Lance Willett

JQuery Hover Footnotes lets you add footnotes with qualifiers of you’re choosing, then dynamically displays them on hover-over. So you can easily add footnotes to a post by wrapping them in qualifiers, then they will dynamically display in a jQuery hover popup when the user mouses-over the footnote link. There is also a settings page where you can change options like the footnote formatting.
Features
-Numbers, Words, or ANSI characters can be used as footnote reference marks 
-Footnotes can be superscript, subscript, or normal text 
-Footnotes can be placed in page footer or hidden 
-Popup/Hover footnote can be turned on and off.
Usage
To anchor the footnote reference mark/number, use {{FOOTNOTE_NUMBER}}. Then just embrace the actual footnote text with double brackets [[FOOTNOTE_NUMBER]] Footnote text [[FOOTNOTE_NUMBER]]. The footnote text can be placed either inline or at the bottom of the post, the plugin will find them and auto place them in the footer area.
So this is what you would write in the post window…
This is my post and I want to add a footnote{{1}} in the text. By default it will appear as a superscript.
[[1]] My Footnote. [[1]]
see the plugin webpage or the screenshots for examples.
visit the sites page <a href='http://restoredisrael.org/blog/961/footnote-plugin-test-page/' rel="nofollow ugc">here</a>
<h3>Credits</h3>
This plugin is a fork and combination of several other plugins.
PHP- 
stratos at <a href='http://www.stratos.me/wp-plugins/yafootnotes/' rel="nofollow ugc">YaFootnotes</a> and <a href='http://anxietypanichealth.com/' rel="nofollow ugc">Mike Nichols</a>
<h3>Contact</h3>
Developed by Lance Weaver. 
To contact, leave a comment on the plugin <a href='http://restoredisrael.org/blog/961/footnote-plugin-test-page/' rel="nofollow ugc">website</a>

jQuery Hover Footnotes

JQuery Hover Footnotes lets you add footnotes with qualifiers of you're choosing, then dynamically displays them on hover-over.

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The <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-footnotes/" rel="ugc">Simple Footnotes</a> plugin allows you to add simple, elegant footnotes on your site.
This tiny plugin makes it incredibly simple to create those footnotes, leaving nothing to teach the site’s editors (no need to explain shortcodes or special syntaxes). It adds a button to the TinyMCE editor toolbar in the second row (i.e. the “Kitchen Sink”) that users can click to open a textarea overlay where they can enter the footnote content and then insert it into the editor with the proper syntax.
<h3>Translation</h3>
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Simple Footnotes Editor Button

Add a button to the TinyMCE editor toolbar to make it easy for users to add footnotes with the proper syntax for the Simple Footnotes plugin.

jQuery Hover Footnotes vs Simple Footnotes Editor Button