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+= 2.7.1 =
+- Bugfix: Stylesheets: namespace collapsed CSS class, thanks to @cybermrmotte @markyz89 bug reports.
+- Dashboard: move Plugin settings under default WP Settings menu.
+- Bugfix: Footnotes: fix bug when using multiple paragraphs in footnotes.
+- Documentation: remove outdated MCI/ManFisher references.
+- Documentation: split changelog into seperate file.  
+
+= 2.7.0 =
+- Adding: Reference container: optionally per section by shortcode, thanks to @grflukas issue report.
+- Bugfix: Excerpts: make excerpt handling backward compatible, thanks to @mfessler bug report.
+- Bugfix: Dashboard: debug the 'Quick start guide' tab, thanks to @rumperuu bug report.
+
+= 2.6.6 =
+- Bugfix: Process: fix issue that caused some footnotes to not be processed, thanks to @docteurfitness @rkupadhya @offpeakdesign bug reports.
+
+= 2.6.5 =
+- Bugfix: Editor buttons: debug button by reverting name change in PHP file while JS file and HTML template remained unsynced, thanks to @gova bug report.
+- Bugfix: Hooks: default-disable the_excerpt hook with respect to theme-specific excerpt handling, thanks to @mmallett bug reports.
+
+= 2.6.4 =
+- Bugfix: Process: remove trailing comma after last argument in multiline function calls for PHP < 7.3, thanks to @scroom @copylefter @lagoon24 bug reports.
+
+= 2.6.3 =
+- Bugfix: Reference container: debug footnotes number text color in the table header cells required for accessibility, thanks to @spaceling bug report.
+- Bugfix: Excerpts: debug the 'Yes' option by generating excerpts with footnotes on the basis of the posts, thanks to @nikelaos @martinneumannat bug reports.
+- Bugfix: Reference container: debug span elements in backlinks by removing 'event.stopPropagation()' from jQuery scroll down function, thanks to @lolzim bug report.
+- Update: Excerpts: set the default value of the debugged 'Footnotes in excerpts' setting to Yes.
+- Update: Excerpts: enable the hook 'the_excerpt' by default to make the debugged 'Footnotes in excerpts' setting effective.
+
+= 2.6.2 =
+- Bugfix: Excerpts: debug the 'No' option by generating excerpts from scratch without footnotes, thanks to @nikelaos @markcheret @martinneumannat bug reports.
+- Bugfix: Tooltips: Continue reading: debug link for AMP compatibility mode.
+
+= 2.6.1 =
+- Bugfix: Tooltips: Styling: Font color: set default value to black for maximum contrast on default white background color, thanks to 4msc bug report.
+- Bugfix: Tooltips: Styling: Background color: set default value back to white because empty doesn’t work out as expected.
+
+= 2.6.0 =
+- Adding: Reference container: get expanding and collapsing to work also in AMP compatibility mode, thanks to @westonruter code contribution.
+- Adding: Tooltips: make display work purely by style rules for AMP compatibility, thanks to @milindmore22 code contribution.
+- Bugfix: Tooltips: AMP tooltips: enable accessibility by keyboard navigation, thanks to @westonruter code contribution.
+
+= 2.5.15 =
+- Bugfix: Dashboard: General settings: Footnote start and end short codes: debug select box for shortcodes with pointy brackets.
+- Update: Dashboard: General settings: Footnote start and end short codes: add information about pointy brackets.
+
+= 2.5.14 =
+- Bugfix: Footnote delimiter short codes: fix numbering bug by cross-editor HTML escapement schema unification, thanks to @patrick_here @alifarahani8000 @gova bug reports.
+- Update: Dashboard: General settings: Footnote start and end short codes: delete comment on pointy brackets.
+
+= 2.5.13 =
+- Bugfix: Dashboard: Referrers and tooltips: Backlink symbol: debug select box by reverting identity check to equality check, thanks to @lolzim bug report.
+- Bugfix: Footnote delimiter short codes: debug closing pointy brackets in the Block Editor by accounting for unbalanced HTML escapement.
+- Update: Dashboard: General settings: Footnote start and end short codes: update information about short codes using pointy brackets.
+
+= 2.5.12 =
+- Update: Scrolling: CSS-based smooth scroll behavior (optional), thanks to @paulgpetty and @bogosavljev issue reports.
+- Bugfix: Backlinks: reflect scroll functions down/up differentiation across the template set, thanks to @bogosavljev bug report.
+- Bugfix: Referrers: Hard links: enforce scroll offset with '!important' property for surroundings specifying otherwise, thanks to @bogosavljev bug report.
+- Bugfix: Forms: prevent inadvertently toggling input elements with footnotes in their label, by optionally moving footnotes after the end of the label.
+- Bugfix: Forms: prevent inadvertently toggling input elements with footnotes in their label, by optionally disconnecting those labels.
+- Bugfix: Scroll offset: correct syntax error in the main style sheet.
+- Bugfix: Reference container: correct new syntax errors in the 8 reference container row templates.
+- Bugfix: Reference container: correct a new typo in the JavaScript reference container template.
+- Update: Dashboard: General settings: split a dedicated 'URL fragment ID configuration' metabox off the 'Scrolling behavior' metabox.
+
+= 2.5.11 =
+- Bugfix: Forms: remove footnotes from input field values, thanks to @bogosavljev bug report.
+- Bugfix: Reference container: apply web semantics to improve readability for assistive technologies, thanks to @derivationfr issue report and code contribution.
+- Bugfix: Tooltips: Styling: Background color: empty default value to adopt theme background, thanks to 4msc bug report.
+- Bugfix: Dashboard: debug text input fields by disabling quotation mark escapement, thanks to @rumperuu code contribution in the standards compliance overhaul.
+- Update: Documentation: Readme.txt: comment line below the 'Stable Tag' field to warn that this field is (unintuitively) parsed for release configuration.
+- Update: Documentation: Readme.txt: informative 'Version' field in sync with 'Version' in 'footnotes.php' for bugfix versions available ahead of the Stable Tag.
+- Update: Documentation: Readme.txt: informative 'Package Version' field in sync with the 'Package V.' field added in the 'footnotes.php' file header.
+- Update: Codebase: make PHP code comply to WordPress PHP Coding Standards requirements, thanks to @rumperuu code contribution and refactoring.
+- Bugfix: Forms: try to prevent the adverse effect of clicking footnote referrers in labels of input elements by 'event.stopPropagation()' in jQuery scroll down function.
+- Bugfix: Forms: mitigate the adverse effect of clicking footnote referrers in labels of input elements by an optional, configurable scroll down delay.
+- Bugfix: Scroll durations: mitigate the downside of delayed scrolling down by optionally enabling asymmetric scroll durations (e.g. fast down, slower up).
+- Update: Scroll delays: add a setting to configure also a scroll up delay for completeness.
+- Bugfix: Tooltips: Styling: protect padding against removal in surroundings with explicit zero padding.
+- Bugfix: Tooltips: Display: CSS transitions: fix syntax error.
+
+= 2.5.10 =
+- Bugfix: Codebase: revert to 2.5.8 with apologies (below), thanks to @little-shiva @watershare @adjayabdg @staho @frav8 @voregnev @dsl225 @alexclassroom @a223123131 @codldmac bug reports.
+
+= 2.5.9d1 =
+- Update: Codebase: accidental release of trunk/, tagged when 2.5.10 was released 3½ h later. OUR APOLOGIES, PLEASE, FOR THE 2.5.9d1 PLUGIN 'Stable Tag' MISHAP.
+
+= 2.5.8 =
+- Bugfix: Layout: support right-to-left writing direction by replacing remaining CSS values 'left' with 'start', thanks to @arahmanshaalan bug report.
+- Bugfix: Layout: support right-to-left writing direction by enabling mirrored paddings on HTML dir="rtl" pages, thanks to @arahmanshaalan bug report.
+
+= 2.5.7 =
+- Bugfix: Process: fix footnote duplication by emptying the footnotes list every time the search algorithm is run on the content, thanks to @inoruhana bug report.
+
+= 2.5.6 =
+- Bugfix: Reference container: optional alternative expanding and collapsing without jQuery for use with hard links, thanks to @hopper87it @pkverma99 issue reports.
+- Bugfix: Alternative tooltips: shrink width to short content.
+- Update: Documentation: slightly revise or update the plugin’s welcome page on WordPress.org.
+
+= 2.5.5 =
+- Update: Stylesheets: increase speed and energy efficiency by tailoring stylesheets to the needs of the instance, thanks to @docteurfitness design contribution.
+- Bugfix: Stylesheets: minify to shrink the carbon footprint, increase speed and implement best practice, thanks to @docteurfitness issue report.
+- Bugfix: Libraries: optimize processes by loading external and internal scripts only if needed, thanks to @docteurfitness issue report.
+- Bugfix: Process: fix numbering bug impacting footnote #2 with footnote #1 close to start, thanks to @rumperuu bug report, thanks to @lolzim code contribution.
+- Update: Dashboard: add or edit descriptions to the tooltips and tooltip text delimiter settings and the backlink symbol configuration setting.
+- Update: Dashboard: decrease font size and padding of the descriptions.
+
+= 2.5.4 =
+- Bugfix: Referrers: optional fixes to vertical alignment, font size and position (static) for in-theme consistency and cross-theme stability, thanks to @tomturowski bug report.
+- Bugfix: Tooltips: fix jQuery positioning bug moving tooltips out of view and affecting (TablePress tables in) some themes, thanks to @wisenilesh bug report.
+- Bugfix: Reference container, tooltips: URL wrap: enable the 'word-wrap: anywhere' rule, thanks to @rebelc0de bug report.
+- Bugfix: Reference container, tooltips: URL wrap: account for leading space in value, thanks to @karolszakiel example provision.
+- Bugfix: Dashboard: Tooltip dimensions: move from 'Tooltip position' to a dedicated metabox, thanks to @codldmac issue report.
+- Update: Libraries: jQuery Tools: replace deprecated function jQuery.isFunction(), thanks to @a223123131 bug report.
+- Bugfix: Editor button: Classic Editor text mode: try to fix uncaught reference error of “QTags is not defined”, thanks to @dpartridge bug report.
+- Update: Reference container: Hard backlinks (optional): optional configurable tooltip hinting to use the backbutton instead, thanks to @theroninjedi47 bug report.
+- Update: Tooltips: Excerpt delimiter: add configuration settings in the dashboard.
+- Bugfix: Tooltips: fix display in Popup Maker popups by correcting a coding error.
+- Bugfix: Editor button: Classic Editor text mode: correct label to singular.
+- Bugfix: Libraries: jQuery Tools: replace double equals sign discouraged in JavaScript with recommended triple equals sign.
+
+= 2.5.3 =
+- Bugfix: Reference container, tooltips: URL wrap: exclude URL pattern as folder name in Wayback Machine URL, thanks to @rumperuu bug report.
+
+= 2.5.2 =
+- Update: Tooltips: Excerpt delimiter: ability to display dedicated content before `[[/tooltip]]`, thanks to @jbj2199 issue report.
+- Bugfix: Localization: plugin language file name changes effective in version control system.
+
+= 2.5.1 =
+- Bugfix: Hooks: support footnotes in Popup Maker popups, thanks to @squatcher bug report.
+- Bugfix: Reference container: click on label expands but also collapses, thanks to @ahmadword bug report.
+- Bugfix: Reference container: Label: cursor takes pointer shape, thanks to @ahmadword bug report.
+- Bugfix: Dashboard: Custom CSS: mention validity of legacy while visible, thanks to @rkupadhya bug report.
+- Bugfix: Dashboard: Custom CSS: make class list column formatting effective again.
+- Update: Readme/documentation: add new contributors in the file header’s Contributors field.
+- Update: Readme/documentation: update or fix URLs in Download, Support and Development sections.
+
+= 2.5.0 =
+- Adding: Templates: Enable template location stack, thanks to @misfist issue report and code contribution.
+- Bugfix: Hooks: support footnotes on category pages, thanks to @vitaefit bug report, thanks to @misfist code contribution.
+- Bugfix: Footnote delimiters: Syntax validation: exclude certain cases involving scripts, thanks to @andreasra bug report.
+- Bugfix: Footnote delimiters: Syntax validation: complete message with hint about setting, thanks to @andreasra bug report.
+- Bugfix: Footnote delimiters: Syntax validation: limit length of quoted string to 300 characters, thanks to @andreasra bug report.
+- Update: Dashboard: Footnote delimiters: Syntax validation: add more information around the setting.
+- Bugfix: Dashboard: Footnote delimiters: warning about '&gt;' escapement disruption in WordPress Block Editor.
+
+= 2.4.0 =
+- Adding: Footnote delimiters: syntax validation for balanced footnote start and end tag short codes.
+- Bugfix: Templates: optimize template load and processing based on settings, thanks to @misfist code contribution.
+- Bugfix: Process: initialize hard link address variables to empty string to fix 'undefined variable' bug, thanks to @a223123131 bug report.
+- Bugfix: Reference container: Label: set empty label to U+202F NNBSP for more robustness, thanks to @lukashuggenberg feedback.
+- Bugfix: Scroll offset: initialize to safer one third window height for more robustness, thanks to @lukashuggenberg bug report.
+- Bugfix: Footnote delimiters: Dashboard: remove new option involving HTML comment tags only usable in source mode.
+- Bugfix: Reference container: Row borders: adapt left padding to the presence of an optional left border.
+- Bugfix: Reference container: add class 'footnote_plugin_symbol' to disambiguate repurposed class 'footnote_plugin_link'.
+
+= 2.3.0 =
+- Adding: Referrers and backlinks: optional hard links for AMP compatibility, thanks to @psykonevro issue report, thanks to @martinneumannat issue report and code contribution.
+- Bugfix: Reference container: convert top padding to margin and make it a setting, thanks to @hamshe bug report.
+- Bugfix: Referrers and backlinks: more effectively remove unwanted underline by disabling box shadow used instead of bottom border, thanks to @klusik feedback.
+- Bugfix: Dashboard: Custom CSS: swap migration Boolean, meaning 'show legacy' instead of 'migration complete', due to storage data structure constraints.
+- Update: Dashboard: Priority level: rename tab as 'Scope and priority', to account for the new alternative depending on widget_text hook activation.
+- Bugfix: Referrers and tooltips: correct scope of the line height fix to only affect the referrers, not the tooltip content.
+- Bugfix: Referrers: extend clickable area to the full line height in sync with current pointer shape.
+- Bugfix: Referrers: extend scope of the underline inhibition to be more comprehensive and consistent.
+- Bugfix: Reference container: Basic responsive page layout: edits to one of the optional stylesheets.
+
+= 2.2.10 =
+- Bugfix: Reference container: add option for table borders to restore pre-2.0.0 design, thanks to @noobishh issue report.
+- Bugfix: Reference container: add missing container ID in function name in default table row template for uncombined footnotes.
+- Bugfix: Reference container, tooltips: URL wrap: support also file transfer protocol URLs.
+
+= 2.2.9 =
+- Bugfix: Reference container, widget_text hook: support for multiple containers in a page, thanks to @justbecuz bug report.
+- Update: Priority levels: set widget_text default to 98 and update its description in the dashboard Priority level tab.
+- Bugfix: Reference container, tooltips: URL wrap: account for RFC 2396 allowed characters in parameter names.
+- Bugfix: Reference container, tooltips: URL wrap: exclude URLs also where the equals sign is preceded by an entity or character reference.
+
+= 2.2.8 =
