Gutenberg block

@earl_d,

Thanks for the topic. To insert the Footnotes reference container like a block in Gutenberg, please insert a shortcode block with this shortcode or whatever you may wish to configure in its stead:

[‌[references]‌]

The project is still struggling with fixing bugs and getting the codebase and the workflow right. It’s fixed, but I’m afraid adding a dedicated block to the Gutenberg block library won’t make it into a release anytime soon.

Just use a shortcode block, and even {[]} inside would do it if that’s configured to be the reference container shortcode. Yet easier: Using a shortcode block—as opposed to just typing the shortcode in a paragraph—is not required as it only works around the empty paragraphs before and after, and these can be mitigated by setting appropriate (negative) margins above and below the reference container.

We’d love to learn if this solution works out worse, equally or better than a Gutenberg block for the footnotes list.

Thank you!

• This reply was modified 5 years, 2 months ago by pewgeuges.

@earl_d,

Just found an email alert reporting that you responded more than two hours ago in this thread, but your post is missing. What happened?

As you may have edited your post during the one hour delay granted by the Forum engine, I’m not entitled to quote your initial post received by email.

To create a footnote using the [fn] start shortcode and the [/fn] end shortcode, the initial process involves four steps:

1. Open Footnotes’ settings dashboard and make sure these shortcodes are selected under the “General settings” tab in the “Footnote start and end short codes” metabox. Else, select [fn] (its closing sibling will be set automatically), and click the “Save Changes” button near the bottom.
2. In the blog post you are writing, type [fn] immediately after the word or the punctuation mark where the footnote referrer shall appear.
3. Write the text of the footnote.
4. After the end of the footnote, type [/fn].

In the presence of at least one footnote in a post or page, a reference container will be created and appended automatically at the end of the post or page content. A third shortcode, for the reference container position, is needed only if the reference container shall appear in the post before the end, e.g. when you provide a list of links or a bibliography to be displayed after the reference container instead of before. That shortcode is the only one out of these three that you may wish to type in a shortcode block, but that only removes some extra spacing above and below the reference container.

Be sure to keep in touch should that not work for you, and feel free to post any feedback, we’d be happy to help and learn how you think about using Footnotes.

• This reply was modified 5 years, 2 months ago by pewgeuges.

@earl_d,

No problem. Thanks for your feedback! Happy that you solved this issue.