Footnotes for WordPress enables easy-to-use fancy footnotes for WordPress posts.
As of April 2026, Footnotes for WordPress is a WordPress footnotes plugin with 100 active installations and a 4/5 rating from 1 reviews. It has been downloaded 10K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 2.9+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2010. Last updated 9 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Easy Footnotes.
Footnotes for WordPress is a simple plugin designed with a simple aim in mind: to make
it dead-easy to include decently-formatted footnotes in posts and pages on your
WordPress blog.
The syntax is roughly based on the common MediaWiki syntax for footnotes, but uses the
WordPress shortcode conventions. So, to include a footnote with the text “Text,” you use:
This is footnoted.[ref]Text[/ref]
And that’s all you need to do. When you add a footnote, Footnotes for WordPress will
create a note marker at the point that the foonote appears in the text, and includes
the text of the footnote in a styled list of notes down the page. When a reader clicks
on the link in a JavaScript-enabled browser, a script included with the plugin will
create a small bubble inline in the text, whi…
| WordPress | 2.9+ requiredTested up to 4.7.33 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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