Title: Footnotes Plugin Not Working Properly
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Footnotes Plugin Not Working Properly

 *  [vsabio](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vsabio/)
 * (@vsabio)
 * [17 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/footnotes-plugin-not-working-properly/)
 * I installed and activated the Footnotes (v3.3) plugin, but it doesn’t seem to
   be functioning as advertised. Given the number of people who appear to be using
   it quite successfully, the good money is on operator error. Any idea what could
   be wrong? I tried restarting Apache, in case that might help; didn’t make a difference.
   The footnotes implementation is sufficiently simple that I’m pretty confident
   I’m formatting them correctly.
 * Any ideas?
 * Muchas gracias….
 * – Vince

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 *  Thread Starter [vsabio](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vsabio/)
 * (@vsabio)
 * [17 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/footnotes-plugin-not-working-properly/#post-848896)
 * whoami said:
 * _what footnotes plugin, how about a link? and why would you restart apache?_
 * I dont mean to be rude but that really suggests you havent got a clue what you
   are doing 🙂 Please dont be offended, I said that with a smile, and I really 
   am smiling.
 * The footnote plugin is this one:
 * [http://elvery.net/drzax/more-things/wordpress-footnotes-plugin/](http://elvery.net/drzax/more-things/wordpress-footnotes-plugin/)
 * Restart apache … seemed like a good idea at the time. 🙂
 * No offense taken — your observation is correct, I don’t know what I’m doing. 
   Please feel free to apply clue liberally.
 * – V
 *  Thread Starter [vsabio](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vsabio/)
 * (@vsabio)
 * [17 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/footnotes-plugin-not-working-properly/#post-848917)
 * Okay, I finally figured this out. There seems to be a bug if the footnote has
   a colon on it; this also adversely affects URLs.
 *  [whooami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whooami/)
 * (@whooami)
 * [17 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/footnotes-plugin-not-working-properly/#post-848918)
 * ohh Im glad — 🙂 I completely spaced on coming back to this or rather that other
   thread. I’m so sorry, it wasnt on purpose.

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 * Last activity: [17 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/footnotes-plugin-not-working-properly/#post-848918)
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