+- Bugfix: Reference container, tooltips: URL wrap: correctly make the quotation mark optional wrt query parameters, thanks to @spiralofhope2 bug report.
+
+= 2.2.7 =
+- Bugfix: Reference container, tooltips: URL wrap: remove a bug introduced in the regex, thanks to @rjl20 @spaceling @lukashuggenberg @klusik @friedrichnorth @bernardzit bug reports.
+
+= 2.2.6 =
+- Bugfix: Reference container, tooltips: URL wrap: make the quotation mark optional wrt query parameters, thanks to @spiralofhope2 bug report.
+- Adding: Templates: support for custom templates in sibling folder, thanks to @misfist issue report.
+
+= 2.2.5 =
+- Bugfix: Dashboard: Footnotes numbering: add missing support for Ibid. notation to suggestions, thanks to @meglio design contribution.
+- Bugfix: Reference container: Label: make bottom border an option, thanks to @markhillyer issue report.
+- Bugfix: Reference container: Label: option to select paragraph or heading element, thanks to @markhillyer issue report.
+- Bugfix: Reference container: delete position shortcode if unused because position may be widget or footer, thanks to @hamshe bug report.
+- Update: Tooltips: Alternative tooltips: connect to position/timing settings (for themes not supporting jQuery tooltips).
+- Update: Dashboard: Tooltip position/timing settings: include alternative tooltips (for themes not supporting jQuery tooltips).
+- Bugfix: Dashboard: Tooltip position/timing settings: raise above tooltip truncation settings for better consistency.
+
+= 2.2.4 =
+- Bugfix: Reference container: Backlink symbol selection: move back to previous tab “Referrers and tooltips”.
+- Bugfix: Custom CSS: make inserting existing in header depend on migration complete checkbox status.
+
+= 2.2.3 =
+- Bugfix: Custom CSS: insert new CSS in the public page header element after existing CSS.
+
+= 2.2.2 =
+- Bugfix: Dashboard: Link element setting only under General settings > Reference container.
+- Update: Dashboard: Custom CSS: unearth text area and migrate to dedicated tab as designed.
+- Bugfix: Reference container: edits to optional basic responsive page layout stylesheets.
+
+= 2.2.1 =
+- Bugfix: Dashboard: duplicate moved settings under their legacy tab to account for data structure.
+
+= 2.2.0 =
+- Adding: Reference container: support for custom position shortcode, thanks to @hamshe issue report.
+- Adding: Dashboard: Footnote delimiters: more predefined options.
+- Adding: Numbering styles: lowercase Roman numerals support.
+- Update: Priority levels: update the notice in the dashboard Priority tab.
+- Update: Dashboard: Tooltip settings: group into 3 thematic containers.
+- Update: Dashboard: Main settings: group into 3 specific containers.
+- Update: Dashboard: move link element option to the Referrers options.
+- Update: Dashboard: move URL wrap option to the Reference container options.
+- Update: Dashboard: group both Custom CSS and priority level settings under the same tab.
+- Update: Dashboard: rename tab labels 'Referrers and tooltips', 'Priority and CSS'.
+- Bugfix: Tooltips: add 'important' property to z-index to fix display overlay issue.
+- Bugfix: Localization: correct arguments for plugin textdomain load function.
+- Bugfix: Reference container, tooltips: URL wrap: specifically catch the quotation mark.
+- Adding: Footnotes mention in the footer: more options.
+
+= 2.1.6 =
+- Bugfix: Priority levels: set the_content priority level to 98 to prevent plugin conflict, thanks to @marthalindeman bug report.
+- Bugfix: Tooltips: set z-index to maximum 2147483647 to address display issues with overlay content, thanks to @russianicons bug report.
+- Bugfix: Reference container, tooltips: URL wrap: fix regex, thanks to @a223123131 bug report.
+- Bugfix: Dashboard: URL wrap: add option to properly enable/disable URL wrap.
+- Update: Dashboard: reorder tabs and update tab labels.
+- Bugfix: Dashboard: remove Expert mode enable setting since permanently enabled as 'Priority'.
+- Bugfix: Dashboard: fix punctuation-related localization issue by including colon in labels.
+- Bugfix: Localization: conform to WordPress plugin language file name scheme, thanks to @nikelaos bug report.
+
+= 2.1.5 =
+- Bugfix: Reference container, tooltips: URL wrap: exclude image source too, thanks to @bjrnet21 bug report.
+
+= 2.1.4 =
+- Bugfix: Scroll offset: make configurable to fix site-dependent issues related to fixed headers.
+- Bugfix: Scroll duration: make configurable to conform to website content and style requirements.
+- Bugfix: Tooltips: make display delays and fade durations configurable to conform to website style.
+- Bugfix: Tooltips: Styling: fix font size issue by adding font size to settings with legacy as default.
+- Bugfix: Reference container: fix layout by optionally enqueuing additional stylesheet (depends on theme).
+- Bugfix: Reference container: fix layout issues by moving backlink column width to settings.
+- Bugfix: Reference container: make separating and terminating punctuation optional and configurable, thanks to @docteurfitness issue report and code contribution.
+- Bugfix: Reference container: Backlinks: fix stacked enumerations by adding optional line breaks.
+- Bugfix: Tooltips: Read-on button: Label: prevent line breaks.
+- Bugfix: Referrers and backlinks: Styling: make link elements optional to fix issues, thanks to @docteurfitness issue report and code contribution.
+- Bugfix: Referrers: Styling: disable hover underline.
+- Bugfix: Reference container, tooltips: fix line wrapping of URLs (hyperlinked or not) based on pattern, not link element.
+- Bugfix: Reference container: Backlink symbol: support for appending when combining identicals is on.
+- Bugfix: Reference container: Backlinks: deprioritize hover underline to ease customization.
+- Bugfix: Reference container: Backlinks: fix line breaking with respect to separators and terminators.
+- Bugfix: Reference container: Label: delete overflow hidden rule.
+- Bugfix: Reference container: Expand/collapse button: same padding to the right for right-to-left.
+- Bugfix: Reference container: Styles: re-add the class dedicated to combined footnotes indices.
+- Bugfix: Dashboard: move arrow settings from Customize to Settings > Reference container to reunite and fix issue with new heading wording.
+- Bugfix: Dashboard: Main settings: fix layout, raise shortcodes to top.
+- Bugfix: Dashboard: Tooltip settings: Truncation length: change input box type from text to numeric.
+- Update: Dashboard: Notices: use explicit italic style.
+- Bugfix: Dashboard: Other settings: Excerpt: display guidance next to select box, thanks to @nikelaos bug report.
+- Bugfix: WordPress hooks: the_content: set priority to 1000 as a safeguard.
+- Update: Dashboard: Expert mode: streamline and update description for hooks and priority levels.
+
+= 2.1.3 =
+- Bugfix: Hooks: disable the_excerpt hook by default to fix issues, thanks to @nikelaos bug report.
+- Bugfix: Hooks: disable widget_text hook by default to fix accordions declaring headings as widgets.
+- Bugfix: Reference container: fix column width when combining turned on by reverting new CSS class to legacy.
+- Bugfix: Reference container: fix width in mobile view by URL wrapping for Unicode-non-conformant browsers, thanks to @karolszakiel bug report.
+- Bugfix: Reference container: table cell backlinking if index is single and combining identicals turned on.
+- Bugfix: Styling: raise Custom CSS priority to override settings.
+- Bugfix: Styling: Tooltips: raise settings priority to override theme stylesheets.
+
+= 2.1.2 =
+- Bugfix: Reference container: Backlinks: no underline on hover cell when combining identicals is on.
+- Bugfix: Dashboard: priority level settings for all other hooks, thanks to @nikelaos bug report.
+- Update: Dashboard: WordPress documentation URLs of the hooks.
+- Update: Dashboard: feature description for the hooks priority level settings, thanks to @nikelaos bug report.
+
+= 2.1.1 =
+- Bugfix: Referrers, reference container: Combining identical footnotes: fix dead links and ensure referrer-backlink bijectivity, thanks to @happyches bug report.
+- Bugfix: Dashboard: priority level setting for the_content hook, thanks to @imeson bug report.
+- Update: Libraries: jQuery Tools: redact (comment out) all 6 instances of deprecated function jQuery.browser(), thanks to @bjrnet21 @cconser @vyassuresh @spaceling @widecast @olivlyon @maxident bug reports.
+- Bugfix: Libraries: jQuery Tools: complete minification.
+- Bugfix: Libraries: make script loads depend on tooltip implementation option.
+- Bugfix: Libraries: jQuery UI: properly pick the libraries registered by WordPress needed for tooltips.
+- Bugfix: Reference container: fix start pages by making its display optional, thanks to @dragon013 bug report.
+- Bugfix: Reference container: Backlink symbol: make optional, not suggest configuring it to invisible, thanks to @spaceling feedback.
+- Bugfix: Reference container: Footnote number links: disable bottom border for theme compatibility.
+- Bugfix: Reference container: option to restore pre-2.0.0 layout with the backlink symbol in an extra column.
+- Bugfix: Reference container: option to append symbol (prepended by default), thanks to @spaceling code contribution.
+- Bugfix: Reference container: Table rows: fix top and bottom padding.
+- Bugfix: Referrers: new setting for vertical align: superscript (default) or baseline (optional), thanks to @cwbayer bug report.
+- Bugfix: Referrers: line height 0 to fix superscript, thanks to @cwbayer bug report.
+- Bugfix: Tooltips: optional alternative JS implementation with CSS transitions to fix configuration-related outage, thanks to @andreasra feedback.
+- Bugfix: Tooltips: add delay (400ms) before fade-out to fix UX wrt links and Read-on button.
+- Bugfix: Tooltips: fix line breaking for hyperlinked URLs in Unicode-non-compliant user agents, thanks to @andreasra bug report.
+- Bugfix: Formatting: disable overline showing in some themes on hovered backlinks.
+
+= 2.1.0 =
+- Adding: Tooltips: Read-on button: Label: configurable instead of localizable, thanks to @rovanov example provision.
+- Bugfix: Referrers: disable bottom border for theme compatibility.
+- Update: Accessibility: add 'speaker-mute' class to reference container.
+- Bugfix: Dashboard: Layout: add named selectors to limit applicability of styles.
+- UPDATE: Hooks: remove 'the_post', the plugin stops supporting this hook.
+
+= 2.0.8 =
+- BUGFIX: Priority level back to PHP_INT_MAX (need to get in touch with other plugins).
+
+= 2.0.7 =
+- BUGFIX: Hooks: Default-disable 'the_post', thanks to @spaceling @markcheret @nyamachi @whichgodsaves @spiralofhope2 @mmallett @andreasra @widecast @ymorin007 @tashi1es bug reports.
+- Update: Set priority level back to 10 assuming it is unproblematic.
+- Update: Added backwards compatible support for legacy arrow and index placeholders in template.
+- Update: Settings defaults adjusted for better and more up-to-date tooltip layout.
+
+= 2.0.6 =
+- Bugfix: Infinite scroll: debug autoload by adding post ID, thanks to @docteurfitness issue report and code contribution.
+- Bugfix: Referrers: delete vertical align tweaks, for cross-theme and user agent compatibility.
+- Bugfix: Reference container: fix line breaking behavior in footnote number clusters.
+- Bugfix: Reference container: auto-extending column to fit widest, to fix display with short note texts.
+- Bugfix: Reference container: IDs: slightly increased left padding.
+- Bugfix: Translations: fix spelling error and erroneously changed word in en_GB and en_US.
+- Bugfix: Typesetting: discard the dot after footnote numbers as not localizable (should be optional).
+- Bugfix: Reference container: Collapse button fully clickable, not sign only.
+- Bugfix: Reference container: Collapse button 'collapse' with minus sign not hyphen-minus.
+- Update: Tooltips: set display predelay to 0 for responsiveness (was 800 since 2.0.0, 400 before).
+- Update: Tooltips: set fade duration to 200ms both ways (was 200 in and 2000 out since 2.0.0, 0 in and 100 out before).
+- BUGFIX: Priority level back to PHP_INT_MAX (ref container positioning not this plugin’s responsibility).
+- Update: Scroll offset: raise percentage from 12% to a safer 20% inner window height, by lack of configurability.
+
+= 2.0.5 =
+- Bugfix: Reference container: fix relative position through priority level, thanks to @june01 @imeson @spaceling bug reports, thanks to @spaceling code contribution.
+- Bugfix: Reference container: unset width of text column to fix site issues.
+- Update: Hooks: Default-enable all hooks to prevent footnotes from seeming broken in some parts.
+- Bugfix: Tooltips: Restore cursor shape 'pointer' over Read-on button after hard link removal.
+- Bugfix: Settings stylesheet: unenqueue to fix input boxes on public pages (enqueued for 2.0.4).
+
+= 2.0.4 =
+- Update: Restore arrow settings to customize or disable the now prepended arrow symbol, thanks to @mmallett issue report.
+- Update: Libraries: Load jQuery UI from WordPress, thanks to @check2020de issue report.
+- Bugfix: Referrers and backlinks: remove hard links to streamline browsing history, thanks to @theroninjedi47 bug report.
+- Bugfix: Reference container: remove inconvenient left/right cellpadding.
+- Bugfix: Tooltips: improve layout with inherited font size by lower line height.
+- Bugfix: Tooltips: 'Continue reading' button: disable default underline.
+- Bugfix: Translations: review all locales (en, de, es, fr), synced ref line # with edited code.
+- Bugfix: Dashboard: fix display of two headings containing the logo.
+
+= 2.0.3 =
+- Bugfix: Reference container: Self-adjusting width of ID column but hidden overflow.
+- Update: Reference container: clarify backlink semantics by prepended transitional up arrow, thanks to @mmallett issue report.
+- Bugfix: Fragment IDs: Prepended post ID to footnote number.
+- Bugfix: External stylesheets cache busting: add plugin version number argument in enqueuing function call.
+- Bugfix: Print style: prevent a page break just after the reference container label.
+- Bugfix: Print style: Hide reference collapse button.
+- Update: Reference container: Headline: remove padding before reference container label.
+- Update: Scroll offset: raise percentage from 5% to a safer 12% inner window height, by lack of setting.
+
+= 2.0.2 =
+- Bugfix: Reference container: restore expand/collapse button in the template, thanks to @ragonesi bug report.
+- Bugfix: Dashboard: Custom CSS: Available selectors: fix display of the last item.
+- Bugfix: Referrers and backlinks: restore default link color on screen, set color to inherit in print.
+- Bugfix: Referrers: disable text decoration underline by default, enable underline on hover.
+
+= 2.0.1 =
+- Bugfix: Reference container: enforce borderless table cells, thanks to @ragonesi bug report.
+- Update: Translations: revised fr_FR.
+
+= 2.0.0 =
+- Major contributions taken from WordPress user pewgeuges, all details here https://github.com/media-competence-institute/footnotes/blob/master/README.md:
+- Update: **symbol for backlinks** removed
+- Update: hyperlink moved to the reference number
+- Update: Tooltips: fix disabling bug by loading jQuery UI library, thanks to @rajinderverma @ericcorbett2 @honlapdavid @mmallett @twellve_million bug reports, thanks to @vonpiernik code contribution.
+- Update: Libraries: jQuery Tools: add condition whether deprecated function jQuery.browser() exists, thanks to @vonpiernik code contribution.
+- Bugfix: Localization: correct function call apply_filters() with all required arguments after PHP 7.1 promoted warning to error, thanks to @matkus2 bug report and code contribution.
