easy-footnotes

Easy Footnotes

Easy Footnotes lets you quickly and easily add footnotes throughout your WordPress posts using a simple shortcode in the text editor.

46.8 opportunity score Open evidence Open API Open on WordPress.org

8.0Kactive installs

151.6Kdownloads

4.8rating

0unresolved threads

22complaints analyzed

12praise analyzed

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Download Momentum

180 days

473recent 30 days 481previous 30 days -1.7%movement 3.1Kshown total

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Source Evidence

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complaint support · high severity · relevance 0.79

Please consider separating footnotes

Please consider separating footnotes: users show security pain that may indicate a product gap.

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For example like this [1][2][3] Although I managed to do this with CSS, it’s only a hack: span.easy-footnote a::before { content: "\005B"; text-decoration: none; font-size: smaller; vertical-align: super;}span.easy-footnote a::after { content: "\005D"; text-decoration: none; font-size: smaller; vertical-align: super;} You should consider styling the superscr

complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.93

Having a problem possibly related to this plugin

Having a problem possibly related to this plugin: users show bugs, compatibility, performance pain that may indicate a product gap.

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So now I can’t edit the post continuing from how I left it, because what the editor gives me to work with is somehow missing some of the content that exists in the most recently published version of the post.

complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.88

Superscript Breaks to Next Line

Superscript Breaks to Next Line: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

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I have this exact issue: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/end-of-line-superscript-wraps-by-itself-to-next-line/ I cannot stop the superscript from breaking to the next line on its lonesome.

complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.81

Hide footnotes from homepage

Hide footnotes from homepage: users show compatibility, support, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

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Hide footnotes from homepage Hi, I just installed Easy Footnotes and it’s working great.

complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.81

EFN Breaks my Elementor home page

EFN Breaks my Elementor home page: users show compatibility, support, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

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EFN Breaks my Elementor home page When I install and use EFN as directed, it breaks the line break formatting of my Elementor (Pro) home page.

complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.81

Accordion

Accordion: users show missing feature, support, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

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Accordion Hi Jason Yingling, Thank you for kindly providing us with the easy Footnotes plugin.

complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.81

Improve I18N Issues (Based on 1.1.6)

Improve I18N Issues (Based on 1.1.6): users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

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Improve I18N Issues (Based on 1.1.6) This plugin’s “ Requires at least ” is below 4.6.

mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.78

Please fix the error message occurred after WordPress 6.7

Please fix the error message occurred after WordPress 6.7: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

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Please fix the error message occurred after WordPress 6.7 After upgrading to WordPress 6.7, it shows the following error message.

mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.78

Footnotes appearing twice on mobile phones

Footnotes appearing twice on mobile phones: users show bugs, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

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Once at their proper place, and another time below the website’s footer.

complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.75

Footnote Numbers not Restarting on New Post

Footnote Numbers not Restarting on New Post: users show compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

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Footnote Numbers not Restarting on New Post I am trying to add separate blog posts on WordPress via Elementor and using the EasyFootnote.

Competitor Context

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Ghost praise owner · intel 76.4 · weakness 69.1

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stale update history below-average rating bugs migration 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: preflight export jobs, verify restore/import output, and flag failed handoffs

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Live Blogging praise owner · intel 73.6 · weakness 64.4

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stale update history 18 collected complaint signal(s) support missing feature 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: service businesses and booking-site builders · Wedge: test event availability, booking notifications, payment handoffs, and calendar sync

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Class Blogs watchlist · intel 55.1 · weakness 58.5

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stale update history 7 collected complaint signal(s) bugs compatibility 1 source link Evidence only

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Live Broadcast watchlist · intel 35.7 · weakness 37.8

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stale update history 1 collected complaint signal(s) setup 2 source links Hold Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: site owners and agencies · Wedge: detect failures around live before they cost the buyer time, revenue, or trust

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Progress Planner praise owner · intel 30.7 · weakness 16.2

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1 source link Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor maintenance health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions

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Nutrifox WP Connector watchlist · intel 25.4 · weakness 32.5

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stale update history 1 source link Investigate Pain Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check recipes publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live

source 1

ContentPen watchlist · intel 22.9 · weakness 17.6

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1 collected complaint signal(s) missing feature 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor SEO drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes

source 1 source 2

Clariti watchlist · intel 18.8 · weakness 18.3

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complaint Doesn’t work with Beaver Builder support · 2025-11-26T21:20:53+00:00 · medium severity · blogging

Footnote links break when editing content with Beaver Builder, creating anchors that go nowhere.

Evidence: it seems to break and add some weird links

compatibility bugs Beaver Builder footnotes Evidence only

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mixed EFN links in some posts fail to point correctly support · 2025-07-20T20:43:21+00:00 · medium severity · blogging

Some longer posts had Easy Footnotes links that failed to jump to the correct footnote in multiple browsers.

