Provide readers additional information in the form of a footnote symbol linked at the bottom of a page
Various words and phrases require detailed description, but also unnecessary require space in your content. With our easy Footnotes plugin you can give detailed clarifications to your users and a stylish Footnotes Symbol will link the word to the explanation.
Focus readers to your content, but give them also an option to find text clarifications. Improve user reading experience while increasing search engine optimization with detailed content. Consider a footnote as a roadmap for referencing users to valuable content.
Easily create, elegant, simpler yet modern Footnotes in WordPress
The WordPress Footnotes plugin supports adding footnotes to any page or post on your WordPress site to add reference information and to clarify the text.
The footnote plugin helps you create endnotes, references, footnotes, citations, bibliography notes, pictures and other media.
Using the WordPress Footnotes Plugin
- Add user friendly footnotes to any page or post on your WordPress site
- Add citations for post sources
- Build an index of all your site footnotes or citations
- Export and import footnotes between sites
- Build a database of footnotes for selected terms or content and use them across your site
WordPress Footnotes Use Case Examples
- News & Blog Sites – Enhance readability and increase user reading time with term explanations. Boost your SEO without sacrificing user experience.
How the WordPress Footnotes Plugin Works
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Footnotes Plugin Basic Features
- Easily add elegant footnotes from every page or post
- Footnote list at the bottom of the post
Footnotes Plugin Premium Features
Please check the user guide to learn more about this plugin
Add Footnotes and Citations to WordPress posts – Add modern footnotes with the click of a button inside any post or page. Each footnote can be defined to appear only locally, globally or on selected posts or pages. View screenshot: CM Footnotes – Meta box in each page or post | |
Footnotes Style – Footnotes can be placed anywhere in the post or page using a shortcode. The styling of the footnote is defined in the plugin settings. View screenshot: CM Footnote – Example of footnotes in a post | |
Featured Image – Add featured images to every footnote. These are displayed below the footnote title and on the float box, making your articles much more attractive | |
Footnotes Index – All footnotes that appear on the site can be displayed on the index page with all the related articles in which the footnotes are used. View Screenshot: Footnotes Index Page | |
Float Window – Trigger a float window with image and description when clicking the tooltip symbol. The float box is persistent and customizable, enhancing navigation | |
Footnotes Metabox – Easily define footnotes and citations within a customizable meta box on your page or post. View screenshot: CM Footnotes – Meta box in each page or post | |
Footnotes Range – Define where your footnotes are displayed across your WordPress site. It can be shown only in one post, a group of posts or across all the site. View screenshot: CM Footnotes – Footnote properties | |
Local Footnotes using a Shortcode – You can use a shortcode on any post or page to add a local footnote which will only appear on that post and will not be recorded in the footnotes database table | |
Add Images to footnotes – Add a featured image to each footnote. The featured image will show up next to the footnote at the bottom of the post | |
Import and Export – Export and import your footnotes across sites | |
Custom posts support – Support any custom post | |
Synonym support – Add a synonym to any footnote term, so once the synonym is found, it will be linked to your footnote | |
Paged post support – If the page includes pagination, footnotes will also support linking to the correct post page |
Footnotes Plugin Editions and Pricing
Basic
Limited Functionality
- Unlimited Footnotes
- Global Footnotes
- Add Images to footnotes
- Import and Export
- Custom posts support
- Footnotes index
- Place footnotes anywhere in post
- Customize footnotes
- Manage footnotes in site
- Synonyms support
- Build a local footnote using shortcode
Pro
30-Day Money Back Guarantee
- Unlimited Footnotes
- Local or Global Footnotes
- Add Images to footnotes
- Import and Export
- Custom posts support
- Footnotes index
- Place footnotes anywhere in post
- Customize footnotes
- Manage footnotes in site
- Synonyms support
- Build a local footnote using shortcode
Footnotes Plugin Frequently Asked Questions
Please check the user guide to learn more about this plugin
Can I add the same footnote on multiple posts?
Can I export my footnotes for another site?
Yes. The plugin comes with a built-in import and export tool which makes it easy to move footnotes between sites.
To learn more about exporting and importing footnotes with the built in export/import feature read our Help guide by clicking here
Can I find a central location for my footnotes?
Can I customize the appearance of footnotes?
Can I add images to my footnotes.
Yes. Every footnote can have one featured image, which will be shown under the title in the footnote area or inside the float box.
Will footnotes appear on all pages and posts?
Where will my footnotes be displayed?
Can I add footnotes to any blog post?
Footnotes Plugin Online Demo
This demo shows how an article can include footnotes at the bottom of it and links to the footnotes in the terms found in the articleArticle with Footnotes Live Demo | |
This demo shows how an article can include footnotes at the bottom of it and links to the footnotes in the terms found in the articleSecond Article with Footnotes | |
![]() ![]() ![]() | This demo shows an index containing all footnotes used in the site with reference to the article in which they have been usedFootnotes Index Demo |
Footnotes Plugin Gallery
Back-end Gallery
Customer Reviews for the Footnotes Plugin
- Excellent pluginI installed this plugin and had an issue with it, the problem was solved within hours and I’m now upgrading to the pro version for the extra features. Excellent plugins with outstanding service.. Thanks guys..
