How to Create Footnotes in WordPress
In this tutorial, we’ll show you an easy way to create footnotes in WordPress.
Footnotes Example
Here’s an example of how footnotes work. In HTML, they are simply anchor links that go to the Notes section at the bottom of the page. Clicking on any of them will take you to the respective note.
Install Simple Footnotes Plugin
Use our Install WordPress Plugins tutorial to install the Simple Footnotes plugin.
Add Footnotes
Wherever you’d like the footnote to appear, simply add [ref][/ref] with your footnote text in the middle. So if I want my note to say “The standard opening of Lorem Ipsum”, I’d use the following:
The plugin will automatically move the notes to the bottom of the page and order them properly.
Test
Finally, save and preview your post or page to make sure it’s working. Click on the footnote and make sure it goes down to the respective note.
That’s all there is to it. Congrats!
If you use Markdown and don’t want to use a [ref] shortcode tag in your markup, there’s this: [url=https://wordpress.org/plugins/civil-footnotes/]https://wordpress.org/plugi…[/url]