Why can't I get footnotes to carry over to my WordPress blog? I'm using a MacBook Pro with
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I cannot get footnotes into my WordPress blog. They aren’t being carried over for some reason.
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Hi!
I currently see footnotes on your post here:
Could you let me know what you mean by “they aren’t being carried over”? Are you adding them in a third-party tool (like Word) and then copying and pasting the content into WordPress.com?
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I’m using Pages on a MacBook with either Firefox or Safari. Both browsers don’t allow me to copy and paste Pages document or Word document with footnotes. I can copy the document and post it someplace else with footnotes, so I know the footnotes are being copied.
For the blogs with footnotes, I used another computer (as mine doesn’t work for some unknown reason). -
Essentially, all I do is copy an entire document in Pages (be it in Pages or Word document format) and paste it into WordPress. It’ll post the body of the text without the footnotes.
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Thanks for confirming @existentialtheory! I just double-checked on my side, and I was able to reproduce the behavior you described. I suspect this has something to do with the container that the footnotes are in within the Pages document. When you paste into another Pages document, the same container exists so the footnotes are copied over. In WordPress.com, the “Footnotes” container does not exist so the content isn’t copied over.
The best solution would be to double-click within the footnotes section and copy the content separately like this:
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Sorry for the delayed response, but this does NOT work. I can go through and copy and paste individual footnotes (which is long and tedious- some of my papers have 50 footnotes or more, which makes this very ridiculous and long), but this does not copy and paste the footnote number and place it in the correct place any way.
In other words, by doing what you recommended, you just end up with paragraphs of text (footnotes being amalgamated into the text).Here’s what copy and paste looks like (of a footnote – notice that the number is missing, it was footnote number 7):
I am referring to the influential (and game-changing) book by E. P. Sanders, Jesus and Judaism (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1984).
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Essentially, I cannot figure out why when I use WordPress on my Mac and try to copy and paste a document WITH footnotes into WordPress, the footnotes are never pasted…
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I just tested this out in several other programs. I created a Pages document with a footnote as shown here:
Then, I copied the entire text using Cmd + A. When I pasted that text into any of the following, the footnote number did not come along:
– Evernote
– Simplenote
– Text Edit
– WordPress.comThe only way I could have the footnote when pasted was if I pasted into another Pages document. I’m wondering if this is a limitation on the Pages side. Did you have previous software that would carry the footnote number when you copy and paste?
There are two workarounds that I’ve found at the moment:
1. Either save or open the document as a PDF. If you copy and paste from the PDF version, the numbers do come along with the footnotes and text.
2. Create the documents outside of Word/Pages either in WordPress.com or in a Text Editor. When I created footnotes manually in Text Edit on Mac, the numbers carried over when copied and pasted. You can use superscript tags to create the traditional footnote look like this:
sup>1</sup>You would need to make this adjustment in the Text Editor.
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