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 →

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.

Read the full description on the official page →