Plugin for footnotes Topic is solved

[palmarejo1]

I have two sizeable but old Joomla websites on academic subjects. On them I have a plugin that uses {footnote}{/footnote} to identify footnotes and place them, numbered sequentially, at the end of the article. This is extremely useful and time-saving, especially when one revises a document and adds extra footnotes.

I now have started a new Joomla site (3.9) and cannot believe that such a facility no longer exists. However, I have been unable to find a compatible component.

Can anyone please help me. I am not a developer.

Thanks

[toivo]

The following plugin from 2008 looks like the one you were using on the old sites:
http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/footnotes/frs/

Try the attached quick conversion to support 3.x.

[sozzled]

@toivo: You are a life-saver, mate! For years I've been adding footnotes manually, by hand! Of course I should've imagined that the process could be easily automated with a content plugin.

As far as I can tell, your doctored version of the original plugin works well with no compatibility issues as far as PHP 7 and J! 3.9 are concerned. The plugin passes the JED Checker for all practical purposes. Minor cosmetics aside ... piece of cake.

[toivo]

Cheers. I should resuscitate this extension properly on Github.

[JAVesey]

@Toivo

[KianWilliam]

Also keep in mind that many times when a simple extension(like footnote plugin) is not supportable, with few changes in original files you can make it supportable, like change of joomla version in manifest file(xml file),
using jed component to learn about deprecated methods and etc. You do not need to be a coder to be able to do that and there are simple tutorials that are able to lead you
Kian William

[sozzled]

I've been experimenting with the basic plugin and it works (for the most part) but only for single articles. If the plugin shortcodes are used in the "intro text" in category blogs, the shortcodes are not activated. It's fairly straightforward to fix this by using the $context in the plugin. What I've done is to rewrite the plugin, fix a few of the issues in the original version and to add some additional features.