- Highly recommended!I got the CM Footnotes Pro version of the plugin after comparing several other plugins. It has several advantages like ability to display an index of all footnotes on site and also ability to use footnote on several posts across the site. Highly recommended if you need such support for your articles and posts
- Great plugin !Was looking for something like that. One of my client wanted to have footnotes for all posts and pages on his site. I spent couple of hours for searching and testing best plugin and there it is. Really easy to use for everyone.Fully recommend, my client is also happy 🙂 So what else do I need !Thank you and looking forward new features !
Footnotes Plugin Release Notes
Version 1.5.3 6th Oct 2020
- Minor fixes
Version 1.5.2 3rd Oct 2020
- Added Gutenberg support
Version 1.5.1 20th April 2020
- Added new option for footnote behavior, added float window and tooltip.
- Fixed some minor issues
- Updated the licensing package
Version 1.4.10 5th Sep 2019
- Fixed minor issues
Version 1.4.9 2nd July 2019
- Added text alignment option in footnote description text
Version 1.4.8 16th June 2019
- Added footnotes preview in Post Edit mode
Version 1.4.7 2nd June 2019
- Improved the Footnotes table display
- Updated Licensing package
- Bug: Fixed CM Footnotes Preview on the Edit Post page
Version 1.4.6 30th Jan 2019
- Updated package 1.8.6
- Added integration with Pay Per Post
Version 1.4.5 20th Nov 2018
- Fixed the problem with ‘Only show footnotes on single posts/pages’ option
- Improve plugin css display
Version 1.4.4 1st Nov 2018
Fixed the problem with Footnote tooltip styles
Version 1.4.3 30th Sep 2018
- Added option “Show each footnote on a separate line”
- Fixed the problem with Footnote styles
Version 1.4.2 25th Sep 2018
- Fixed the problem with hyperlinks in Simple Footnotes
Version 1.4.1 21st Aug 2018
- Added option to show footnote content as a tooltip
Version 1.4.0 12th July 2018
- Added option to show footnote content as a tooltip
Version 1.3.0 10th June 2018
- Responsive Footnotes display in multiple columns
- Added Dash Icon option to add/edit footnotes and rendering of the page along with footnotes
- Separator Settings for Footnotes display
Version 1.2.7 26th Sep 2017
- Added the option to disable the Automatic Footnotes Display on page (allows to display only in Widget etc)
- Added the link from the Footnote table symbol to the place where the term appears on the page
Version 1.2.6 12th June 2017
- Added the HTML support for Simple Footnotes
- Fixed the bugs with adding Footnotes through modal
- Added the option to change the priority of the filter outputting the Simple Footnotes
Version 1.2.5 10th May 2017
- Fixed the problem with the plugin after updating from the Free version
- Updated the Licensing Package
Version 1.2.4 22nd April 2017
- Fixed some small bugs
Version 1.2.3 18th March 2017
- Fixed the unexpected behavior/bug from last update
Version 1.2.2 17th March 2017
- Add option to choose how to use line break
Version 1.2.1 12th March 2017
- Fixed parsing function that removed paragraphs (
tags) and/or line breaks from posts on the front-end
Version 1.2.0 4th Oct 2016
- Added the new type of simple footnotes – added with the [cm_simple_footnote id=”X”] shortcode
- Fixed the bug in the footnotes preview
- Fixed some small bugs
Version 1.1.9 7th Aug 2016
- Updated the Licensing API
Version 1.1.8 28th June 2016
- Fixed the bug stopping the footnotes from appearing when their display setting is “Display on all pages”
- Fixed the bug causing the footnotes loaded by the id not having their content displayed
Version 1.1.7 9th June 2016
- Fixed the bug stopping the “Footnote Add” metabox from appearing on custom post types
- Added the option to add the footnote with the shortcode [cm_custom_footnote content=”term description”] term [/cm_custom_footnote]
Version 1.1.6 22th May 2016
- Update licensing version and dashboard
Version 1.1.5 19th April 2016
- Security fixes based on advisory
- Additional optimization and bug fixes
Version 1.1.4 15th April 2016
- Big performance optimization (reduced memory amount used, number of queries, and loading times)
Version 1.1.3 20th March 2016
- Updated licensing api support
Version 1.1.2 9th Mar 2016
- Added the option to display the preview of the Footnotes on the post / page edit
Version 1.0.9 14th Feb 2016
- Fixed bugs
Version 1.0.10 25th Feb 2016
- Added automatic updates from plugin dashboard
- Replaced plugin admin interface including license activation and user guide
Version 1.0.8 28th Jan 2016
- Fixed bugs and css issues
Version 1.0.7 13th Dec 2015
- Minor Changes in the licensing system
Version 1.0.6 20th Nov 2015
- Fixed the mb_stringtolower
- Fixed the bug with the link in the notice
- Added the Non-SSL option to license
- Removed the “AddOns” tab when not needed
Version 1.0.4 19th Nov 2015
- Ensured the WordPress 4.4 compatibility
- Small fix to the licensing package
Version 1.0.3 11th Nov 2015
- Removed the parsing in the textareas
- Removed the parsing in the style blocks
- Fixed the bug in the BuddyPress group creation/editing
- Fixed method of using synonyms
Version 1.0.2 23rd July 2015
- Fix RegEX bug doesn’t support footnote number
Version 1.0.1 14th July 2015
- Fixed bugs related to the editor