side-matter

Side Matter

Turns footnotes into sidenotes, magically aligning each note in the sidebar next to its corresponding reference in the text.

41.9 opportunity score Open evidence Open API Open on WordPress.org

100active installs

9.2Kdownloads

4.6rating

0unresolved threads

20complaints analyzed

15praise analyzed

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complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.87

Conflict with Open Graph NEXTgen plugin

Conflict with Open Graph NEXTgen plugin: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

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Conflict with Open Graph NEXTgen plugin Side-matter is a great plugin!

complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.87

Plugin does not work properly with Orao theme from Live Composer

Plugin does not work properly with Orao theme from Live Composer: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

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Plugin does not work properly with Orao theme from Live Composer Hello and thank you for that great plugin !

complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.86

Side Matter not appearing in Genesis theme

Side Matter not appearing in Genesis theme: users show compatibility, support, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

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Side Matter not appearing in Genesis theme I am new to wordpress and recently began using the genesis framework with a child theme for publishing a blog version of a book.

complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.86

A possible workaround for those with alignment issues

A possible workaround for those with alignment issues: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

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A possible workaround for those with alignment issues If you are having problems with alignment issues (as I was) please note: This plugin relies on parent containers that are EXPLICITLY delcared position relative in the CSS.

mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.84

Preventing scroll to top

Preventing scroll to top: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

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Preventing scroll to top In order to prevent users finding that the page scrolls to the top if they accidentally click on a footnote number within the main text, I have implemented the following code: a.side-matter:link { pointer-events: none; cursor: default; } This works in every modern browser except IE11, although IE11 claims to support the pointer-event

complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.81

Sidenotes Doubling

Sidenotes Doubling: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

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Sidenotes Doubling I’m having the Doubling Issue another user described with the Implicit theme ( http://themeforest.net/item/implicit-fullscreen-blazingfast-magazine-theme/8180897 ) I switched themes back to a stock theme without disabling any other plugins and managed to have Side Matter work fine.

complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.81

JS enqueue is a little greedy on the admin side

JS enqueue is a little greedy on the admin side: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

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JS enqueue is a little greedy on the admin side So in addition to possibly creating an option to incorporate the ability to choose base parents selectors for both refs and notes, you will really want to change your side-matter.php file to be more selective as to when it loads its admin.js file.

complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.81

Sidenotes not appearing in sidebar

Sidenotes not appearing in sidebar: users show compatibility, missing feature, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

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Sidenotes not appearing in sidebar Hi, I would like to use the SideMatter plugin on our theme.

complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.75

Blockquote mislaignment

Blockquote mislaignment: users show bugs, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

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Thank you for your time The page I need help with: [ log in to see the link] Hi everybody, side matter is mislaigning sme of the side notes that I have included in blockquote.

complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.75

Ref attributes?

Ref attributes?: users show missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

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I wanted to know if there is some way to indicate a specific reference to use format style none.

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Student Result or Employee Database praise owner · intel 75.1 · weakness 66.6

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Academic Blogger's Toolkit praise owner · intel 73.4 · weakness 64.2

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JP Students Result Management System praise owner · intel 63.8 · weakness 49.5

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Commons In A Box praise owner · intel 63.1 · weakness 46.3

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19 collected complaint signal(s) setup bugs 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: course creators, membership businesses, and agencies · Wedge: monitor education access rules, course delivery, subscriber billing, and support-heavy failures

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Footnotation praise owner · intel 58.4 · weakness 43.5

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Class Blogs watchlist · intel 55.1 · weakness 58.5

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Educare – Students & Result Management System praise owner · intel 53.8 · weakness 32.0

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4 collected complaint signal(s) support missing feature 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity

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Scholar Publications Fetcher watchlist · intel 13.7 · weakness 13.3

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praise Development status – open source? support · 2024-01-16T01:14:16+00:00 · medium severity · academic

Development status – open source?: users praise quality, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: Hi this looks like a great plugin, is it open source or would you be willing to at a collaborator to take care of it?

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complaint sidenotes not aligning when using tables support · 2021-02-09T13:37:52+00:00 · medium severity · academic

sidenotes not aligning when using tables: users show support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: van ‘t Hul The page I need help with: [ log in to see the link] When i use site-matter in tables the note wil not align, the just sit at the top of the sidebar.

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complaint Blockquote mislaignment support · 2018-04-01T15:19:07+00:00 · medium severity · academic

Blockquote mislaignment: users show bugs, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Thank you for your time The page I need help with: [ log in to see the link] Hi everybody, side matter is mislaigning sme of the side notes that I have included in blockquote.

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complaint Note positioning in responsive layouts support · 2017-01-09T01:56:54+00:00 · medium severity · academic

Note positioning in responsive layouts: users show support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Note positioning in responsive layouts I tried a solution found in https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adjusting-for-mobile-browsers/ but doesn’t work –I had to disable positioning altogether to work when the sidenotes behave like footnotes in narrower sizes (but I miss it in the wider sizes).

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complaint Plugin does not work properly with Orao theme from Live Composer support · 2016-10-22T11:54:31+00:00 · medium severity · academic

Plugin does not work properly with Orao theme from Live Composer: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Plugin does not work properly with Orao theme from Live Composer Hello and thank you for that great plugin !

