footnotes

time to bring footnotes to your website! footnotes are known from offline publishing and everybody takes them for granted when reading a magazine.

Author:Mark Cheret (profile at wordpress.org)
WordPress version required:3.9
WordPress version tested:5.7.8
Plugin version:2.7.3
Added to WordPress repository:20-05-2014
Last updated:25-04-2021
Warning! This plugin has not been updated in over 2 years. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress.
Rating, %:92
Rated by:68
Plugin URI:https://wordpress.org/plugins/footnotes/
Total downloads:130 720
Active installs:7 000+
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footnotes 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.

footnotes 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.

Featured on wpmudev – cheers for the review, folks!

Main Features

  • Fully-customizable footnote start and end shortcodes;
  • styled hyperlink tooltips;
  • responsive reference container with customisable position;
  • ability to display reference container inside a widget;
  • wide choice of numbering styles;
  • freely-configurable optional backlink symbol;
  • configurable footnote appearance; and
  • shortcodes button in Post editor.

Usage

These are a few examples of possible ways to delimit your footnotes:

  1. Your awesome text((with an awesome footnote))
  2. Your awesome text[ref]with an awesome footnote[/ref]
  3. Your awesome text<fn&rt;with an awesome footnote</fn>
  4. Your awesome textcustom-start-shortcodewith an awesome footnotecustom-end-shortcode

Support

Please report feature requests, bugs and other support related questions in the WordPress Support Forum.

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