FD Footnotes Plugin doesn't work as it should

Thank you for replying to my questions, Lorro.

You’re right, there is nowhere in the plugin’s note a statement about cutting and pasting. I assumed that it was possible because someone in the reviews said the following:

“I pasted in a huge scientific reference, with multiple authors, lots of parentheses for dosages used in their study, and an abstract. At first, it choked, but then I realized it was my fault: I just pasted from the source.
The fix: I used the button to “paste as plain text” and voila! Only a number appeared, and the whole huge footnote is down there at the bottom. Very cool. I’m donating, you’ve made my life much easier!” Here is the link to this comment https://ww.wp.xz.cn/support/view/plugin-reviews/fd-footnotes?filter=4

I did as he recommended: on the webpage that I am editing I right clicked on the page I want to paste the text on and selected on the menu that appears “paste as plain text” (however, to have the option “paste as plain text” appearing on the menu, the editing page cannot be blank, it has to have some text in there). However, when I do that, the footnote disappear instead of being added as this person suggests. Any advice? Also, do you know what this person may mean by “I just pasted from the source?”

Yes, I think you are correct, the numbers in brackets are coming from word.

Also,

When I add footnotes manually, the brackets disappear and the superscript number appears when I do that on blog pages; however, not on webpages. On webpages the superscript number is at the line of the text, not above it (superscripts). Do you know why there is a difference between blog and webpages footnote?

Can you recommend a better footnote plugin for webpages and wordpress 4.31

I really appreciate your help

Thanks!

Yes, it’s true the reviewer doesn’t tell us where he pasted it from.

Thanks for suggesting the save as option. I tried to saving the document as: webpage, webpage filter, single file webpage, open document text. Unfortunatly non of them worked.

I tired to find the source code of my document with an online Word to HTML converter but it didn’t work. This is the tool http://www.html-cleaner.com/
I am not even sure I used it correctly.

Here is an example of 5 footnotes I just added manually on a normal webpage (not a blog post): http://newtranspersonalpsychotherapy.com/the-triple-transformation/

The first five footnotes (1-5) are added manually. The footnotes from 6-16 are added automatically through copy and paste from a word file. As you can notice the footnote number in the text of the footnote 1-5 footnotes looks like a regular number–it is not superscript. The other 6-16 are in square brackets. Also, you can notice that the actual 1-5 footnotes at the bottom of the page are in the footer of the page (left hand side, hard to find and hard to read), not in the body (but you can click them and expand them but of course they are hard to read because they are on the footer); whereas, the actual 6-16 footnotes are in the body of the page.

You can compare this webpage to this blog post:
http://newtranspersonalpsychotherapy.com/test-2/

Here you’ll see that the FD Footnotes plugin somewhat works as advertised if I insert footnotes manually. The first two footnotes are inserted manually, the 3-5 footnotes are copied from word and appear in square bracket. The good thing is that, here at least the actual footnotes at the bottom do not appear in the footer, but on the body of the blog page. However they are still not superscripted.

What does this mean: “Is the sup tag being added and styled properly”? I do not know what a sup tag is.

Thanks for suggesting other footnotes plugins but except for the FD Footnotes, the others are all for WordPress previous versions. I tried a 4.30 and it doesn’t work.