Markdown footnotes in lists

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    askj113 · Member ·

    Markdown footnotes in lists don’t seem to work. If I put [^4] after a sentence in an ordered list in the text editor, when I update the page and look at the post the footnote that reference links to is completely missing, as are all after it (but the ones before the first in a list show up fine). I even checked the page source and they’re just not there, though as soon as I go back into the editor the footnotes are still there.

    I’ve tried searching, but I couldn’t find any reference to this being a known issue. Has anyone else encountered this?

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    timethief · Member ·

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    askj113 · Member ·

    Thanks, I appreciate it

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    askj113 · Member ·

    Further info: here’s one of the posts I’m having trouble with. There are 9 more footnotes not showing up there

    africaplus.wordpress.com/2013/09/03/democracy-at-bay-the-arab-spring-and-sub-saharan-africa/

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    amightywp · Member ·

    Hi Jeremy,

    Do you mind if I get a bit more information from you?

    Looking at your post, it looks like the ^4, ^5 etc continue to still appear, the corresponding footnotes are just missing from the published article. Is that the case in all of your other instances as well? And is it always starting with 4 or is it random?

    Also, how did you compose this piece? We have a few different ways, so that’s why I’m asking. Was it in our new editor (at https://wordpress.com/post/), or the older one (https://africaplus.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post-new.php). At either one, were you using the Visual Editor or the Text Editor?

    And finally, you wrote in to us on FF, was that what you were using when this happened, or was it something else?

    Thanks in advance for the information!

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    askj113 · Member ·

    I took another look and figured it out. I was using html for the lists <ol><li> and then using markdown footnotes inside of those html tags, and they weren’t playing nice together. Once I made the lists using markdown syntax (1. 2.) the footnotes started showing up fine and there wasn’t an issue anymore. This was in the older editor, text editor, on FF.

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    amightywp · Member ·

    Ah! That does indeed explain it.

    I’m glad you figured it out, and thanks for letting me know!

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