David Artiss

Patrick Lumumba

Divi Banks

Stoil Dobreff

Christopher Ocen

vikmark

Milimo Emmanuel

<p>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.</p>
<p><strong>Full documentation is available at <a href="https://docs.altvisewp.com/footnotes-made-easy/" rel="nofollow ugc">docs.altvisewp.com/footnotes-made-easy</a></strong></p>
<p><strong>Key features:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Simple inline syntax — wrap text in <code>(( ))</code> to create a footnote anywhere in a post or page</li>
<li>Combine identical footnotes automatically</li>
<li>Paginated post support with manual start number control</li>
<li>Reference a previous footnote by number using <code>((ref:1))</code></li>
<li>Pretty tooltips — show footnote content on hover using jQuery</li>
<li>Suppress footnotes on specific page types (home, archives, search, feeds)</li>
<li>Exclude footnotes from specific post categories or custom URLs</li>
<li>Dashboard with live usage stats; footnote counts across all posts and pages</li>
<li>Export/import Footnotes Made Easy settings across different sites</li>
<li>Multisite support; network-managed mode or per-subsite override</li>
<li>Compatible with the Classic Editor and the Gutenberg block editor</li>
<li>Lots of configuration options</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Footnotes Made Easy is a fork of <a href="https://github.com/drzax/wp-footnotes" title="Github - wp-footnotes" rel="nofollow ugc">WP Footnotes</a>, a plugin by Simon Elvery.</strong></p>
<p><strong>For the latest code, planned enhancements and known issues, visit the <a href="https://github.com/altvisewp/footnotes-made-easy/" title="Github" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub page</a>.</strong></p>
<h3>Getting Started</h3>
<span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Bl9p2-lSZMU?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe></span>
<p>Creating a footnote is simple; wrap your footnote text in double parentheses:</p>
<pre><code>This is a sentence ((and this is your footnote)).
</code></pre>
<p>The footnote will appear at the bottom of your post or page, automatically numbered and linked.</p>
<p><strong>Important:</strong> Include a space before your opening double parentheses or the footnote will not work.</p>
<h3>Settings</h3>
<p>The settings page is organised into four tabs:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Display</strong> — Control footnote identifier style, back-link format, header and footer text, and tooltip behaviour.</li>
<li><strong>Behaviour</strong> — Configure combining identical footnotes, back-link position, and processing priority.</li>
<li><strong>Suppress</strong> — 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</li>
<li><strong>Advanced</strong> — Change the opening and closing delimiters.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Paginated Posts</h3>
<p>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 <code></code> marker:</p>
<pre><code>
</code></pre>
<p>Replace <code>5</code> with the number you want the first footnote on that page to start at.</p>
<h3>Referencing</h3>
<p>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:</p>
<pre><code>((ref:1))
</code></pre>
<p>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.</p>
<h3>Multisite Support</h3>
<p>On WordPress multisite networks, the plugin can be configured from the network admin in two modes:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Network managed</strong> — all settings controlled centrally; the Footnotes menu is hidden from subsite admins</li>
<li><strong>Subsite override</strong> — each subsite admin can manage their own footnote settings independently</li>
</ul>
<h3>Available in 8 Languages</h3>
<p>Footnotes Made Easy is fully internationalised and ready for translation.</p>
<p><strong>Thanks to the following translators:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/dartiss/" rel="nofollow ugc">David Artiss</a>, English (UK)</li>
<li><a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/markscottrobson/" rel="nofollow ugc">Mark Robson</a>, English (UK)</li>
<li><a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/yayannabelle/" rel="nofollow ugc">Annabelle W</a>, English (UK)</li>
<li><a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/maboroshin/" rel="nofollow ugc">maboroshin</a>, Japanese</li>
<li><a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/wplmillet/" rel="nofollow ugc">Laurent MILLET</a>, French (France)</li>
<li><a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/cansmile/" rel="nofollow ugc">B. Cansmile Cha</a>, Korean</li>
<li><a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/danbilabs/" rel="nofollow ugc">danbilabs</a>, Korean</li>
<li><a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/danbilabs/" rel="nofollow ugc">denelan</a>, Dutch</li>
<li><a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/psmits1567/" rel="nofollow ugc">Peter Smits</a>, Dutch</li>
<li><a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/nekojonez/" rel="nofollow ugc">Pieterjan Deneys</a>, Dutch (Belgium)</li>
<li><a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/alexvgrey/" rel="nofollow ugc">Alex Grey</a>, Russian</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>To add a translation, visit the <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/footnotes-made-easy" title="Translating WordPress" rel="nofollow ugc">Translating WordPress</a> page.</strong></p>