+- Bugfix: footnote links script independent
+- Bugfix: Get the “Continue reading” link to work in the mouse-over box
+- Bugfix: Debug printed posts and pages
+- Bugfix: Display of combined identical notes
+- Update: Adjusted scrolling time and offset
+- Bugfix: Reference container: no borders around footnotes, thanks to @ragonesi bug report.
+- Bugfix: Mouse-over box display timing
+- Update: Translations: revised de_AT, de_DE, en_GB, en_US, es_ES
+
+= 1.6.6 =
+- Beginning of translation to French
+
+= 1.6.5 =
+- Bugfix: Improve widgets registration, thanks to @felipelavinz code contribution.
+- Update: Fix for deprecated PHP function create_function(), thanks to @psykonevro @daliasued bug reports, thanks to @felipelavinz code contribution.
+- Update: The CSS has been modified in order to show the tooltip numbers a little less higher than text
+- Bugfix: Dashboard: fix error on demo under the Preview tab.
+
+= 1.6.4 =
+- Update: replace deprecated function WP_Widget() with recommended __construct(), thanks to @dartiss code contribution.
+- Bugfix: Fixed occasional bug where footnote ordering could be out of sequence
+
+= 1.6.3 =
+- Bugfix: We were provided a fix by a user named toma. footnotes now works in sub-folder installations of WordPress
+
+= 1.6.2 =
+- Update: Changed the Preview tab
+- Bugfix: Html tags has been removed in the Reference container when the excerpt mode is enabled
+
+= 1.6.1 =
+- Update: Translations
+- Bugfix: Move to anchor
+
+= 1.6.0 =
+- **IMPORTANT**: Improved performance. You need to Activate the Plugin again. (Settings won't change!)
+- Adding: Setting to customize the mouse-over box shadow
+- Adding: Translation: United States
+- Adding: Translation: Austria
+- Adding: Translation: Spanish (many thanks to Pablo L.)
+- Update: Translations (de_DE and en_GB)
+- Update: Changed Plugins init file name to improve performance (Re-activation of the Plugin is required)
+- Update: ManFisher note styling
+- Update: Tested with latest nightly build of WordPress 4.1
+- Bugfix: Avoid multiple IDs for footnotes when multiple reference containers are displayed
+
+= 1.5.7 =
+- Adding: Setting to define the positioning of the mouse-over box
+- Adding: Setting to define an offset for the mouse-over box (precise positioning)
+- Bugfix: Target element to move down to the reference container is the footnote index instead of the arrow (possibility to hide the arrow)
+- Bugfix: Rating calculation for the 'other plugins' list
+
+= 1.5.6 =
+- **IMPORTANT**: We have changed the html tag for the superscript. Please check and update your custom CSS.
+- Adding: .pot file to enable Translations for everybody
+- Adding: Settings to customize the mouse-over box (color, background color, border, max. width)
+- Update: Translation file names
+- Update: Translation EN and DE
+- Update: Styling of the superscript (need to check custom CSS code for the superscript)
+- Update: Description of CSS classes for the 'customize CSS' text area
+- Bugfix: Removed 'a' tag around the superscript for Footnotes inside the content to avoid page reloads (empty href attribute)
+- Bugfix: Avoid Settings fallback to its default value after submit an empty value for a setting
+- Bugfix: Enable multiple WP_Post objects for the_post hook
+
+= 1.5.5 =
+- Adding: Expert mode setting
+- Adding: Activation and Deactivation of WordPress hooks to look for Footnotes (expert mode)
+- Adding: WordPress hooks: 'the_title' and 'widget_title' (default: disabled) to search for Footnote short codes
+- Bugfix: Default value for the WordPress hook the_post to be disabled (adds Footnotes twice to the Reference container)
+- Bugfix: Activation, Deactivation and Uninstall hook class name
+- Bugfix: Add submenu pages only once for each ManFisher WordPress Plugin
+- Bugfix: Display the Reference container in the Footer correctly
+
+= 1.5.4 =
+- Adding: Setting to enable an excerpt of the Footnotes mouse-over box text (default: disabled)
+- Adding: Setting to define the maximum length of the excerpt displayed in the mouse-over box (default: 150 characters)
+- Update: Detail information about other Plugins from ManFisher (rating, downloads, last updated, Author name/url)
+- Update: Receiving list of other Plugins from the Developer Team from an external server
+- Update: Translations (EN and DE)
+- Bugfix: Removed hard coded position of the 'ManFisher' main menu page (avoid errors with other Plugins)
+- Bugfix: Changed function name (includes.php) to be unique (avoid errors with other Plugins)
+- Bugfix: Try to replace each appearance of Footnotes in the current Post object loaded from the WordPress database
+
+= 1.5.3 =
+- Adding: Developer's homepage to the 'other Plugins' list
+- Update: Smoothy scroll to an anchor using Javascript
+- Bugfix: Set the vertical align for each cell in the Reference container to TOP
+
+= 1.5.2 =
+- Adding: Setting to enable/disable the mouse-over box
+- Adding: Current WordPress Theme to the Diagnostics sub page
+- Adding: ManFisher note in the "other Plugins" sub page
+- Update: Removed unnecessary hidden inputs from the Settings page
+- Update: Merged public CSS files to reduce the output and improve the performance
+- Update: Translations (EN and DE)
+- Bugfix: Removed the 'trim' function to allow leading and trailing whitespace in settings text boxes, thanks to @compasscare bug report.
+- Bugfix: Convert the footnotes short code to HTML special chars when adding them into the page/post editor (visual and text)
+- Bugfix: Detailed error messages if other Plugins can't be loaded. Also added empty strings as default values to avoid 'undefined'
+
+= 1.5.1 =
+- Bugfix: Broken Settings link in the Plugin listing
+- Bugfix: Translation overhaul for German
+
+= 1.5.0 =
+- Adding: Grouped the Plugin Settings into a new Menu Page called "ManFisher Plugins"
+- Adding: Sub Page to list all other Plugins of the Contributors
+- Adding: Hyperlink to manfisher.eu in the "other plugins" page
+- Update: Refactored the whole source code
+- Update: Moved the Diagnostics Sections to into a new Sub Page called "Diagnostics"
+- Bugfix: Line up Footnotes with multiple lines in the Reference container
+- Bugfix: Load text domain
+- Bugfix: Display the Footnotes button in the plain text editor of posts/pages
+
+= 1.4.0 =
+- Feature: WPML Config XML file for easy multi language string translation (WPML String Translation Support File)
+- Update: Changed e-Mail support address to the WordPress support forum
+- Update: Language EN and DE
+- Adding: Tab for Plugin Diagnostics
+- Adding: Donate link to the installed Plugin overview page
+- Adding: Donate button to the "HowTo" tab
+
+= 1.3.4 =
+- Bugfix: Settings access permission vor sub-sites
+- Bugfix: Setting 'combine identical footnotes' working as it should
+
+= 1.3.3 =
+- Update: Changed the Author name from a fictitious entity towards a real registered company
+- Update: Changed the Author URI
+
+= 1.3.2 =
+- Bugfix: More security recognizing Footnotes on public pages (e.g. ignoring empty Footnote short codes)
+- Bugfix: Clear old Footnotes before lookup new public page (only if no reference container displayed before)
+- Update: language EN and DE
+- Adding: Setting to customize the hyperlink symbol in der reference container for each footnote reference
+- Adding: Setting to enter a user defined hyperlink symbol
+
+= 1.3.1 =
+- Bugfix: Allow settings to be empty
+- Bugfix: Removed space between the hyperlink and superscript in the footnotes index
+- Adding: Setting to customize the text before and after the footnotes index in superscript
+
+= 1.3.0 =
+- Bugfix: Changed tooltip class to be unique
+- Bugfix: Changed superscript styling to not manipulate the line height
+- Bugfix: Changed styling of the footnotes text in the reference container to avoid line breaks
+- Update: Reformatted code
+- Adding: new settings tab for custom CSS settings
+
+= 1.2.5 =
+- Bugfix: New styling of the mouse-over box to stay in screen (thanks to Jori, France and Manuel345, undisclosed location)
+
+= 1.2.4 =
+- Bugfix: CSS stylesheets will only be added in FootNotes settings page, nowhere else (thanks to Piet Bos, China)
+- Bugfix: Styling of the reference container when the footnote text was too long (thanks to Willem Braak, undisclosed location)
+- Bugfix: Added a Link to the footnote text in the reference container back to the footnote index in the page content (thanks to Willem Braak, undisclosed location)
+
+= 1.2.3 =
+- Bugfix: Removed 'Warning output' of Plugins activation and deactivation function (thanks to Piet Bos, China)
+- Bugfix: Added missing meta boxes parameter on Settings page (thanks to Piet Bos, China)
+- Bugfix: Removed Widget text formatting
+- Bugfix: Load default settings value of setting doesn't exist yet (first usage)
+- Bugfix: Replacement of footnotes tag on public pages with html special characters in the content
+- Feature: Footnotes tag color is set to the default link color depending on the current Theme (thanks to Daniel Formo, Norway)
+
+= 1.2.2 =
+- Bugfix: WYSIWYG editor and plain text editor buttons insert footnote short code correctly (also if defined like html tag)
+- Update: The admin can decide which "I love footnotes" text (or not text) will be displayed in the footer
+- Adding: Buttons next to the reference label to expand/collapse the reference container if set to "collapse by default"
+- Bugfix: Replace footnote short code
+- Update: Combined buttons for the "collapse/expand" reference container
+
+= 1.2.1 =
+- Bugfix: HowTo example will be displayed correctly if a user defined short code is set
+
+= 1.2.0 =
+- Feature: New button in the WYSIWYG editor and in the plain text editor to easily implement the footnotes tag
+- Feature: Icon for the WYSIWYG-editor button
+- Feature: Pre defined footnote short codes
+- Experimental: User defined short code for defining footnotes
+- Experimental: Plugin Widget to define where the reference container should appear when set to "widget area"
+- Update: Moved footnotes 'love' settings to a separate container
+- Update: Translation for new settings and for the Widget description
+- Bugfix: Setting for the position of the "reference container" works for the options "footer", "end of post" and "widget area"
+
+= 1.1.1 =
+- Feature: Short code to not display the 'love me' slug on specific pages ( short code = [[no footnotes: love]] )
+- Update: Setting where the reference container appears on public pages can also be set to the widget area
+- Adding: Link to the wordpress.org support page in the plugin main page
+- Update: Changed plugin URL from GitHub to WordPress
+- Bugfix: Uninstall function to really remove all settings done in the settings page
+- Bugfix: Load default settings after plugin is installed
+- Update: Translation for support link and new setting option
+- Adding: Label to display the user the short code to not display the 'love me' slug
+
+= 1.1.0 =
+- Update: Global styling for the public plugin name
+- Update: Easier usage of the public plugin name in translations
+- Update: New Layout for the settings page to group similar settings to get a better overview
+- Update: Display settings submit button only if there is at least 1 editable setting in the current tab
+- Adding: Setting where the reference container appears on public pages (needs some corrections!)
+- Bugfix: Displays only one reference container in front of the footer on category pages
+
+= 1.0.6 =
+- Bugfix: Uninstall function to delete all plugin settings
+- Bugfix: Counter style internal name in the reference container to correctly link to the right footnote on the page above
+- Bugfix: Footnote hover box styling to not wrap the footnote text on mouse over
+- Update: 'footnotes love' text in the page footer if the admin accepts it and set its default value to 'no'
+
+= 1.0.5 =
+- The Plugin has been submitted to wordpress.org for review and (hopefully) publication.
+- Update: Plugin description for public directories (WordPress.org and GitHub)
+- Feature: the footnotes WordPress Plugin now has its very own CI
+  - Update: Styling
+  - Update: Settings to support the styling
+- Adding: Inspirational Screenshots for further development
+- Adding: Settings screenshot
+- Update: i18n fine-tuning
+
+= 1.0.4 =
+- Update: replacing function when footnote is a link (bugfix)
+- Footnote hover box remains until cursor leaves footnote or hover box
+- Links in the footnote hover box are click able
+- Adding: setting to allow footnotes on Summarized Posts
+- Adding: setting to tell the world you're using footnotes plugin
+- Adding: setting for the counter style of the footnote index
+  - Arabic Numbers (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, ...)
+  - Arabic Numbers leading 0 (01, 02, 03, 04, 05, ...)
+  - Latin Characters lower-case (a, b, c, d, e, ...)
+  - Latin Characters upper-case (A, B, C, D, E, ...)
+  - Roman Numerals (I, II, III, IV, V, ...)
+- Adding: a link to the WordPress plugin in the footer if the WP-admin accepts it
+- Update: translations for the new settings
+- Switch back the version numbering scheme to have 3 digits
+
+= 1.0.3 =
+- Adding: setting to use personal starting and ending tag for the footnotes
+- Update: translations for the new setting
+- Update: reading settings and fallback to default values (bugfix)
+
+= 1.0.2 =
+- Adding: setting to collapse the reference container by default
+- Adding: link behind the footnotes to automatically jump to the reference container
+- Adding: function to easy output input fields for the settings page
+- Update: translation for the new setting
+
+= 1.0.1 =
+- Separated functions in different files for a better overview
+- Adding: a version control to each file / class / function / variable
+- Adding: layout for the settings menu, settings split in tabs and not a list-view
+- Update: Replacing footnotes in widget texts will show the reference container at the end of the page (bugfix)
+- Update: translations for EN and DE
+- Changed version number from 3 digits to 2 digits
+
+= 1.0.0 =
+- First development version of the Plugin
diff --git a/footnotes.php b/footnotes.php
index b473965..d96852e 100755
--- a/footnotes.php
+++ b/footnotes.php
@@ -2,12 +2,14 @@
 /**
  * Plugin Name: footnotes
  * Plugin URI: https://wordpress.org/plugins/footnotes/
- * Description: time to bring footnotes to your website! footnotes are known from offline publishing and everybody takes them for granted when reading a magazine.
+ * Description: footnotes lets you easily add highly-customisable footnotes on your WordPress Pages and Posts.
  * Author: Mark Cheret
- * Version: 2.7.1
- * Author URI: https://cheret.org/footnotes/
+ * Author URI: https://cheret.org/footnotes
+ * Version: 2.7.0
  * Text Domain: footnotes
  * Domain Path: /languages
+ * Requires at least: 3.9
+ * Requires PHP: 7.0
  *
  * @package footnotes
  * @copyright 2021 Mark Cheret (email: mark@cheret.de)
diff --git a/readme.txt b/readme.txt
index 1f128df..0703efe 100644
--- a/readme.txt
+++ b/readme.txt
@@ -1,87 +1,72 @@
 === footnotes ===
 Contributors: mark.cheret, lolzim, rumperuu, aricura, misfist, ericakfranz, milindmore22, westonruter, dartiss, derivationfr, docteurfitness, felipelavinz, martinneumannat, matkus2, meglio, spaceling, vonpiernik, pewgeuges
+Donate link: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=6Z6CZDW8PPBBJ
 Tags: footnote, footnotes, bibliography, formatting, notes, Post, posts, reference, referencing
 Requires at least: 3.9
-Tested up to: 5.7
+Tested up to: 5.7.1
 Requires PHP: 7.0
 Stable Tag: 2.7.0
-License: GPLv3 or later
+License: GPLv3
 License URI: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html
 
