Important update: The future of this plugin

Hi everyone,

You’ll notice that not a lot has happened with this plugin for a while, despite a long list of issues and feature requests in Github. The reality is, I just don’t have the time.

So, I’ve decided to concentrate my time and efforts on just certain plugins within my portfolio – not necessarily those that are the most popular but those that “spark joy”, to quote Marie Kondo. Basically, those that I enjoy working on.

Sadly, this plugin didn’t make the cut. Taking over a plugin from somebody else is always tricky as you spend a lot of your time just trying to understand what they did and why. On top of that, a lot needs doing to it, particularly that annoying JS-based tooltip.

What does this mean? Well, it’s not going away for a start. Instead, it’s going to enter a hibernation mode, only waking from its slumber when needed. When is that?

1. Important security changes
2. Major bugs

And that’s it*. It won’t even be updated for WordPress compatibility, as I won’t spend any time testing it when a new release comes out.

In due course I’ll update the README to reflect all of the above and even add a dismissible admin messages too for those who won’t necessarily see that either.

If you want to find an alternative, then I’d recommend footnotes, which also makes use of double brackets as a way to identify any footnotes within post content, which should make a switch to that plugin effortless for a lot of people.

If you’d like to take over this plugin, and have plugin development experience, then please reach out to me on the WordPress Slack – I’m user @dartiss.

*obvs, I reserve the right to do something above and beyond this if I feel the urge

• This topic was modified 2 years, 11 months ago by David Artiss.
• This topic was modified 2 years, 11 months ago by David Artiss.