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complaint sidematter reference notes are tripling support · 2016-06-24T04:12:56+00:00 · medium severity · academic

sidematter reference notes are tripling: users show compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: reference for test one https://wordpress.org/plugins/side-matter/ I deleted the cache locally and in wordpress with the same result.

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neutral sidematter reference notes ignore new lines support · 2016-06-24T04:07:11+00:00 · medium severity · academic

sidematter reference notes ignore new lines: neutral conversation with limited structured signal.

Evidence: sidematter reference notes ignore new lines Sidematter reference notes ignore new lines. When a new line is created after a sidematter reference note in brackets, the text of the new line is not displayed on a new line. To work around this problem, I insert the HTML code for a space ( ). TEST —- The following text in the WordPress text (not visual) editor: l

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praise Great IDEA!! Can you port it to Wikimedia? support · 2016-01-10T18:42:27+00:00 · medium severity · academic

Great IDEA!! Can you port it to Wikimedia?: users praise quality, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: Great IDEA!!

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complaint JS enqueue is a little greedy on the admin side support · 2015-11-23T03:19:03+00:00 · medium severity · academic

JS enqueue is a little greedy on the admin side: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: JS enqueue is a little greedy on the admin side So in addition to possibly creating an option to incorporate the ability to choose base parents selectors for both refs and notes, you will really want to change your side-matter.php file to be more selective as to when it loads its admin.js file.

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complaint A possible workaround for those with alignment issues support · 2015-11-22T17:44:30+00:00 · medium severity · academic

A possible workaround for those with alignment issues: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: A possible workaround for those with alignment issues If you are having problems with alignment issues (as I was) please note: This plugin relies on parent containers that are EXPLICITLY delcared position relative in the CSS.

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complaint misalignment support · 2015-09-02T14:59:49+00:00 · medium severity · academic

misalignment: users show compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: misalignment Hi, I’m using Side Matter and it’s perfect.

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complaint Numerals not showing support · 2015-07-07T18:12:18+00:00 · medium severity · academic

Numerals not showing: users show support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: On one of them, though, the numerals aren’t showing up – instead, it looks like they’re being replaced with a thin line above: http://www.culturemaven.com/blog/2015/06/17/daily-chronicle-culture-maven-goes-paperless/ any help you could give would be appreciated.

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neutral table in notes goes wrong support · 2015-07-06T21:28:00+00:00 · medium severity · academic

table in notes goes wrong: neutral conversation with limited structured signal.

Evidence: table in notes goes wrong When I’m make in the note a table this is shown in the note and shown in the post. How to fix it? see: http://www.dboverijssel.nl/archieven/4671 note 24, 25, and 26. https://wordpress.org/plugins/side-matter/ When I’m make in the note a table this is shown in the note and shown in the post. How to fix it? see: http://www.dboverijsse

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complaint Pilcrow – side notes don't show up support · 2015-05-27T09:44:07+00:00 · medium severity · academic

Pilcrow – side notes don't show up: users show compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: It rarely, if ever, pushed boundaries or courted controversy, and until it "<a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=jump+the+shark">jumped the shark</a>," in an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4ZGKI8vpcg">episode</a> that spawned the phrase "jumping the shark," it was a funny family TV program of the type rarely seen these days on n

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complaint Feature request: Compatibility with Multimarkdown Footnotes support · 2015-05-04T18:06:59+00:00 · medium severity · academic

Feature request: Compatibility with Multimarkdown Footnotes: users show missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Feature request: Compatibility with Multimarkdown Footnotes Really, like the plugin, but it would be even better if it could work with existing multimarkdown footnotes rather than requiring its own dedicated shortcode.

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praise Adjust position of sidematter title support · 2015-05-01T11:11:47+00:00 · medium severity · academic

Adjust position of sidematter title: users praise quality, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: Adjust position of sidematter title Sidematter is great and is displaying my references perfectly.

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praise Annotations as marginalia (5 stars) review · 2015-03-24T17:26:46+00:00 · medium severity · academic

Annotations as marginalia: users show support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Annotations as marginalia For my site , I’ve been waiting for annotations as marginalia (sidenotes) for a long time and I am so grateful to the developers for coding this up and sharing this WordPress plug-in within WordPress’s open-source add-on ecosystem.

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neutral Footnotes disappear and reappear as I scroll the page on iPhone support · 2015-01-24T00:51:20+00:00 · medium severity · academic

Footnotes disappear and reappear as I scroll the page on iPhone: neutral conversation with limited structured signal.

Evidence: Footnotes disappear and reappear as I scroll the page on iPhone I have a couple of WordPress sites on different web servers, and see this problem on both of them, in addition to some other sites using this plugin. On the iPhone screen, the footnotes will disappear and reappear when I scroll the page with my finger. So it looks like the footnotes go away for

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complaint Ref attributes? support · 2014-12-25T23:32:03+00:00 · medium severity · academic

Ref attributes?: users show missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: I wanted to know if there is some way to indicate a specific reference to use format style none.

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neutral Left sidebar support · 2014-12-22T13:09:33+00:00 · medium severity · academic

Left sidebar: neutral conversation with limited structured signal.

Evidence: Left sidebar This plugin doesn’t work on left sidebar, just on the right. https://wordpress.org/plugins/side-matter/ This plugin doesn’t work on left sidebar, just on the right. https://wordpress.org/plugins/side-matter/

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