+footnotes lets you easily add highly-customisable footnotes on your WordPress Pages and Posts.
+
 == Description ==
 
-**footnotes** aims to be the all-in-one solution for displaying an automatically generated list of references on your Page or Post. The Plugin ships with a set of defaults while also empowering you to control how your footnotes are being displayed.
+**footnotes** aims to be the all-in-one solution for displaying an automatically-generated list of references on your Page or Post. The Plugin ships with a set of defaults while also empowering you to control how your footnotes are being displayed.
+
 **footnotes** gives you the ability to display well-formatted footnotes on your WordPress Pages and Posts, as well as in post excerpts with fully functional tooltips if enabled.
 
-Featured on wpmudev: http://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/12-surprisingly-useful-wordpress-plugins-you-dont-know-about/ Cheers for the review, folks!
+Featured on [wpmudev][wpmudev] - cheers for the review, folks!
 
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzHaMAAJwbI
 
+[wpmudev]: http://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/12-surprisingly-useful-wordpress-plugins-you-dont-know-about/
+
 = Main Features =
-- Fully customizable **footnote** start and end shortcodes;
-- Styled tooltips supporting hyperlinks display **footnotes** or a dedicated text;
-- Responsive *Reference Container* at the end or positioned by shortcode;
-- Display the **footnotes** *Reference Container* inside a Widget;
-- Wide choice of numbering styles;
-- Freely configurable and optional backlink symbol;
-- Configure the **footnotes’** appearance by dashboard settings and Custom CSS style rules;
-- Button in both the Visual and the Text editor to add shortcodes around selection.
 
