footnotes lets you easily add highly-customisable footnotes on your WordPress Pages and Posts.

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<p><strong>footnotes</strong> aims to be the all-in-one solution for displaying an automatically-generated list of references on your Page or Post. The Plugin ships with a set of defaults while also empowering you to control how your footnotes are being displayed.</p>
<p><strong>footnotes</strong> gives you the ability to display well-formatted footnotes on your WordPress Pages and Posts, as well as in post excerpts with fully functional tooltips if enabled.</p>
<p>Featured on <a href="http://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/12-surprisingly-useful-wordpress-plugins-you-dont-know-about/" rel="nofollow ugc">wpmudev</a> – cheers for the review, folks!</p>
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<h4>Main Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Fully-customizable <strong>footnote</strong> start and end shortcodes;</li>
<li>styled hyperlink tooltips;</li>
<li>responsive reference container with customisable position;</li>
<li>ability to display reference container inside a widget;</li>
<li>wide choice of numbering styles;</li>
<li>freely-configurable optional backlink symbol;</li>
<li>configurable footnote appearance; and</li>
<li>shortcodes button in Post editor.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Usage</h3>
<p>These are a few examples of possible ways to delimit your footnotes:</p>
<ol>
<li>Your awesome text((with an awesome footnote))</li>
<li>Your awesome text[ref]with an awesome footnote[/ref]</li>
<li>Your awesome text<fn&rt;with an awesome footnote</fn></li>
<li>Your awesome text<code>custom-start-shortcode</code>with an awesome footnote<code>custom-end-shortcode</code></li>
</ol>
<h3>Support</h3>
<p>Please report feature requests, bugs and other support related questions in the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/footnotes">WordPress Support Forum</a>.</p>
<p>Speak your mind, unload your burden, bring it up, and feel free to <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/footnotes/reviews/">post your rating and review!</a>.</p>


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