10 Best Footnotes Made Easy Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
Footnotes Made Easy has 2,000+ active installs on WordPress.org. These 10 plugins share its category or its tags on WordPress.org, are actively maintained, and each has at least 100 active installs. They are ordered by how closely they match, not by our opinion.
The 10 closest alternatives to Footnotes Made Easy
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Modern Footnotes
Closest match4.8 (32) 6,000+ active installsAdd inline footnotes to your posts. On desktop, the footnotes will appear as tooltips. On mobile, the footnote will expand beneath the text.
Shares the citations, footnotes tags on WordPress.org. About 3 times the installs, last updated 14 days ago.
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4.8 (25) 2,000+ active installsManage your publications with teachPress
Shares the bibliography tag on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, last updated April 11, 2026.
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4.9 (66) 2,000+ active installsZotpress displays your Zotero citations on WordPress.
Shares the bibliography tag on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, last updated 30 days ago.
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4.3 (28) 300+ active installsA plugin extending the functionality of Wordpress for academic blogging.
Shares the bibliography tag on WordPress.org. 300+ installs against 2,000+, no update since October 24, 2019.
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FD Footnotes Plugin
4.5 (21) 1,000+ active installsAdd elegant looking footnotes to your posts simply and naturally.
Shares the footnotes tag on WordPress.org. About half the installs, no update since June 6, 2016.
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4.8 (33) 8,000+ active installsEasy Footnotes lets you quickly and easily add footnotes throughout your WordPress posts using a simple shortcode in the text editor.
Shares the footnotes tag on WordPress.org. About 4 times the installs, last updated 12 days ago.
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4.3 (33) 10,000+ active installsLets you use raw HTML or any other code in your posts. You can also disable smart quotes and other automatic formatting on a per-post basis.
Shares the formatting tag on WordPress.org. About 5 times the installs, no update since November 11, 2024.
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4.9 (32) 9,000+ active installsEasily disable the default wpautop filter on a post by post basis.
Shares the formatting tag on WordPress.org. About 4.5 times the installs, no update since April 7, 2021.
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4.6 (65) 9,000+ active installsAdjust an image's margins and border with ease in the Visual editor.
Shares the formatting tag on WordPress.org. About 4.5 times the installs, no update since February 10, 2018.
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Advanced Rich Text Tools for Gutenberg
4.8 (20) 3,000+ active installsAdditional tools for rich text fields in Gutenberg.
Shares the formatting tag on WordPress.org. About 1.5 times the installs, no update since February 27, 2019.
Switching from Footnotes Made Easy: common questions
What is the best alternative to Footnotes Made Easy?
Modern Footnotes is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 6,000+ active installs with a 4.8 out of 5 rating.
Which Footnotes Made Easy alternative has the most users?
Raw HTML, with 10,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which Footnotes Made Easy alternative is rated highest?
Zotpress, rated 4.9 out of 5 by 66 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these Footnotes Made Easy alternatives free?
Every plugin listed here is free to install from WordPress.org. Where WordPress.org marks a plugin as commercial, the developer also sells a paid version or add-ons, and that is shown on each plugin.
How are alternatives chosen?
Automatically, from WordPress.org data: plugins that share a category top 10 with Footnotes Made Easy score highest, then plugins that appear in the same WordPress.org rankings, then plugins with the same tags, weighted so rare tags count more than common ones. Plugins by the same author and plugins rated under 4.0 are left out.
How we choose these alternatives
Nothing on this page is picked by hand. Every day we walk the whole WordPress.org directory, then score every plugin against Footnotes Made Easy on three signals: sharing a category top 10 counts most, then appearing in the same WordPress.org rankings, then carrying the same tags, with rare tags counting for more than common ones like "wordpress". Plugins by the same author are excluded, so an author's own add-ons cannot fill the list, and so is anything rated below 4.0 or with fewer than 100 active installs. The ten highest scores are what you see, in that order. Full methodology.
The bottom line
Modern Footnotes is the closest match to Footnotes Made Easy by the data we track, and Raw HTML has the widest reach with 10,000+ active installs. Easy Footnotes shipped the most recent release, on August 26, 2026. The list is rebuilt every day from WordPress.org, so a plugin that stops being maintained drops out on its own.
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