New: Numbered footnote feature — [footnote]…[/footnote] shortcode and Footnote toolbar format. Each footnote is auto-numbered in order of appearance and renders as a superscript marker with hover popup.
New: [footnotes] shortcode and Footnotes by CiteKit block — renders the full numbered list at the end of the post with back-links to each marker. Explicit list mode also supported: [footnotes]one; two; three[/footnotes].
New: Tooltip dashed/dotted underline styles. [tooltip tip=”Term”]Definition[/tooltip] renders the tip attribute as the visible inline term (dashed underline by default; dotted available via style=”dotted”) and the content between the tags as the definition shown on hover. Symbol-marker mode (style=”*”, †, etc.) remains fully supported and backward compatible — in symbol mode the shortcode content continues to serve as the popup.
New: “Footnotes by CiteKit” and “Bibliography by CiteKit” block names in the block inserter.
New: Getting Started page – side-by-side feature cards explaining citations, tooltips, footnotes, and bibliographies, with a decision guide for which to use.
Improved: Inline citation markers now render at baseline text level (e.g. [1]) instead of superscript, matching IEEE convention and creating clear visual hierarchy with footnote markers (which remain superscript). This makes citations and footnotes instantly distinguishable at a glance.
Improved: Editor caret behavior after inserting a citation, tooltip, or footnote – a zero-width space is now appended so the cursor lands cleanly after the inserted token instead of getting stuck.
3.0.0
New: Bibliography block — render a formatted bibliography directly from the block editor with style and heading controls in the sidebar.
New: CiteKit block category in the Gutenberg inserter.
New: Citation inline format — toolbar button on paragraphs, headings, list items, and quote blocks.
New: Tooltip inline format — toolbar button to wrap selected text in a hover tooltip with custom marker symbol.
New: [tooltip style=”†”] attribute — set a custom superscript marker per tooltip. Defaults to † if omitted. Backward-compatible with all existing [tooltip] usage.
New: Getting Started page with step-by-step slideshow.
Improved: CiteBox metabox now displays truncated UUIDs alongside custom IDs so auto-assigned references are clearly distinguishable.
Improved: All library queries now find both shortcode-based and block-based citations.
Removed: Add Reference from Library button — references are created naturally by inserting citations in posts.
2.0.0
New: Redesigned Reference Library with sort, search, and status filtering.
New: Link Health Checker — checks whether source URLs are live or broken, with per-citation status badges.
New: Settings page (CiteKit Library → Settings) — set a default bibliography style and heading used by all [bibliography] shortcodes site-wide.
New: Remove from Post — remove a citation from a specific post directly from the Used In modal.
New: post_count column — tracks how many posts reference each citation; unused records are cleaned up automatically.
Improved: ID column added to CiteBox metabox.
Fixed: [bibliography] heading now correctly uses the saved default title in all rendering paths.
1.0.0
Initial release.
Shortcode support for [cite], [bibliography], and [tooltip].