-= Example Usage =
-These are a few examples of possible ways to delimit footnotes:
-
-1. Your awesome text((with an awesome footnote))
-2. Your awesome text[ref]with an awesome footnote[/ref]
-3. Your awesome text`<fn>`with an awesome footnote`</fn>`
-4. Your awesome text`custom-start-shortcode`with an awesome footnote`custom-end-shortcode`
-
-= Where to get footnotes? =
-The current version is available on the [WordPress.org plugins platform, Footnotes](https://wordpress.org/plugins/footnotes/).
-
-= Support =
-Please report feature requests, bugs and other support related questions in the [Footnotes section of WordPress Support Forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/footnotes).
-
-Speak your mind, unload your burden, bring it up, and feel free to [post your rating and review!](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/footnotes/reviews/).
-
-= Development =
-Development of the plugin is an open process. Latest code is available in the [plugin part of WordPress SVN repository, footnotes/](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/footnotes/).
+- Fully-customizable **footnote** start and end shortcodes;
+- styled hyperlink tooltips;
+- responsive reference container with customisable position;
+- ability to display reference container inside a widget;
+- wide choice of numbering styles;
+- freely-configurable optional backlink symbol;
+- configurable footnote appearance; and
+- shortcodes button in Post editor.
 
 == Frequently Asked Questions ==
 
-= Is your Plugin a copy of footnotes x? =
+= Is your Plugin a fork of another Plugin? =
 
 No, this Plugin has been written from scratch. Of course some inspirations on how to do or how to not do things were taken from other plugins.
 
 = Your Plugin is awesome! How do I convert my footnotes if I used one of the other footnotes plugins out there? =
 
-1. For anyone interested in converting from the FD Footnotes plugin:
-Visit this swift write-up from a **footnotes** user by the name of **Southwest**: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-make-this-footnote-style?replies=6#post-5946306
-2. From what we've researched, all other footnotes Plugins use open and close shortcodes, which can be left as is. In the **footnotes** settings menu, you can setup **footnotes** to use the existing (=previously used) shortcodes. Too easy? Yippy Ki-Yey!
+* For anyone interested in converting from [FD Footnotes Plugin][fd-footnotes], see [this write-up][fd-writeup] from **footnotes** user @southwest
+* From what we've researched, all other footnotes Plugins use open and close shortcodes, which can be left as-is. In the **footnotes** settings menu, you can setup **footnotes** to use the existing (i.e., previously-used) shortcodes. Too easy? Yippy Ki-Yey!
 
-== Installation ==
-- Visit your WordPress Admin area
-- Navigate to `Plugins\Add`
-- Search for **footnotes** and find this Plugin among others
-- Install the latest version of the **footnotes** Plugin from WordPress.org
-- Activate the Plugin
+[fd-footnotes]: https://wordpress.org/plugins/fd-footnotes/
+[fd-writeup]: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-make-this-footnote-style/
 
 == Screenshots ==
-1. Find the footnotes plugin settings in the newly added "ManFisher" Menu
-2. Settings for the *References Container*
-3. Settings for **footnotes** styling
-4. Settings for **footnotes** love
-5. Other Settings
-6. The HowTo section in the **footnotes** settings
-7. Here you can see the **footnotes** Plugin at work. Isn't that plain beautiful?
+
+1. Plugin settings can be found under the default ‘Settings’ menu.
+2. Settings for the *References Container*.
+3. Settings for footnotes styling.
+4. Settings for **footnotes** love.
+5. Other Settings.
+6. The How-To section in the **footnotes** settings.
+7. Here you can see the **footnotes** Plugin at work.
 
 == Changelog ==
 
 = 2.7.1 =
-- Bugfix: Stylesheets: higher specificity, thanks to @cybermrmotte bug report.
+- Bugfix: Stylesheets: namespace collapsed CSS class, thanks to @cybermrmotte @markyz89 bug reports.
 - Dashboard: move Plugin settings under default WP Settings menu.
 - Bugfix: Footnotes: fix bug when using multiple paragraphs in footnotes.
-- Documentation: remove outdated MCI/ManFisher references
- 
+- Documentation: remove outdated MCI/ManFisher references.
+- Documentation: split changelog into seperate file.  
+
 = 2.7.0 =
 - Adding: Reference container: optionally per section by shortcode, thanks to @grflukas issue report.
 - Bugfix: Excerpts: make excerpt handling backward compatible, thanks to @mfessler bug report.
@@ -97,618 +82,25 @@ Visit this swift write-up from a **footnotes** user by the name of **Southwest**
 = 2.6.4 =
 - Bugfix: Process: remove trailing comma after last argument in multiline function calls for PHP < 7.3, thanks to @scroom @copylefter @lagoon24 bug reports.
 
