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.
As of April 2026, Simple Footnotes Editor Button is a WordPress tinyMCE plugin with 10 active installations and a 3/5 rating from 2 reviews. It has been downloaded 2.4K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2013. Last updated 12 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Black Studio TinyMCE Widget.
The Simple Footnotes 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.
| WordPress | 3.0+ requiredTested up to 3.5.2 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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