rjl20

Removing the second question mark from line 674 of class/task.php in 2.2.6 worked for me. It looks like the only other difference in 2.2.6 was something to do with templates, which I’m not using, so rolling back to 2.2.5 would also have been a good fix.

Hm. Between 2.2.5 and 2.2.6 I started getting this warning in the error log, and all my references were missing and the in-text footnotes were all numbered “1”:

PHP Warning: preg_replace(): Compilation failed: lookbehind assertion is not fixed length at offset 0 in […]/wp-content/plugins/footnotes/class/task.php on line 674

PHP version is 7.4.13, no other plugins that would be rewriting the post text before footnotes gets involved. Changing the regex back to ‘#(?<!\w=[\'”])(https?://[^\\s<]+)#’ fixes it for me. That sounds like a gnarly problem to be trying to solve; I don’t envy you the task.

I’ve uploaded a newer version of the script which has some comments at the top about what you need to change in order to get it working somewhere else: https://www.elsewhere.org/mbedr/dev/src/index.php.txt

The basic instructions are:

1: download everything from https://www.elsewhere.org/mbedr/dev/src/
2: copy the files to your own web host
3: remove “.txt” from the end of all the filenames
4: edit index.php and set the three variables near the top which specify the URL of your installation, your Flickr API key, and the path to the cache directory you want to use.

This isn’t really wordpress related, so if you need further help, feel free to drop me a line at the mbedr comment thread: https://www.elsewhere.org/journal/archives/2008/02/23/mbedr/

(I’m the author of mbedr.)

What kind of problems are you having getting mbedr working on your site? I use it on my WordPress sites without issues.