Footnotes Made Easy


Amazing work and great that the developer continued the former footnotes plugin - very much appreciate it. The plugin works like a charm. THANKS!


GREAT


Adding footnotes is really easy, and they have nice links that go back to the footnote in the post.


Makes it really easy to create footnotes


Happy with this plugin as a seamless replacement for an old footnotes plugin that had stopped working with php8.


Works great

This plugin was great. Then the original developer got busy and passed it to another developper, who in months hasn't fixed small bugs that users takes the time to report, claims to be PHP 8.2 compliant, which is not. I believe the new owner was the wrong choice.

Plugin not updated anymore

Allows post authors to easily add and manage footnotes in posts and pages.

Katie

<p><a href="http://katieseaborn.com/plugins/" title="Zotpress for WordPress" rel="nofollow ugc">Zotpress</a> brings publication broadcasting and scholarly blogging to WordPress through <a href="http://zotero.org/" title="Zotero" rel="nofollow ugc">Zotero</a>, a free, cross-platform reference manager.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Displays your personal and group Zotero items through in-text citations, bibliographies, and searchable libraries</li>
<li>Supports thumbnail images through WordPress’s Media Library and Open Library</li>
<li>Supports selective CSS styling via IDs and classes</li>
<li>Provides a range of additional features, such as allowing visitors to download citations</li>
<li>And more!</li>
</ul>
<p>Compatible with Firefox, Safari, Chrome, and IE9. Made with jQuery, jQuery UI, jQuery doTimeout, Live Query, OAuth, and <a href="https://openlibrary.org/" title="Open Library" rel="nofollow ugc">Open Library</a>.</p>
<p>Special thanks to Joe Alberts for substantial contributions to the code, comprehensive testing, and design ideation. Thanks also to contributors Jeremy Varnham (@jvarn13), Christopher Cheung, Jason S., Chris Wentzloff, Karljürgen Feuerherm (@feuerherm), Mark Dingemanse (@codeispoetry), Jörg Mechnich (jmechnich@github), Tomas Risberg, @ericcorbett2, and @timtom for their code contributions, testing, and guidance. Finally, my sincere gratitude goes out to all who have donated in support of this plugin.</p>
<p>Please note that this plugin is on semi-hiatus, with updates expected about 1-3 times a year.</p>
<h4>Requirements</h4>
<p>jQuery included in your theme (Zotpress will do this for you if it isn’t already included), and an HTTP request method supported by WordPress enabled on your server: cURL, fopen with Streams (PHP 5), or fsockopen. In your server config file, X-Frame-Options should be set to SAMEORIGIN. Optional: OAuth enabled on your server.</p>


Zotpress

Works really well in combination with both user and group libraries. Impressed by a lot of things, from account management to how easy it is to create all sorts of bibliographies. Really good UI in the back-end, too, with excellent help & FAQ pages integrated with an overview of available settings and shortcodes. Impressive and well worth a donation!

Would love an option to de-JS ZotPress output (i.e. some way to cache more than just the bibliographic data) and trigger refresh manually (e.g., when a library or collection is updated). Right now sorting and adding headings is all done in JS post-load, resulting in delays. But many publication lists are pretty much static, so could be rendered and cached in HTML once the basic settings are clear.

Easy to use and feature-rich bibliographies; impressive, well worth a donation

Zotpress displays your Zotero citations on WordPress.

Footnotes Made Easy vs Zotpress