-= 2.6.3 =
-- Bugfix: Reference container: debug footnotes number text color in the table header cells required for accessibility, thanks to @spaceling bug report.
-- Bugfix: Excerpts: debug the 'Yes' option by generating excerpts with footnotes on the basis of the posts, thanks to @nikelaos @martinneumannat bug reports.
-- Bugfix: Reference container: debug span elements in backlinks by removing 'event.stopPropagation()' from jQuery scroll down function, thanks to @lolzim bug report.
-- Update: Excerpts: set the default value of the debugged 'Footnotes in excerpts' setting to Yes.
-- Update: Excerpts: enable the hook 'the_excerpt' by default to make the debugged 'Footnotes in excerpts' setting effective.
-
-= 2.6.2 =
-- Bugfix: Excerpts: debug the 'No' option by generating excerpts from scratch without footnotes, thanks to @nikelaos @markcheret @martinneumannat bug reports.
-- Bugfix: Tooltips: Continue reading: debug link for AMP compatibility mode.
-
-= 2.6.1 =
-- Bugfix: Tooltips: Styling: Font color: set default value to black for maximum contrast on default white background color, thanks to 4msc bug report.
-- Bugfix: Tooltips: Styling: Background color: set default value back to white because empty doesn’t work out as expected.
-
-= 2.6.0 =
-- Adding: Reference container: get expanding and collapsing to work also in AMP compatibility mode, thanks to @westonruter code contribution.
-- Adding: Tooltips: make display work purely by style rules for AMP compatibility, thanks to @milindmore22 code contribution.
-- Bugfix: Tooltips: AMP tooltips: enable accessibility by keyboard navigation, thanks to @westonruter code contribution.
-
-= 2.5.15 =
-- Bugfix: Dashboard: General settings: Footnote start and end short codes: debug select box for shortcodes with pointy brackets.
-- Update: Dashboard: General settings: Footnote start and end short codes: add information about pointy brackets.
-
-= 2.5.14 =
-- Bugfix: Footnote delimiter short codes: fix numbering bug by cross-editor HTML escapement schema unification, thanks to @patrick_here @alifarahani8000 @gova bug reports.
-- Update: Dashboard: General settings: Footnote start and end short codes: delete comment on pointy brackets.
-
-= 2.5.13 =
-- Bugfix: Dashboard: Referrers and tooltips: Backlink symbol: debug select box by reverting identity check to equality check, thanks to @lolzim bug report.
-- Bugfix: Footnote delimiter short codes: debug closing pointy brackets in the Block Editor by accounting for unbalanced HTML escapement.
-- Update: Dashboard: General settings: Footnote start and end short codes: update information about short codes using pointy brackets.
-
-= 2.5.12 =
-- Update: Scrolling: CSS-based smooth scroll behavior (optional), thanks to @paulgpetty and @bogosavljev issue reports.
-- Bugfix: Backlinks: reflect scroll functions down/up differentiation across the template set, thanks to @bogosavljev bug report.
-- Bugfix: Referrers: Hard links: enforce scroll offset with '!important' property for surroundings specifying otherwise, thanks to @bogosavljev bug report.
-- Bugfix: Forms: prevent inadvertently toggling input elements with footnotes in their label, by optionally moving footnotes after the end of the label.
-- Bugfix: Forms: prevent inadvertently toggling input elements with footnotes in their label, by optionally disconnecting those labels.
-- Bugfix: Scroll offset: correct syntax error in the main style sheet.
-- Bugfix: Reference container: correct new syntax errors in the 8 reference container row templates.
-- Bugfix: Reference container: correct a new typo in the JavaScript reference container template.
-- Update: Dashboard: General settings: split a dedicated 'URL fragment ID configuration' metabox off the 'Scrolling behavior' metabox.
-
-= 2.5.11 =
-- Bugfix: Forms: remove footnotes from input field values, thanks to @bogosavljev bug report.
-- Bugfix: Reference container: apply web semantics to improve readability for assistive technologies, thanks to @derivationfr issue report and code contribution.
-- Bugfix: Tooltips: Styling: Background color: empty default value to adopt theme background, thanks to 4msc bug report.
-- Bugfix: Dashboard: debug text input fields by disabling quotation mark escapement, thanks to @rumperuu code contribution in the standards compliance overhaul.
-- Update: Documentation: Readme.txt: comment line below the 'Stable Tag' field to warn that this field is (unintuitively) parsed for release configuration.
-- Update: Documentation: Readme.txt: informative 'Version' field in sync with 'Version' in 'footnotes.php' for bugfix versions available ahead of the Stable Tag.
-- Update: Documentation: Readme.txt: informative 'Package Version' field in sync with the 'Package V.' field added in the 'footnotes.php' file header.
-- Update: Codebase: make PHP code comply to WordPress PHP Coding Standards requirements, thanks to @rumperuu code contribution and refactoring.
-- Bugfix: Forms: try to prevent the adverse effect of clicking footnote referrers in labels of input elements by 'event.stopPropagation()' in jQuery scroll down function.
-- Bugfix: Forms: mitigate the adverse effect of clicking footnote referrers in labels of input elements by an optional, configurable scroll down delay.
-- Bugfix: Scroll durations: mitigate the downside of delayed scrolling down by optionally enabling asymmetric scroll durations (e.g. fast down, slower up).
-- Update: Scroll delays: add a setting to configure also a scroll up delay for completeness.
-- Bugfix: Tooltips: Styling: protect padding against removal in surroundings with explicit zero padding.
-- Bugfix: Tooltips: Display: CSS transitions: fix syntax error.
-
-= 2.5.10 =
-- Bugfix: Codebase: revert to 2.5.8 with apologies (below), thanks to @little-shiva @watershare @adjayabdg @staho @frav8 @voregnev @dsl225 @alexclassroom @a223123131 @codldmac bug reports.
-
-= 2.5.9d1 =
-- Update: Codebase: accidental release of trunk/, tagged when 2.5.10 was released 3½ h later. OUR APOLOGIES, PLEASE, FOR THE 2.5.9d1 PLUGIN 'Stable Tag' MISHAP.
-
-= 2.5.8 =
-- Bugfix: Layout: support right-to-left writing direction by replacing remaining CSS values 'left' with 'start', thanks to @arahmanshaalan bug report.
-- Bugfix: Layout: support right-to-left writing direction by enabling mirrored paddings on HTML dir="rtl" pages, thanks to @arahmanshaalan bug report.
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-= 2.5.7 =
-- Bugfix: Process: fix footnote duplication by emptying the footnotes list every time the search algorithm is run on the content, thanks to @inoruhana bug report.
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-= 2.5.6 =
-- Bugfix: Reference container: optional alternative expanding and collapsing without jQuery for use with hard links, thanks to @hopper87it @pkverma99 issue reports.
-- Bugfix: Alternative tooltips: shrink width to short content.
-- Update: Documentation: slightly revise or update the plugin’s welcome page on WordPress.org.
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-= 2.5.5 =
-- Update: Stylesheets: increase speed and energy efficiency by tailoring stylesheets to the needs of the instance, thanks to @docteurfitness design contribution.
-- Bugfix: Stylesheets: minify to shrink the carbon footprint, increase speed and implement best practice, thanks to @docteurfitness issue report.
-- Bugfix: Libraries: optimize processes by loading external and internal scripts only if needed, thanks to @docteurfitness issue report.
-- Bugfix: Process: fix numbering bug impacting footnote #2 with footnote #1 close to start, thanks to @rumperuu bug report, thanks to @lolzim code contribution.
-- Update: Dashboard: add or edit descriptions to the tooltips and tooltip text delimiter settings and the backlink symbol configuration setting.
-- Update: Dashboard: decrease font size and padding of the descriptions.
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-= 2.5.4 =
-- Bugfix: Referrers: optional fixes to vertical alignment, font size and position (static) for in-theme consistency and cross-theme stability, thanks to @tomturowski bug report.
-- Bugfix: Tooltips: fix jQuery positioning bug moving tooltips out of view and affecting (TablePress tables in) some themes, thanks to @wisenilesh bug report.
-- Bugfix: Reference container, tooltips: URL wrap: enable the 'word-wrap: anywhere' rule, thanks to @rebelc0de bug report.
-- Bugfix: Reference container, tooltips: URL wrap: account for leading space in value, thanks to @karolszakiel example provision.
-- Bugfix: Dashboard: Tooltip dimensions: move from 'Tooltip position' to a dedicated metabox, thanks to @codldmac issue report.
-- Update: Libraries: jQuery Tools: replace deprecated function jQuery.isFunction(), thanks to @a223123131 bug report.
-- Bugfix: Editor button: Classic Editor text mode: try to fix uncaught reference error of “QTags is not defined”, thanks to @dpartridge bug report.
-- Update: Reference container: Hard backlinks (optional): optional configurable tooltip hinting to use the backbutton instead, thanks to @theroninjedi47 bug report.
-- Update: Tooltips: Excerpt delimiter: add configuration settings in the dashboard.
-- Bugfix: Tooltips: fix display in Popup Maker popups by correcting a coding error.
-- Bugfix: Editor button: Classic Editor text mode: correct label to singular.
-- Bugfix: Libraries: jQuery Tools: replace double equals sign discouraged in JavaScript with recommended triple equals sign.
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-= 2.5.3 =
-- Bugfix: Reference container, tooltips: URL wrap: exclude URL pattern as folder name in Wayback Machine URL, thanks to @rumperuu bug report.
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-= 2.5.2 =
-- Update: Tooltips: Excerpt delimiter: ability to display dedicated content before `[[/tooltip]]`, thanks to @jbj2199 issue report.
-- Bugfix: Localization: plugin language file name changes effective in version control system.
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-= 2.5.1 =
-- Bugfix: Hooks: support footnotes in Popup Maker popups, thanks to @squatcher bug report.
-- Bugfix: Reference container: click on label expands but also collapses, thanks to @ahmadword bug report.
-- Bugfix: Reference container: Label: cursor takes pointer shape, thanks to @ahmadword bug report.
-- Bugfix: Dashboard: Custom CSS: mention validity of legacy while visible, thanks to @rkupadhya bug report.
-- Bugfix: Dashboard: Custom CSS: make class list column formatting effective again.
-- Update: Readme/documentation: add new contributors in the file header’s Contributors field.
-- Update: Readme/documentation: update or fix URLs in Download, Support and Development sections.
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-= 2.5.0 =
-- Adding: Templates: Enable template location stack, thanks to @misfist issue report and code contribution.
-- Bugfix: Hooks: support footnotes on category pages, thanks to @vitaefit bug report, thanks to @misfist code contribution.
-- Bugfix: Footnote delimiters: Syntax validation: exclude certain cases involving scripts, thanks to @andreasra bug report.
-- Bugfix: Footnote delimiters: Syntax validation: complete message with hint about setting, thanks to @andreasra bug report.
-- Bugfix: Footnote delimiters: Syntax validation: limit length of quoted string to 300 characters, thanks to @andreasra bug report.
-- Update: Dashboard: Footnote delimiters: Syntax validation: add more information around the setting.
-- Bugfix: Dashboard: Footnote delimiters: warning about '&gt;' escapement disruption in WordPress Block Editor.
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-= 2.4.0 =
-- Adding: Footnote delimiters: syntax validation for balanced footnote start and end tag short codes.
-- Bugfix: Templates: optimize template load and processing based on settings, thanks to @misfist code contribution.
-- Bugfix: Process: initialize hard link address variables to empty string to fix 'undefined variable' bug, thanks to @a223123131 bug report.
-- Bugfix: Reference container: Label: set empty label to U+202F NNBSP for more robustness, thanks to @lukashuggenberg feedback.
-- Bugfix: Scroll offset: initialize to safer one third window height for more robustness, thanks to @lukashuggenberg bug report.
-- Bugfix: Footnote delimiters: Dashboard: remove new option involving HTML comment tags only usable in source mode.
-- Bugfix: Reference container: Row borders: adapt left padding to the presence of an optional left border.
-- Bugfix: Reference container: add class 'footnote_plugin_symbol' to disambiguate repurposed class 'footnote_plugin_link'.
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-= 2.3.0 =
-- Adding: Referrers and backlinks: optional hard links for AMP compatibility, thanks to @psykonevro issue report, thanks to @martinneumannat issue report and code contribution.
-- Bugfix: Reference container: convert top padding to margin and make it a setting, thanks to @hamshe bug report.
-- Bugfix: Referrers and backlinks: more effectively remove unwanted underline by disabling box shadow used instead of bottom border, thanks to @klusik feedback.
-- Bugfix: Dashboard: Custom CSS: swap migration Boolean, meaning 'show legacy' instead of 'migration complete', due to storage data structure constraints.
-- Update: Dashboard: Priority level: rename tab as 'Scope and priority', to account for the new alternative depending on widget_text hook activation.
-- Bugfix: Referrers and tooltips: correct scope of the line height fix to only affect the referrers, not the tooltip content.
-- Bugfix: Referrers: extend clickable area to the full line height in sync with current pointer shape.
-- Bugfix: Referrers: extend scope of the underline inhibition to be more comprehensive and consistent.
-- Bugfix: Reference container: Basic responsive page layout: edits to one of the optional stylesheets.
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-= 2.2.10 =
-- Bugfix: Reference container: add option for table borders to restore pre-2.0.0 design, thanks to @noobishh issue report.
-- Bugfix: Reference container: add missing container ID in function name in default table row template for uncombined footnotes.
-- Bugfix: Reference container, tooltips: URL wrap: support also file transfer protocol URLs.
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-= 2.2.9 =
-- Bugfix: Reference container, widget_text hook: support for multiple containers in a page, thanks to @justbecuz bug report.
-- Update: Priority levels: set widget_text default to 98 and update its description in the dashboard Priority level tab.
-- Bugfix: Reference container, tooltips: URL wrap: account for RFC 2396 allowed characters in parameter names.
-- Bugfix: Reference container, tooltips: URL wrap: exclude URLs also where the equals sign is preceded by an entity or character reference.
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-= 2.2.8 =
-- Bugfix: Reference container, tooltips: URL wrap: correctly make the quotation mark optional wrt query parameters, thanks to @spiralofhope2 bug report.
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-= 2.2.7 =
-- Bugfix: Reference container, tooltips: URL wrap: remove a bug introduced in the regex, thanks to @rjl20 @spaceling @lukashuggenberg @klusik @friedrichnorth @bernardzit bug reports.
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-= 2.2.6 =
-- Bugfix: Reference container, tooltips: URL wrap: make the quotation mark optional wrt query parameters, thanks to @spiralofhope2 bug report.
-- Adding: Templates: support for custom templates in sibling folder, thanks to @misfist issue report.
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-= 2.2.5 =
-- Bugfix: Dashboard: Footnotes numbering: add missing support for Ibid. notation to suggestions, thanks to @meglio design contribution.
-- Bugfix: Reference container: Label: make bottom border an option, thanks to @markhillyer issue report.