Evidence: on some longer posts EFN links fail to point to the correct (or any) footnote number.

bugs compatibility quality footnote link targets Evidence only

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praise No option to place the footnotes (4 stars) review · 2025-04-04T06:39:05+00:00 · medium severity · blogging

No option to place the footnotes: users show performance, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: No option to place the footnotes Easy Footnotes is an excellent plugin that delivers on its promise of simplicity and speed.

performance missing feature easy Evidence only

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praise True to its name – Easy to use (5 stars) review · 2025-03-19T14:00:39+00:00 · medium severity · blogging

True to its name – Easy to use: users praise easy, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: True to its name – Easy to use The Easy Footnotes plug-in is simple and easy to use.

easy form Evidence only

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complaint Hide footnotes from homepage support · 2025-03-10T05:02:27+00:00 · medium severity · blogging

Hide footnotes from homepage: users show compatibility, support, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Hide footnotes from homepage Hi, I just installed Easy Footnotes and it’s working great.

compatibility support setup easy Evidence only

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complaint Footnote list’s position is wrong with elementor support · 2025-01-30T20:52:18+00:00 · medium severity · blogging

Footnote list’s position is wrong with elementor: users show compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Footnote list’s position is wrong with elementor When I edit a post with wordpress, the footnotes at the end of the post appear where I expect them to be (in alignment with the post’s text).

compatibility support elementor Evidence only

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mixed Please fix the error message occurred after WordPress 6.7 support · 2024-12-06T19:26:09+00:00 · medium severity · blogging

Please fix the error message occurred after WordPress 6.7: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Please fix the error message occurred after WordPress 6.7 After upgrading to WordPress 6.7, it shows the following error message.

bugs compatibility support easy Evidence only

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praise Change color of footnote numbers below the main text? support · 2024-11-12T20:31:51+00:00 · medium severity · blogging

Change color of footnote numbers below the main text?: users praise easy, quality, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: https://ps.w.org/easy-footnotes/trunk/screenshot-2.jpg?rev=3186180 Best!

easy quality Evidence only

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complaint WP 6.x block support? support · 2024-07-16T16:52:18+00:00 · medium severity · blogging

WP 6.x block support?: users show support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: WP 6.x block support?

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complaint I would like to contribute by leaving a code to change the style support · 2024-05-04T01:01:59+00:00 · medium severity · blogging

I would like to contribute by leaving a code to change the style: users show missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: I would like to contribute by leaving a code to change the style In my case I didn’t want the label to be a 1, I wanted it to be a symbol for ?

missing feature easy Evidence only

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complaint Testing for WordPress version 6.3 soon? support · 2024-04-26T08:00:21+00:00 · medium severity · blogging

Testing for WordPress version 6.3 soon?: users show compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Testing for WordPress version 6.3 soon?

compatibility easy reliable quality Evidence only

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mixed Improve I18N Issues (Based on 1.1.6) support · 2023-09-17T20:55:07+00:00 · medium severity · blogging

Improve I18N Issues (Based on 1.1.6): users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Improve I18N Issues (Based on 1.1.6) There are some I18N issues for this plugin, I list them for your reference.

bugs compatibility missing feature easy Evidence only

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complaint Repeating footnotes (Or repeating citations) support · 2023-06-19T14:35:18+00:00 · medium severity · blogging

Repeating footnotes (Or repeating citations): users show missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Repeating footnotes (Or repeating citations) I have been using this awesome plugin for a long time.

missing feature value Evidence only

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praise Getting the plugin to work with custom content support · 2023-06-13T16:25:39+00:00 · medium severity · blogging

Getting the plugin to work with custom content: users praise easy, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: I’ve previously used Easy Footnotes on other sites, so I had hoped to use it here as well.

easy Evidence only

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praise URL showing in the blog not the source list & two superscripts support · 2023-05-07T19:30:37+00:00 · medium severity · blogging

URL showing in the blog not the source list & two superscripts: users praise easy, reliable, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: URL showing in the blog not the source list & two superscripts Easy footnotes works until I get to my 9th source.

easy reliable Evidence only

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complaint Superscript Breaks to Next Line support · 2023-04-23T22:46:59+00:00 · medium severity · blogging

Superscript Breaks to Next Line: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: I have this exact issue: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/end-of-line-superscript-wraps-by-itself-to-next-line/ I cannot stop the superscript from breaking to the next line on its lonesome.

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complaint Please consider separating footnotes support · 2023-03-20T11:44:47+00:00 · high severity · blogging

Please consider separating footnotes: users show security pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: For example like this [1][2][3] Although I managed to do this with CSS, it’s only a hack: span.easy-footnote a::before { content: "\005B"; text-decoration: none; font-size: smaller; vertical-align: super;}span.easy-footnote a::after { content: "\005D"; text-decoration: none; font-size: smaller; vertical-align: super;} You should consider styling the superscr

security easy Evidence only

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complaint Improve I18N Issues (Based on 1.1.6) support · 2023-01-17T10:07:58+00:00 · medium severity · blogging

Improve I18N Issues (Based on 1.1.6): users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Improve I18N Issues (Based on 1.1.6) This plugin’s “ Requires at least ” is below 4.6.

bugs compatibility missing feature easy Evidence only

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complaint Remove footnotes on mobile? support · 2023-01-12T19:07:08+00:00 · medium severity · blogging

Remove footnotes on mobile?: users show missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Is it possible to turn footnotes off on mobile?

missing feature Evidence only

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mixed Title Header for Footnotes support · 2022-12-26T00:59:21+00:00 · medium severity · blogging

Title Header for Footnotes: users show missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Title Header for Footnotes Very easy to implement and works smoothly.

missing feature support easy reliable Evidence only

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