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My Marginalia

Description

The My Marginalia plugin for WordPress lets you format content with notes or comments aligned float:left or float:right to the main body of your content.

marginalia (n): notes in the margin of a book, manuscript, or letter

The plugin’s original use case was to present the show notes for a webcast with timestamps linked to the specific portion of the video being discussed. Similar uses might include providing commentary to accompany a transcript (noting all the lies in a politician’s speech, perhaps?).

This plugin takes advantage of the Gutenberg editor that became the new standard with the release of WordPress 5.0. The “notes” field shows in the editor as a RichText component with standard formatting controls, including the ability to add links. The main content (the subject of the marginalia commentary) can include multiple blocks such as paragraphs, headings, images, and other media.

This project was bootstrapped with Create Guten Block.

Header image: Rafel Bosch, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Credits

My Marginalia
Copyright (C) 2019 David F. Carr

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

See the GNU General Public License at <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html>.

Screenshots

  • A show notes example.
  • Formatting a note to be displayed next to an associated set of content blocks within the Marginalia wrapper.
  • The Marginalia block appears on the Layouts tab in Gutenberg.

Blocks

This plugin provides 1 block.

  • Marginalia

Installation

  1. Upload the entire marginalia folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory (or fetch using the WordPress dashboard tools).
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.

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Contributors and Developers

“My Marginalia” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

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Change Log

1.0.6

  • Updated NPM

1.0.5

  • Updated NPM modules

1.0.2

  • Added settings screen where you can set the default sidebar width and position.
  • Updated NPM modules to address security bugs in Javascript libraries

1.0.0

  • Initial release.