Title: [Plugin: WP-Footnotes] Sidenotes
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: WP-Footnotes] Sidenotes

 *  [robjhyndman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robjhyndman/)
 * (@robjhyndman)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-footnotes-sidenotes/)
 * How do you create a sidenote rather than a footnote? It doesn’t seem to be covered
   in the manual, although the details on wordpress.org say it is possible.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-footnotes/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-footnotes/)

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 *  Plugin Author [drzax](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drzax/)
 * (@drzax)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-footnotes-sidenotes/#post-1630555)
 * That depends entirely on what your definition of ‘sidenotes’ is.
 * The footnotes are very well marked up with CSS classes and ids so you should 
   be able to lay them out on your page however you like (within the limitations
   of CSS). In this sense it should be trivial to produce ‘sidenotes’ with a little
   CSS knowledge.
 * Of course whether it’s possible to do exactly what you envisage using CSS is 
   uncertain.
 *  Plugin Author [drzax](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drzax/)
 * (@drzax)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-footnotes-sidenotes/#post-1630556)
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 *  Thread Starter [robjhyndman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robjhyndman/)
 * (@robjhyndman)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-footnotes-sidenotes/#post-1630646)
 * What I have in mind is a note appearing in the right sidebar next to where it
   is inserted in the post. I know a little css but not enough to know how to do
   that. Can you give any clues?
 *  Plugin Author [drzax](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drzax/)
 * (@drzax)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-footnotes-sidenotes/#post-1630647)
 * I suspect what you’re after is probably not possible with WP-Footnotes (the notes
   would still need to appear as a group), and in fact what you want is most likely
   achievable without any plugin at all.
 * You could add each note to your post inside a `span` tag with a class of ‘sidenote’
   then add the following CSS;
 * `
    .sidnote {float:right; width: 20%;}
 * That would achieve something close to what you want, but would probably more 
   accurately be described as ‘pull quotes’.
 * That’s probably the best I can do, sorry.

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 * Last activity: [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-footnotes-sidenotes/#post-1630647)
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