Is Footnotes Made Easy free?

Yes, Footnotes Made Easy is free to use. It is available as a free plugin on WordPress.org.

How many websites use Footnotes Made Easy?

Footnotes Made Easy has 2.0K+ active installations as tracked by WordPress.org.

What are the best Footnotes Made Easy alternatives?

Popular alternatives to Footnotes Made Easy include Easy Footnotes, Modern Footnotes, FD Footnotes Plugin. You can compare them side-by-side on our comparison pages.

Does Footnotes Made Easy work with the latest WordPress?

Footnotes Made Easy has been tested up to WordPress 6.9.4. It requires WordPress 4.6+ and PHP 7.4+.

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Footnotes Made Easy

Name: Footnotes Made Easy
Rating: 4.6 (38 reviews)
Author: Patrick Lumumba

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

By Patrick Lumumba·Footnotes·Free

4.6(38 reviews)

·2.0K+ active installs·Updated 4 months ago

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As of April 2026, Footnotes Made Easy is a WordPress footnotes plugin with 2.0K+ active installations and a 4.6/5 rating from 38 reviews. It has been downloaded 55K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.6+ and PHP 7.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2017. Downloads are up 15% this week. Top alternative: Easy Footnotes.

4.6/538 reviews

2.0K+active installs

55K+total downloads

9 yearssince 2017

Overview

Footnotes Made Easy is a simple, but powerful, method of adding footnotes to your posts and pages.

Key features include…

Simple footnote insertion via double parentheses
Combine identical notes
Solution for paginated posts
Suppress Footnotes on specific page types
Option to display ‘pretty’ tooltips using jQuery
Lots of configuration options
And much, much more!

Footnotes Made Easy is a fork of WP Footnotes, a plugin by Simon Elvery which was abandoned some years ago.

Please visit the Github page for the latest code development, planned enhancements and known issues.

Getting Started

Creating a footnote is incredibly simple – you just need to include your footnote in double parentheses, such as this…

This is a sentence ((and this is your footnote)).

The footnote will t…

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Ratings & Reviews

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Recent Reviews

Great Plugin

by Greg Taylor·1 year ago

Very easy to set up and understand. Makes creating useful, interactive footnotes a total breeze. I found I did not have to leave a space after the last character before the double parentheses for a footnote to work, so am not sure why the caveat is in the procedures and it’s grammatically correct anyway to have no space between the text and the footnote number. In any case, the plugin is highly recommended.

This topic was modified 1 year, 1 month ago by Greg Taylor. Reason: Clarification

Plugin not updated anymore

by JCV·1 year ago

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.

What do I do with all my footnotes now?

by yolandal·2 years ago·4 replies

Hello David, I’m sorry to hear you had to discontinue this plugin. But I have a problem now, as I’ve used footnotes on several of my blogs, the code is now shown in the text which gives a lot of clutter.

Are you aware of another plugin which has the same setup, so I can keep using the shortcode I created? (I used a double (( — text — )) )

Thank you,

Yolanda

Update: I’ve changed the priority to 6 and now it’s working again. But I’m still worried about the future.

This topic was modified 2 years ago by yolandal. Reason: update

Very good plugin

by slightestclue·2 years ago

Simple and easy to use, works well without bugs.

Excellent plugin – simple yet versatile.

by stephencactus·2 years ago

This plugin has been excellent – and deserves its five stars. It works very well. I use it for adding academic style bibliographic references to web pages. I remain impressed with (a) the simplicity of this plugin for inserting footnotes, (b) the way it automatically numbers footnotes, (c) the way it manages duplicated references – such that only one footnote is created in these cases, and (d) the way footnotes themselves can contain a link. It makes adding and amending footnotes effortless.

There was a minor hiatus about four months ago in support for this plugin but everything has been working perfectly since (as it was before). Both developers (David Artiss and Patrick Lumumba) were responsive at that time.