Title: [Plugin: jQuery Hover Footnotes] Doesn't work for me Last modified: August 20, 2016 --- # [Plugin: jQuery Hover Footnotes] Doesn't work for me * [digigirl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/digigirl/) * (@digigirl) * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-jquery-hover-footnotes-doesnt-work-for-me/) * You have conflicting instructions on your website and this one – on yours you say to use single brackets, on this one, double. * Either way, it doesn’t work for me. At one point, I got the hover box to come up, but it displayed the entire page instead of just the footnote info. Other times I couldn’t get it to work at all. * Nor did it display the number in superscript. * Really wish it worked. Maybe it’s a conflict with my theme, but whatever, I’m sad that I couldn’t get it to go. * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/jquery-hover-footnotes/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/jquery-hover-footnotes/) Viewing 10 replies - 1 through 10 (of 10 total) * [vistratess](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vistratess/) * (@vistratess) * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-jquery-hover-footnotes-doesnt-work-for-me/#post-2515988) * Did you ever get this work? It worked on my site but then it distorted my post and repeated some of the posting at the end of the page when I simply by adding the curly brackets. * Thread Starter [digigirl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/digigirl/) * (@digigirl) * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-jquery-hover-footnotes-doesnt-work-for-me/#post-2515989) * Nope. I ended up using a different plugin. * [vistratess](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vistratess/) * (@vistratess) * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-jquery-hover-footnotes-doesnt-work-for-me/#post-2515990) * Which one did you end up using? I liked the hover feature of jquery ummm if it really worked. * Thread Starter [digigirl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/digigirl/) * (@digigirl) * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-jquery-hover-footnotes-doesnt-work-for-me/#post-2515991) * I went with [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/footnotes-for-wordpress/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/footnotes-for-wordpress/), which does have a sort of similar action, but not as slick. * You can see it in action here: [http://sirguillaume.com/real-knights-real-chivalry-or-if-they-were-so-genteel-how-come-they-had-swords/](http://sirguillaume.com/real-knights-real-chivalry-or-if-they-were-so-genteel-how-come-they-had-swords/)( the footnotes numbers are a little hard to see, I need to work on some CSS to make it stand out more.) * I don’t love the big, obvious footnote boxes at the bottom of the page, but I’m sure that can be corrected with some CSS. I’ll get to it eventually. * Good luck! * [javajoint](https://wordpress.org/support/users/javajoint/) * (@javajoint) * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-jquery-hover-footnotes-doesnt-work-for-me/#post-2516063) * Does it seem likely that this plugin will be updated to work with WordPress 3.3.1? * [zondar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zondar/) * (@zondar) * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-jquery-hover-footnotes-doesnt-work-for-me/#post-2516064) * All I wanted on a clients job was some unintrustive ‘explanation’ prompts – footnotes not needed below. * Having plodded through 7 other pretty arcane or defective tooltip plugins, found this **elegant little gem**. Brilliant work Lance, will send a small thank you on PayPal. * Dead easy to set up – and option to suppress the comments below article is really useful; I find the ‘not working’ comments on here baffling. * [@digigirl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/digigirl/), Did you use double curly brackets where you want the reference superscript to appear in the main test (after your keyed word) like this example * > Download the checklist {{1}} here: * and the text you want to pop up , encased in double square brackets like this * > [1](http://codex.wordpress.org/1)Small download – only 100KB[[1]} * ?? * [@javajoint](https://wordpress.org/support/users/javajoint/), I’m using 3.3.1,( with far too many plugins) and it all worked first time. * [zondar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zondar/) * (@zondar) * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-jquery-hover-footnotes-doesnt-work-for-me/#post-2516065) * Jeez, it looked OK in the editor before posting . .WTH ?*@! * S/be: * ” … and the text you want to pop up , encased in double square brackets like this: * ** [1](http://codex.wordpress.org/1)Small download – only 100KB[1](http://codex.wordpress.org/1)**“ * One other possible cause of failure: Conflict with other naughty plugins that use shortcodes – had this a while back. * Try deactivating other plugins (mass solution: rename plugin folder > glugin or similar test, then restore original folder name and reactivate the plugins one by one.) * Yeah, tedious i know; I think there is a plugin that selectively activates/deactivates for this sort of adventure. * [zondar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zondar/) * (@zondar) * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-jquery-hover-footnotes-doesnt-work-for-me/#post-2516066) * OK, this editor doesn’t like square brackets – and you can’t edit yr posts in this basic thing . . last shot : ( * … and the text you want to pop up , encased in double square brackets like this: * `[1](http://codex.wordpress.org/1)Small download - only 100KB[1](http://codex.wordpress.org/1)` * [master412160](https://wordpress.org/support/users/master412160/) * (@master412160) * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-jquery-hover-footnotes-doesnt-work-for-me/#post-2516209) * It works but the plugin is bugged for me. * It keeps re-generating my homepage over and over. So it’s quite messy. * The easy fix is to hit the update button twice but that is annoying to do each time. * [master412160](https://wordpress.org/support/users/master412160/) * (@master412160) * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-jquery-hover-footnotes-doesnt-work-for-me/#post-2516210) * plz delete, double posted. 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