Description

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Easily add footnotes to any and all of your WordPress pages and posts with the CreativeMinds WordPress footnotes plugin. 2023 Improved Version

The WordPress Footnotes plugin allows you to easily add footnotes and citations to any page or post on your WordPress site.

This footnotes plugin lets users customize powerful footnotes, images, styles and citations to your site content and cite sources of your material with a user friendly in-page meta box.

The footnotes plugin supports adding multiple footnotes to any page or post on a WordPress site. Also, users have the ability to hide or collapse footnotes quickly and easily.

This footnotes plugin creates a central index of all footnotes on one page for easy user navigation. The page displays your custom footnotes next to any related pages or posts.

Basic Footnotes Plugin Features

Add a footnote to every page or post, or custom post types.
Customize the basic footnote style and design.
Footnotes can be placed anywhere in the post or page using a shortcode.
Specify unique footnote link symbols for each definition.
Supports autoscrolling from the footnote link to the definition at the bottom of the page

Pro Version Features

Pro Version Detailed Features List | Demo Site

Supports backlinks to footnotes from definitions at the bottom of the page.

Extended styling settings for footnote links, footnote list at the bottom of the page and for tooltips.

Add dashicons to every footnote. These are displayed next to the definition at the bottom of the page, making your articles much more attractive.

Add external links to each footnote definition.

Display definitions in posts and pages as nice-looking tooltips.

How to Use the Footnotes Plugin

Mark your page or post text and create footnotes to show citation information. You can choose to display those endnotes on all pages and customize the central index page.

Keywords

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Screenshots

Example of footnotes on a post
Adding a footnote to a post using a metabox
Plugin settings

Installation

Upload the plugin folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
Define your footnote terms under the footnote menu item in the administration interface. The title of the page should be the term. The body content should be the definition.
Create a main footnote page (example “Footnote”) with no body content if you wish to. If you do not create this page then your terms will still be highlighted but there will not be a central listing of all your terms.
In the plugin’s dashboard preferences, enter the main footnote page’s id (optional as above)
There are a handful of other optional preferences available in the dashboard.

Note: You must have a call to wp_head() in your template in order for the footnote js and css to work properly. If your theme does not support this you will need to link to these files manually in your theme (not recommended).

Reviews

robertreddin November 23, 2022 1 reply

Updated: I have the free version of CM Footnotes. I created three blog posts, each with its own footnotes. I was dismayed to find that the footnotes for the latest post had also been applied to the previous articles. That should not have happened. Support for the free verion through the forum was quick, excellent and resulted in a bug being diagnosed, fixed and a new release is being rolled out. This plugin now does what it says on the side of the tin, and I am very happy with it. I am also very pleased with the support I received. I will upgrade to the pro version when the roll-out of the new release has been completed.

mcfitzsatx July 13, 2019

I'm using this on a volunteer site that includes the text of a book with lots of footnotes. Works great and is relatively easy to use. Looks very professional on the site.

ragots September 12, 2018 1 reply

I installed this plugin and it worked out of the box even if when I click on the little number of a footnote, the page sends me to the anchor but too far below the place where the footnotes are on the page. So you're looking everywhere trying to see the footnotes, but they are a bit higher, and you have to schroll back up a little. That's a bit weird, but I'm guessing you cannot fix that (unless you buy Pro and contact support). Plus, I thought it was sneaky to put this little promo link that says "Powered by CreativeMinds WordPress Plugin CM Footnotes" below the footnotes, which encourages you to buy the Pro version if you want that removed. I thought that was really nasty, and made me not buy the Pro version and prompted me to give it a 4 stars instead of 5. Post scriptum: I actually tried to remove a star after I gave it 4 stars, but the system would not let me do that.

Arthur September 3, 2016

Just wrote a long explanation about why but lost connectivity. Sorry, don't have time to repeat, basically I wanted to cite the source of a statistic (0.70) and didn't work. Use Tooltips for definitions, not footnotes.

Michael Junker September 3, 2016

I 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..

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Contributors & Developers

“CM Footnotes” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

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Changelog

2.1.1

Release Date: 21st Mar 2023
* Update package info

2.1.0

Release Date: 23th Nov 2022
* Fixed the bug when displaying the footnotes on the archive/blog/home page

2.0.9

Release Date: 9th Nov 2022
* Replace Internal support links

View Release Notes in CM Footnotes Plugin Site

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