Solution

• Install the plugin Footnotes Made Easy.
• If still necessary, install the plugin Better Search Replace.
• Open Better Search Replace.
• Select all tables
• Insert [efn_note] into the search field.
• Insert a blank followed by two opened brackets into the replace field.
• Make a test run.
• Let the replacements be executed.
• Insert [/efn_note] into the search field.
• Insert )) into the replacement field.
• Make a test run.
• Let the replacements be executed.
• Delete the plugin Easy Footnotes.

Background

The plugin Easy Footnotes has 2 peculiarities. First, it sets the footnote text in the title of the link: <a title="Here is the footnote text">. So, the ability to design the footnote via CSS is very limited. Second, it builds the reference in accordance with the pattern <a ...><sup>Reference</sup></a>. This makes the underline appear on the line baseline, not directly under the superscript reference — which looks ugly. And replacing it via CSS is just not possible.

Remains the obligatory question about the FOSS status of Footnotes Made Easy: It’s ‘GPL‑2.0‑or-later’ licensed¹. So my Open-Source eyes say: all is well.

And how does this …

… support our migration to bootScore? Well, if a web designer must abandon her current WordPress theme, she needs a replacement. A free ‘off-the-shelf’ theme, she probably wants to personalize. First a bit cosmetically, then in terms of the gray value of her pages, multilingualism and internal reference techniques and linking. Finally, she perhaps enables special footers, a secondary menu or a copyright notice before checking the SEO features of the selected theme. This is a way that this post supports too.

1. cf. readme.txt), and the last update is from November 2022. ((cf. Developers

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