Footnotes Made Easy

Footnotes Made Easy is a simple but powerful plugin for adding footnotes to your WordPress posts and pages. Wrap any text in double parentheses, and it becomes a footnote; automatically numbered, linked, and displayed at the bottom of your content. Full documentation is available at docs.altvisewp.com/footnotes-made-easy Key features: Simple inline syntax — wrap text in (( )) to create a footnote anywhere in a post or page Combine identical footnotes automatically Paginated post support with manual start number control Reference a previous footnote by number using ((ref:1)) Pretty tooltips — show footnote content on hover using jQuery Suppress footnotes on specific page types (home, archives, search, feeds) Exclude footnotes from specific post categories or custom URLs Dashboard with live usage stats; footnote counts across all posts and pages Export/import Footnotes Made Easy settings across different sites Multisite support; network-managed mode or per-subsite override Compatible with the Classic Editor and the Gutenberg block editor Lots of configuration options Upgrade to Footnotes Made Easy Pro Need to cite sources properly? Footnotes Made Easy Pro turns your footnotes into a full academic referencing system, built right on top of the free plugin you already use. Pro features: Academic citations — format references in APA, MLA, and Chicago styles automatically 10 source types — books, journals, websites, newspapers, films, theses, and more, each formatted correctly for every style DOI & ISBN auto-fetch — paste a DOI or ISBN and the source details (title, author, publisher, year) fill in for you Reusable Citation Library — save a reference once and reuse it across any post; search, filter, and insert in seconds Gutenberg sidebar panel — manage, edit, and insert footnotes directly from the block editor sidebar Priority support — direct help from the AltviseWP team Everything in the free plugin keeps working exactly as it does today — Pro simply adds the citation and referencing tools on top. Get Footnotes Made Easy Pro &rarr; Footnotes Made Easy is a fork of WP Footnotes, a plugin by Simon Elvery. For the latest code, planned enhancements and known issues, visit the GitHub page. Getting Started Creating a footnote is simple; wrap your footnote text in double parentheses: This is a sentence ((and this is your footnote)). The footnote will appear at the bottom of your post or page, automatically numbered and linked. Important: Include a space before your opening double parentheses or the footnote will not work. Settings The settings page is organised into four tabs: Display — Control footnote identifier style, back-link format, header and footer text, and tooltip behaviour. Behaviour — Configure combining identical footnotes, back-link position, and processing priority. Suppress — Choose which page types (home, archives, search, feeds, previews) should not display footnotes. Also suppress by post type and exclude footnotes from specific URLs or post categories Advanced — Change the opening and closing delimiters. Paginated Posts By default, each page of a paginated post restarts footnote numbering from 1. To maintain a continuous sequence, add a start number tag between each <!--nextpage--> marker: <!--startnum=5--> Replace 5 with the number you want the first footnote on that page to start at. Referencing To reference a previous footnote a second time, you can either repeat the exact same text (recommended — works with the Combine Identical Footnotes option) or use the number reference syntax: ((ref:1)) Note: number referencing does not work across pages in a paginated post, and risks pointing to the wrong footnote if new footnotes are inserted before it. The exact-text method is more robust. Multisite Support On WordPress multisite networks, the plugin can be configured from the network admin in two modes: Network managed — all settings controlled centrally; the Footnotes menu is hidden from subsite admins Subsite override — each subsite admin can manage their own footnote settings independently Available in 8 Languages Footnotes Made Easy is fully internationalised and ready for translation. Thanks to the following translators: David Artiss, English (UK) Mark Robson, English (UK) Annabelle W, English (UK) maboroshin, Japanese Laurent MILLET, French (France) B. Cansmile Cha, Korean danbilabs, Korean denelan, Dutch Peter Smits, Dutch Pieterjan Deneys, Dutch (Belgium) Alex Grey, Russian To add a translation, visit the Translating WordPress page.