my website, it fixes the problem without
   any side effects.
 * Then it doesn’t matter what the Theme does, it always works. For reference, I’m
   using the ‘color newsmagazine’ theme.
 *     ```
       add_shortcode( 'efn_reset', array( $this, 'short_code_reset' ) );
   
       /**
        * Manually reset foot notes and counter
        */
       public function short_code_reset() {
       	$this->footnoteCount = 0;
       	$this->footnotes = array();
       	return "";
       }
       ```
   
 *  [austinwdunn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/austinwdunn/)
 * (@austinwdunn)
 * [4 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplicate-footnotes/#post-15010054)
 * How do you add this code? Is the code Java Script or CSS? Is the code just copy
   and pasted into the page?
 *  Thread Starter [1concordia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/1concordia/)
 * (@1concordia)
 * [4 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplicate-footnotes/#post-15016712)
 * I’ve forked the project and there is a pending pull request. My fork in on github:
 * [https://github.com/ericraider33/easy-footnotes](https://github.com/ericraider33/easy-footnotes)
 * My updated code is here:
    [https://github.com/ericraider33/easy-footnotes/blob/master/easy-footnotes.php](https://github.com/ericraider33/easy-footnotes/blob/master/easy-footnotes.php)
 * Until they update the plug-in, you can copy that PHP over the original easy-footnotes.
   php file in your content directory.
 * Use on the beginning of your page with the short code: [efn_reset][/efn_reset]

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 * 3 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [1concordia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/1concordia/)
 * Last activity: [4 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplicate-footnotes/#post-15016712)
 * Status: not resolved