-- Bugfix: Reference container: Label: option to select paragraph or heading element, thanks to @markhillyer issue report.
-- Bugfix: Reference container: delete position shortcode if unused because position may be widget or footer, thanks to @hamshe bug report.
-- Update: Tooltips: Alternative tooltips: connect to position/timing settings (for themes not supporting jQuery tooltips).
-- Update: Dashboard: Tooltip position/timing settings: include alternative tooltips (for themes not supporting jQuery tooltips).
-- Bugfix: Dashboard: Tooltip position/timing settings: raise above tooltip truncation settings for better consistency.
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-= 2.2.4 =
-- Bugfix: Reference container: Backlink symbol selection: move back to previous tab “Referrers and tooltips”.
-- Bugfix: Custom CSS: make inserting existing in header depend on migration complete checkbox status.
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-= 2.2.3 =
-- Bugfix: Custom CSS: insert new CSS in the public page header element after existing CSS.
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-= 2.2.2 =
-- Bugfix: Dashboard: Link element setting only under General settings > Reference container.
-- Update: Dashboard: Custom CSS: unearth text area and migrate to dedicated tab as designed.
-- Bugfix: Reference container: edits to optional basic responsive page layout stylesheets.
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-= 2.2.1 =
-- Bugfix: Dashboard: duplicate moved settings under their legacy tab to account for data structure.
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-= 2.2.0 =
-- Adding: Reference container: support for custom position shortcode, thanks to @hamshe issue report.
-- Adding: Dashboard: Footnote delimiters: more predefined options.
-- Adding: Numbering styles: lowercase Roman numerals support.
-- Update: Priority levels: update the notice in the dashboard Priority tab.
-- Update: Dashboard: Tooltip settings: group into 3 thematic containers.
-- Update: Dashboard: Main settings: group into 3 specific containers.
-- Update: Dashboard: move link element option to the Referrers options.
-- Update: Dashboard: move URL wrap option to the Reference container options.
-- Update: Dashboard: group both Custom CSS and priority level settings under the same tab.
-- Update: Dashboard: rename tab labels 'Referrers and tooltips', 'Priority and CSS'.
-- Bugfix: Tooltips: add 'important' property to z-index to fix display overlay issue.
-- Bugfix: Localization: correct arguments for plugin textdomain load function.
-- Bugfix: Reference container, tooltips: URL wrap: specifically catch the quotation mark.
-- Adding: Footnotes mention in the footer: more options.
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-= 2.1.6 =
-- Bugfix: Priority levels: set the_content priority level to 98 to prevent plugin conflict, thanks to @marthalindeman bug report.
-- Bugfix: Tooltips: set z-index to maximum 2147483647 to address display issues with overlay content, thanks to @russianicons bug report.
-- Bugfix: Reference container, tooltips: URL wrap: fix regex, thanks to @a223123131 bug report.
-- Bugfix: Dashboard: URL wrap: add option to properly enable/disable URL wrap.
-- Update: Dashboard: reorder tabs and update tab labels.
-- Bugfix: Dashboard: remove Expert mode enable setting since permanently enabled as 'Priority'.
-- Bugfix: Dashboard: fix punctuation-related localization issue by including colon in labels.
-- Bugfix: Localization: conform to WordPress plugin language file name scheme, thanks to @nikelaos bug report.
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-= 2.1.5 =
-- Bugfix: Reference container, tooltips: URL wrap: exclude image source too, thanks to @bjrnet21 bug report.
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-= 2.1.4 =
-- Bugfix: Scroll offset: make configurable to fix site-dependent issues related to fixed headers.
-- Bugfix: Scroll duration: make configurable to conform to website content and style requirements.
-- Bugfix: Tooltips: make display delays and fade durations configurable to conform to website style.
-- Bugfix: Tooltips: Styling: fix font size issue by adding font size to settings with legacy as default.
-- Bugfix: Reference container: fix layout by optionally enqueuing additional stylesheet (depends on theme).
-- Bugfix: Reference container: fix layout issues by moving backlink column width to settings.
-- Bugfix: Reference container: make separating and terminating punctuation optional and configurable, thanks to @docteurfitness issue report and code contribution.
-- Bugfix: Reference container: Backlinks: fix stacked enumerations by adding optional line breaks.
-- Bugfix: Tooltips: Read-on button: Label: prevent line breaks.
-- Bugfix: Referrers and backlinks: Styling: make link elements optional to fix issues, thanks to @docteurfitness issue report and code contribution.
-- Bugfix: Referrers: Styling: disable hover underline.
-- Bugfix: Reference container, tooltips: fix line wrapping of URLs (hyperlinked or not) based on pattern, not link element.
-- Bugfix: Reference container: Backlink symbol: support for appending when combining identicals is on.
-- Bugfix: Reference container: Backlinks: deprioritize hover underline to ease customization.
-- Bugfix: Reference container: Backlinks: fix line breaking with respect to separators and terminators.
-- Bugfix: Reference container: Label: delete overflow hidden rule.
-- Bugfix: Reference container: Expand/collapse button: same padding to the right for right-to-left.
-- Bugfix: Reference container: Styles: re-add the class dedicated to combined footnotes indices.
-- Bugfix: Dashboard: move arrow settings from Customize to Settings > Reference container to reunite and fix issue with new heading wording.
-- Bugfix: Dashboard: Main settings: fix layout, raise shortcodes to top.
-- Bugfix: Dashboard: Tooltip settings: Truncation length: change input box type from text to numeric.
-- Update: Dashboard: Notices: use explicit italic style.
-- Bugfix: Dashboard: Other settings: Excerpt: display guidance next to select box, thanks to @nikelaos bug report.
-- Bugfix: WordPress hooks: the_content: set priority to 1000 as a safeguard.
-- Update: Dashboard: Expert mode: streamline and update description for hooks and priority levels.
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-= 2.1.3 =
-- Bugfix: Hooks: disable the_excerpt hook by default to fix issues, thanks to @nikelaos bug report.
-- Bugfix: Hooks: disable widget_text hook by default to fix accordions declaring headings as widgets.
-- Bugfix: Reference container: fix column width when combining turned on by reverting new CSS class to legacy.
-- Bugfix: Reference container: fix width in mobile view by URL wrapping for Unicode-non-conformant browsers, thanks to @karolszakiel bug report.
-- Bugfix: Reference container: table cell backlinking if index is single and combining identicals turned on.
-- Bugfix: Styling: raise Custom CSS priority to override settings.
-- Bugfix: Styling: Tooltips: raise settings priority to override theme stylesheets.
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-= 2.1.2 =
-- Bugfix: Reference container: Backlinks: no underline on hover cell when combining identicals is on.
-- Bugfix: Dashboard: priority level settings for all other hooks, thanks to @nikelaos bug report.
-- Update: Dashboard: WordPress documentation URLs of the hooks.
-- Update: Dashboard: feature description for the hooks priority level settings, thanks to @nikelaos bug report.
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-= 2.1.1 =
-- Bugfix: Referrers, reference container: Combining identical footnotes: fix dead links and ensure referrer-backlink bijectivity, thanks to @happyches bug report.
-- Bugfix: Dashboard: priority level setting for the_content hook, thanks to @imeson bug report.
-- Update: Libraries: jQuery Tools: redact (comment out) all 6 instances of deprecated function jQuery.browser(), thanks to @bjrnet21 @cconser @vyassuresh @spaceling @widecast @olivlyon @maxident bug reports.
-- Bugfix: Libraries: jQuery Tools: complete minification.
-- Bugfix: Libraries: make script loads depend on tooltip implementation option.
-- Bugfix: Libraries: jQuery UI: properly pick the libraries registered by WordPress needed for tooltips.
-- Bugfix: Reference container: fix start pages by making its display optional, thanks to @dragon013 bug report.
-- Bugfix: Reference container: Backlink symbol: make optional, not suggest configuring it to invisible, thanks to @spaceling feedback.
-- Bugfix: Reference container: Footnote number links: disable bottom border for theme compatibility.
-- Bugfix: Reference container: option to restore pre-2.0.0 layout with the backlink symbol in an extra column.
-- Bugfix: Reference container: option to append symbol (prepended by default), thanks to @spaceling code contribution.
-- Bugfix: Reference container: Table rows: fix top and bottom padding.
-- Bugfix: Referrers: new setting for vertical align: superscript (default) or baseline (optional), thanks to @cwbayer bug report.
-- Bugfix: Referrers: line height 0 to fix superscript, thanks to @cwbayer bug report.
-- Bugfix: Tooltips: optional alternative JS implementation with CSS transitions to fix configuration-related outage, thanks to @andreasra feedback.
-- Bugfix: Tooltips: add delay (400ms) before fade-out to fix UX wrt links and Read-on button.
-- Bugfix: Tooltips: fix line breaking for hyperlinked URLs in Unicode-non-compliant user agents, thanks to @andreasra bug report.
-- Bugfix: Formatting: disable overline showing in some themes on hovered backlinks.
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-= 2.1.0 =
-- Adding: Tooltips: Read-on button: Label: configurable instead of localizable, thanks to @rovanov example provision.
-- Bugfix: Referrers: disable bottom border for theme compatibility.
-- Update: Accessibility: add 'speaker-mute' class to reference container.
-- Bugfix: Dashboard: Layout: add named selectors to limit applicability of styles.
-- UPDATE: Hooks: remove 'the_post', the plugin stops supporting this hook.
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-= 2.0.8 =
-- BUGFIX: Priority level back to PHP_INT_MAX (need to get in touch with other plugins).
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-= 2.0.7 =
-- BUGFIX: Hooks: Default-disable 'the_post', thanks to @spaceling @markcheret @nyamachi @whichgodsaves @spiralofhope2 @mmallett @andreasra @widecast @ymorin007 @tashi1es bug reports.
-- Update: Set priority level back to 10 assuming it is unproblematic.
-- Update: Added backwards compatible support for legacy arrow and index placeholders in template.
-- Update: Settings defaults adjusted for better and more up-to-date tooltip layout.
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-= 2.0.6 =
-- Bugfix: Infinite scroll: debug autoload by adding post ID, thanks to @docteurfitness issue report and code contribution.
-- Bugfix: Referrers: delete vertical align tweaks, for cross-theme and user agent compatibility.
-- Bugfix: Reference container: fix line breaking behavior in footnote number clusters.
-- Bugfix: Reference container: auto-extending column to fit widest, to fix display with short note texts.
-- Bugfix: Reference container: IDs: slightly increased left padding.
-- Bugfix: Translations: fix spelling error and erroneously changed word in en_GB and en_US.
-- Bugfix: Typesetting: discard the dot after footnote numbers as not localizable (should be optional).
-- Bugfix: Reference container: Collapse button fully clickable, not sign only.
-- Bugfix: Reference container: Collapse button 'collapse' with minus sign not hyphen-minus.
-- Update: Tooltips: set display predelay to 0 for responsiveness (was 800 since 2.0.0, 400 before).
-- Update: Tooltips: set fade duration to 200ms both ways (was 200 in and 2000 out since 2.0.0, 0 in and 100 out before).
-- BUGFIX: Priority level back to PHP_INT_MAX (ref container positioning not this plugin’s responsibility).
-- Update: Scroll offset: raise percentage from 12% to a safer 20% inner window height, by lack of configurability.
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-= 2.0.5 =
-- Bugfix: Reference container: fix relative position through priority level, thanks to @june01 @imeson @spaceling bug reports, thanks to @spaceling code contribution.
-- Bugfix: Reference container: unset width of text column to fix site issues.
-- Update: Hooks: Default-enable all hooks to prevent footnotes from seeming broken in some parts.
-- Bugfix: Tooltips: Restore cursor shape 'pointer' over Read-on button after hard link removal.
-- Bugfix: Settings stylesheet: unenqueue to fix input boxes on public pages (enqueued for 2.0.4).
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-= 2.0.4 =
-- Update: Restore arrow settings to customize or disable the now prepended arrow symbol, thanks to @mmallett issue report.
-- Update: Libraries: Load jQuery UI from WordPress, thanks to @check2020de issue report.
-- Bugfix: Referrers and backlinks: remove hard links to streamline browsing history, thanks to @theroninjedi47 bug report.
-- Bugfix: Reference container: remove inconvenient left/right cellpadding.
-- Bugfix: Tooltips: improve layout with inherited font size by lower line height.
-- Bugfix: Tooltips: 'Continue reading' button: disable default underline.
-- Bugfix: Translations: review all locales (en, de, es, fr), synced ref line # with edited code.
-- Bugfix: Dashboard: fix display of two headings containing the logo.
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-= 2.0.3 =
-- Bugfix: Reference container: Self-adjusting width of ID column but hidden overflow.
-- Update: Reference container: clarify backlink semantics by prepended transitional up arrow, thanks to @mmallett issue report.
-- Bugfix: Fragment IDs: Prepended post ID to footnote number.
-- Bugfix: External stylesheets cache busting: add plugin version number argument in enqueuing function call.
-- Bugfix: Print style: prevent a page break just after the reference container label.
-- Bugfix: Print style: Hide reference collapse button.
-- Update: Reference container: Headline: remove padding before reference container label.
-- Update: Scroll offset: raise percentage from 5% to a safer 12% inner window height, by lack of setting.
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-= 2.0.2 =
-- Bugfix: Reference container: restore expand/collapse button in the template, thanks to @ragonesi bug report.
-- Bugfix: Dashboard: Custom CSS: Available selectors: fix display of the last item.
-- Bugfix: Referrers and backlinks: restore default link color on screen, set color to inherit in print.
-- Bugfix: Referrers: disable text decoration underline by default, enable underline on hover.
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-= 2.0.1 =
-- Bugfix: Reference container: enforce borderless table cells, thanks to @ragonesi bug report.
-- Update: Translations: revised fr_FR.
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-= 2.0.0 =
-- Major contributions taken from WordPress user pewgeuges, all details here https://github.com/media-competence-institute/footnotes/blob/master/README.md:
-- Update: **symbol for backlinks** removed
-- Update: hyperlink moved to the reference number
-- Update: Tooltips: fix disabling bug by loading jQuery UI library, thanks to @rajinderverma @ericcorbett2 @honlapdavid @mmallett @twellve_million bug reports, thanks to @vonpiernik code contribution.
-- Update: Libraries: jQuery Tools: add condition whether deprecated function jQuery.browser() exists, thanks to @vonpiernik code contribution.
-- Bugfix: Localization: correct function call apply_filters() with all required arguments after PHP 7.1 promoted warning to error, thanks to @matkus2 bug report and code contribution.
-- Bugfix: footnote links script independent
