Title: Intercept Multi-Markdown Footnote
Last modified: November 1, 2025

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# Intercept Multi-Markdown Footnote

 *  [raytoler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/raytoler/)
 * (@raytoler)
 * [7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/intercept-multi-markdown-footnote/)
 * First, Sean, thanks for this plugin. I often write with a lot of parenthetical
   statements, so your plug has made my articles much more readable. 🙂
 * Recently, I switched from writing my drafts as formatted text in Scrivener to
   writing multi-markdown in iA Writer. After finishing writing, I use that program’s“
   copy formatted” function and paste into the Gutenberg editor. I’m not sure exactly
   how footnotes (e.g., `[^this is a markdown footnote]` ) are translated in the
   copy operation, but they are successfully being grabbed by the Gutenberg footnote
   function.
 * I would rather they be grabbed by Modern Footnotes instead. Is this possible (
   and/or not a Bad Idea™)?
 * Note that the plugin does correctly recognize the [mfn][/mfn] shortcodes if I
   have that in my copied text, so there’s already a way to make it work, but it
   would be much faster/stay-in-the-moment for writing (as well as a key-command
   shortcut to instantiate) if I could use the built-in MMD footnote.
 * Again, thank you for the plugin!

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