A while back it was pointed out that the cool little footnotes plugin I wrote was always using the same ID names to link back and forth. It incremented the number of each footnote in a post, but started again from 1 for the next post. The problem with this of course is that on the main page all the posts are combined together and the footnote links wind up jumping to the wrong place.

Fortunately, I managed to convince Doug1 that it was a worth project and yesterday he fixed the problem for me. Now the footnote IDs have the current milliseconds appended which makes them “unique enough”. I can’t really see me, as the only author of this blog, adding two footnotes to different posts at the exact same millisecond.

Sadly, I still need to fight WordPress to stop it converting the links to be absolute so that they work in newsreaders too.

1 – Who doesn't blog often enough↩