-- Bugfix: Get the “Continue reading” link to work in the mouse-over box
-- Bugfix: Debug printed posts and pages
-- Bugfix: Display of combined identical notes
-- Update: Adjusted scrolling time and offset
-- Bugfix: Reference container: no borders around footnotes, thanks to @ragonesi bug report.
-- Bugfix: Mouse-over box display timing
-- Update: Translations: revised de_AT, de_DE, en_GB, en_US, es_ES
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-= 1.6.6 =
-- Beginning of translation to French
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-= 1.6.5 =
-- Bugfix: Improve widgets registration, thanks to @felipelavinz code contribution.
-- Update: Fix for deprecated PHP function create_function(), thanks to @psykonevro @daliasued bug reports, thanks to @felipelavinz code contribution.
-- Update: The CSS has been modified in order to show the tooltip numbers a little less higher than text
-- Bugfix: Dashboard: fix error on demo under the Preview tab.
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-= 1.6.4 =
-- Update: replace deprecated function WP_Widget() with recommended __construct(), thanks to @dartiss code contribution.
-- Bugfix: Fixed occasional bug where footnote ordering could be out of sequence
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-= 1.6.3 =
-- Bugfix: We were provided a fix by a user named toma. footnotes now works in sub-folder installations of WordPress
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-= 1.6.2 =
-- Update: Changed the Preview tab
-- Bugfix: Html tags has been removed in the Reference container when the excerpt mode is enabled
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-= 1.6.1 =
-- Update: Translations
-- Bugfix: Move to anchor
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-= 1.6.0 =
-- **IMPORTANT**: Improved performance. You need to Activate the Plugin again. (Settings won't change!)
-- Adding: Setting to customize the mouse-over box shadow
-- Adding: Translation: United States
-- Adding: Translation: Austria
-- Adding: Translation: Spanish (many thanks to Pablo L.)
-- Update: Translations (de_DE and en_GB)
-- Update: Changed Plugins init file name to improve performance (Re-activation of the Plugin is required)
-- Update: ManFisher note styling
-- Update: Tested with latest nightly build of WordPress 4.1
-- Bugfix: Avoid multiple IDs for footnotes when multiple reference containers are displayed
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-= 1.5.7 =
-- Adding: Setting to define the positioning of the mouse-over box
-- Adding: Setting to define an offset for the mouse-over box (precise positioning)
-- Bugfix: Target element to move down to the reference container is the footnote index instead of the arrow (possibility to hide the arrow)
-- Bugfix: Rating calculation for the 'other plugins' list
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-= 1.5.6 =
-- **IMPORTANT**: We have changed the html tag for the superscript. Please check and update your custom CSS.
-- Adding: .pot file to enable Translations for everybody
-- Adding: Settings to customize the mouse-over box (color, background color, border, max. width)
-- Update: Translation file names
-- Update: Translation EN and DE
-- Update: Styling of the superscript (need to check custom CSS code for the superscript)
-- Update: Description of CSS classes for the 'customize CSS' text area
-- Bugfix: Removed 'a' tag around the superscript for Footnotes inside the content to avoid page reloads (empty href attribute)
-- Bugfix: Avoid Settings fallback to its default value after submit an empty value for a setting
-- Bugfix: Enable multiple WP_Post objects for the_post hook
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-= 1.5.5 =
-- Adding: Expert mode setting
-- Adding: Activation and Deactivation of WordPress hooks to look for Footnotes (expert mode)
-- Adding: WordPress hooks: 'the_title' and 'widget_title' (default: disabled) to search for Footnote short codes
-- Bugfix: Default value for the WordPress hook the_post to be disabled (adds Footnotes twice to the Reference container)
-- Bugfix: Activation, Deactivation and Uninstall hook class name
-- Bugfix: Add submenu pages only once for each ManFisher WordPress Plugin
-- Bugfix: Display the Reference container in the Footer correctly
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-= 1.5.4 =
-- Adding: Setting to enable an excerpt of the Footnotes mouse-over box text (default: disabled)
-- Adding: Setting to define the maximum length of the excerpt displayed in the mouse-over box (default: 150 characters)
-- Update: Detail information about other Plugins from ManFisher (rating, downloads, last updated, Author name/url)
-- Update: Receiving list of other Plugins from the Developer Team from an external server
-- Update: Translations (EN and DE)
-- Bugfix: Removed hard coded position of the 'ManFisher' main menu page (avoid errors with other Plugins)
-- Bugfix: Changed function name (includes.php) to be unique (avoid errors with other Plugins)
-- Bugfix: Try to replace each appearance of Footnotes in the current Post object loaded from the WordPress database
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-= 1.5.3 =
-- Adding: Developer's homepage to the 'other Plugins' list
-- Update: Smoothy scroll to an anchor using Javascript
-- Bugfix: Set the vertical align for each cell in the Reference container to TOP
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-= 1.5.2 =
-- Adding: Setting to enable/disable the mouse-over box
-- Adding: Current WordPress Theme to the Diagnostics sub page
-- Adding: ManFisher note in the "other Plugins" sub page
-- Update: Removed unnecessary hidden inputs from the Settings page
-- Update: Merged public CSS files to reduce the output and improve the performance
-- Update: Translations (EN and DE)
-- Bugfix: Removed the 'trim' function to allow leading and trailing whitespace in settings text boxes, thanks to @compasscare bug report.
-- Bugfix: Convert the footnotes short code to HTML special chars when adding them into the page/post editor (visual and text)
-- Bugfix: Detailed error messages if other Plugins can't be loaded. Also added empty strings as default values to avoid 'undefined'
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-= 1.5.1 =
-- Bugfix: Broken Settings link in the Plugin listing
-- Bugfix: Translation overhaul for German
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-= 1.5.0 =
-- Adding: Grouped the Plugin Settings into a new Menu Page called "ManFisher Plugins"
-- Adding: Sub Page to list all other Plugins of the Contributors
-- Adding: Hyperlink to manfisher.eu in the "other plugins" page
-- Update: Refactored the whole source code
-- Update: Moved the Diagnostics Sections to into a new Sub Page called "Diagnostics"
-- Bugfix: Line up Footnotes with multiple lines in the Reference container
-- Bugfix: Load text domain
-- Bugfix: Display the Footnotes button in the plain text editor of posts/pages
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-= 1.4.0 =
-- Feature: WPML Config XML file for easy multi language string translation (WPML String Translation Support File)
-- Update: Changed e-Mail support address to the WordPress support forum
-- Update: Language EN and DE
-- Adding: Tab for Plugin Diagnostics
-- Adding: Donate link to the installed Plugin overview page
-- Adding: Donate button to the "HowTo" tab
-
-= 1.3.4 =
-- Bugfix: Settings access permission vor sub-sites
-- Bugfix: Setting 'combine identical footnotes' working as it should
-
-= 1.3.3 =
-- Update: Changed the Author name from a fictitious entity towards a real registered company
-- Update: Changed the Author URI
-
-= 1.3.2 =
-- Bugfix: More security recognizing Footnotes on public pages (e.g. ignoring empty Footnote short codes)
-- Bugfix: Clear old Footnotes before lookup new public page (only if no reference container displayed before)
-- Update: language EN and DE
-- Adding: Setting to customize the hyperlink symbol in der reference container for each footnote reference
-- Adding: Setting to enter a user defined hyperlink symbol
-
-= 1.3.1 =
-- Bugfix: Allow settings to be empty
-- Bugfix: Removed space between the hyperlink and superscript in the footnotes index
-- Adding: Setting to customize the text before and after the footnotes index in superscript
-
-= 1.3.0 =
-- Bugfix: Changed tooltip class to be unique
-- Bugfix: Changed superscript styling to not manipulate the line height
-- Bugfix: Changed styling of the footnotes text in the reference container to avoid line breaks
-- Update: Reformatted code
-- Adding: new settings tab for custom CSS settings
-
-= 1.2.5 =
-- Bugfix: New styling of the mouse-over box to stay in screen (thanks to Jori, France and Manuel345, undisclosed location)
-
-= 1.2.4 =
-- Bugfix: CSS stylesheets will only be added in FootNotes settings page, nowhere else (thanks to Piet Bos, China)
-- Bugfix: Styling of the reference container when the footnote text was too long (thanks to Willem Braak, undisclosed location)
-- Bugfix: Added a Link to the footnote text in the reference container back to the footnote index in the page content (thanks to Willem Braak, undisclosed location)
-
-= 1.2.3 =
-- Bugfix: Removed 'Warning output' of Plugins activation and deactivation function (thanks to Piet Bos, China)
-- Bugfix: Added missing meta boxes parameter on Settings page (thanks to Piet Bos, China)
-- Bugfix: Removed Widget text formatting
-- Bugfix: Load default settings value of setting doesn't exist yet (first usage)
-- Bugfix: Replacement of footnotes tag on public pages with html special characters in the content
-- Feature: Footnotes tag color is set to the default link color depending on the current Theme (thanks to Daniel Formo, Norway)
-
-= 1.2.2 =
-- Bugfix: WYSIWYG editor and plain text editor buttons insert footnote short code correctly (also if defined like html tag)
-- Update: The admin can decide which "I love footnotes" text (or not text) will be displayed in the footer
-- Adding: Buttons next to the reference label to expand/collapse the reference container if set to "collapse by default"
-- Bugfix: Replace footnote short code
-- Update: Combined buttons for the "collapse/expand" reference container
-
-= 1.2.1 =
-- Bugfix: HowTo example will be displayed correctly if a user defined short code is set
-
-= 1.2.0 =
-- Feature: New button in the WYSIWYG editor and in the plain text editor to easily implement the footnotes tag
-- Feature: Icon for the WYSIWYG-editor button
-- Feature: Pre defined footnote short codes
-- Experimental: User defined short code for defining footnotes
-- Experimental: Plugin Widget to define where the reference container should appear when set to "widget area"
-- Update: Moved footnotes 'love' settings to a separate container
-- Update: Translation for new settings and for the Widget description
-- Bugfix: Setting for the position of the "reference container" works for the options "footer", "end of post" and "widget area"
-
-= 1.1.1 =
-- Feature: Short code to not display the 'love me' slug on specific pages ( short code = [[no footnotes: love]] )
-- Update: Setting where the reference container appears on public pages can also be set to the widget area
-- Adding: Link to the wordpress.org support page in the plugin main page
-- Update: Changed plugin URL from GitHub to WordPress
-- Bugfix: Uninstall function to really remove all settings done in the settings page
-- Bugfix: Load default settings after plugin is installed
-- Update: Translation for support link and new setting option
-- Adding: Label to display the user the short code to not display the 'love me' slug
-
-= 1.1.0 =
-- Update: Global styling for the public plugin name
-- Update: Easier usage of the public plugin name in translations
-- Update: New Layout for the settings page to group similar settings to get a better overview
-- Update: Display settings submit button only if there is at least 1 editable setting in the current tab
-- Adding: Setting where the reference container appears on public pages (needs some corrections!)
-- Bugfix: Displays only one reference container in front of the footer on category pages
-
-= 1.0.6 =
-- Bugfix: Uninstall function to delete all plugin settings
-- Bugfix: Counter style internal name in the reference container to correctly link to the right footnote on the page above
-- Bugfix: Footnote hover box styling to not wrap the footnote text on mouse over
-- Update: 'footnotes love' text in the page footer if the admin accepts it and set its default value to 'no'
-
-= 1.0.5 =
-- The Plugin has been submitted to wordpress.org for review and (hopefully) publication.
-- Update: Plugin description for public directories (WordPress.org and GitHub)
-- Feature: the footnotes WordPress Plugin now has its very own CI
-  - Update: Styling
-  - Update: Settings to support the styling
-- Adding: Inspirational Screenshots for further development
-- Adding: Settings screenshot
-- Update: i18n fine-tuning
-
-= 1.0.4 =
-- Update: replacing function when footnote is a link (bugfix)
-- Footnote hover box remains until cursor leaves footnote or hover box
-- Links in the footnote hover box are click able
-- Adding: setting to allow footnotes on Summarized Posts
-- Adding: setting to tell the world you're using footnotes plugin
-- Adding: setting for the counter style of the footnote index
-  - Arabic Numbers (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, ...)
-  - Arabic Numbers leading 0 (01, 02, 03, 04, 05, ...)
-  - Latin Characters lower-case (a, b, c, d, e, ...)
-  - Latin Characters upper-case (A, B, C, D, E, ...)
-  - Roman Numerals (I, II, III, IV, V, ...)
-- Adding: a link to the WordPress plugin in the footer if the WP-admin accepts it
-- Update: translations for the new settings
-- Switch back the version numbering scheme to have 3 digits
-
-= 1.0.3 =
-- Adding: setting to use personal starting and ending tag for the footnotes
-- Update: translations for the new setting
-- Update: reading settings and fallback to default values (bugfix)
-
-= 1.0.2 =
-- Adding: setting to collapse the reference container by default
-- Adding: link behind the footnotes to automatically jump to the reference container
-- Adding: function to easy output input fields for the settings page
-- Update: translation for the new setting
-
-= 1.0.1 =
-- Separated functions in different files for a better overview
-- Adding: a version control to each file / class / function / variable
-- Adding: layout for the settings menu, settings split in tabs and not a list-view
-- Update: Replacing footnotes in widget texts will show the reference container at the end of the page (bugfix)
-- Update: translations for EN and DE
-- Changed version number from 3 digits to 2 digits
-
-= 1.0.0 =
-- First development Version of the Plugin
-
 == Upgrade Notice ==
-to upgrade our plugin is simple. Just update the plugin within your WordPress installation.
-To cross-upgrade from other footnotes plugins, there will be a migration assistant in the future
+ 
+= 2.7.1 =
+This release resolves a CSS class conflict with the commonly-used `.collapsed` class.
+
+== Usage ==
+
+These are a few examples of possible ways to delimit your footnotes:
+
+1. Your awesome text((with an awesome footnote))
+2. Your awesome text[ref]with an awesome footnote[/ref]
+3. Your awesome text&lt;fn&rt;with an awesome footnote&lt;/fn&gt;
+4. Your awesome text`custom-start-shortcode`with an awesome footnote`custom-end-shortcode`
+
+== Support ==
+
+Please report feature requests, bugs and other support related questions in the [WordPress Support Forum][wp-support-forum].
+
+Speak your mind, unload your burden, bring it up, and feel free to [post your rating and review!][ratings].
+
+[wp-support-forum]: https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/footnotes
+[ratings]: https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/footnotes/reviews/