Footnotes Made Easy
by Patrick Lumumba · WordPress.org page · Website
Footnotes Made Easy has 2,000+ active installs on WordPress.org and 63,582 downloads all time. We have tracked it since September 4, 2026; download trends appear after 30 days of data. The last update was on August 15, 2026, tested up to WordPress 7.1.
Footnotes Made Easy at a glance
Is Footnotes Made Easy well maintained?
Features
The feature list from the plugin's own readme on WordPress.org, trimmed to the essentials.
- Simple inline syntax — wrap text in (( )) to create a footnote anywhere in a post or page
- Combine identical footnotes automatically
- Paginated post support with manual start number control
- Reference a previous footnote by number using ((ref:1))
- Pretty tooltips — show footnote content on hover using jQuery
- Suppress footnotes on specific page types (home, archives, search, feeds)
- Exclude footnotes from specific post categories or custom URLs
- Dashboard with live usage stats; footnote counts across all posts and pages
- Export/import Footnotes Made Easy settings across different sites
- Multisite support; network-managed mode or per-subsite override
- Compatible with the Classic Editor and the Gutenberg block editor
- Lots of configuration options
Footnotes Made Easy reviews and ratings
40 reviews on WordPress.org, with the most recent ones as their authors posted them.
40 reviews
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A Precious Plugin
I found this plugin from a Youtuber and have tried it out for an hour and find this plugin has become indispensable to me. Looking to get the Pro version when it comes out.
lwjkjr425 -
Font size too large
Hello. Thank you to the developers for this plugin. It's very useful and easy to use. But... Since the last update, the font size has been too large. I preferred the font size in previous versions. Is it possible to change the size?
mcmidon -
Great Plugin
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.
Greg Taylor -
Plugin not updated anymore
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.
JCV -
What do I do with all my footnotes now?
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.
yolandal -
Very good plugin
Simple and easy to use, works well without bugs.
slightestclue
Footnotes Made Easy alternatives
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FD Footnotes 1,000+ installs · 4.5
Details
Allows post authors to easily add and manage footnotes in posts and pages.
The full description, screenshots and every review live on the WordPress.org page.
Tags
- bibliography
- citations
- footnotes
- formatting
- reference
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- Version
- 3.2.2
- Last updated
- Aug 15, 2026
- First published
- Jan 12, 2017
- Requires WordPress
- 6.0
- Tested up to
- 7.1
- Requires PHP
- 7.4
- Pricing
- Free on WordPress.org
Footnotes Made Easy FAQ
What does Footnotes Made Easy do?
According to its WordPress.org readme, Footnotes Made Easy offers Simple inline syntax — wrap text in (( )) to create a footnote anywhere in a post or page, Combine identical footnotes automatically, Paginated post support with manual start number control, Reference a previous footnote by number using ((ref:1)) and Pretty tooltips — show footnote content on hover using jQuery.
How many active installs does Footnotes Made Easy have?
WordPress.org reports 2,000+ active installs for Footnotes Made Easy as of September 7, 2026.
Is Footnotes Made Easy still maintained?
Yes. The last release was on August 15, 2026 and it is tested up to WordPress 7.1.
Does Footnotes Made Easy have good support?
On the WordPress.org forum, 1 of 1 recent support threads for Footnotes Made Easy are marked resolved. That is the developer's free support; a paid version usually comes with its own channel.
Is Footnotes Made Easy free?
Footnotes Made Easy is free to install from WordPress.org. Many plugins also sell a paid version or add-ons.