A nice new footnotes plugin for WordPress. It uses simple square brackets, which must have a number at the start of them. It accepts HTML links inside the brackets. I’d love to see this plugin come as standard with the free WordPress.com -hosted blogs…
To get the smaller font size on the footnotes, paste this CSS into your theme’s styles CSS, probably at the foot of the font section (that worked for me). The plugin doesn’t add this CSS automatically.
I see the plugin is no longer maintained. So, for future reference, here’s the CSS mentioned above:
Here’s the CSS I use:
.footnotes {
font-size: 85%;
line-height: 1.5em;
padding: 10px 0 10px 0;
}
.footnotes .footnotedivider {
width: 120px;
border-bottom: 1px solid #ccc;
}
.footnotes li {
margin: 0 0 5px 0;
}
sup.footnote a {
text-decoration: none;
font-size: 80%;
}
sup.footnote {
line-height: 0em;
}
.footnotereverse a {
padding: 0 0 0 5px;
text-decoration: none;
}
Here’s my hack for getting a footnotes system for the free WordPress blogs.