WP-Footnotes - Plugin for WordPress Endnotes and Footnotes

WP-Footnotes is a plugin for WordPress that I have been using a lot lately. It makes it really easy to put in Footnotes or Endnotes.

I installed it when I was doing an artist interview and the picture was of a mushroom. I found some great information on the mushroom and the mushroom website even had how he wanted his site credited. Since I am talking about one of my blog postings, I will use the footnote at the end of this paragraph. If you want to see the Orange Mushroom post, click the little 1 after the period.¹

I found a web reference to footnotes which shows some of the accepted styles if you were writing a paper for a college course, thesis, dissertation or were submitting to a journal. The sites author, Robert Radford, provides numerous examples. He also has posted the answers to questions that people have written in. I would put the link if a footnote if I was referencing it but since I am telling you about it, I will give the link here.²

How to write footnotes, endnotes and electronic references. by Robert Radfort

Here is how I use WP-Footnotes. After you have installed the plugin go to Settings on your Dashboard. Click on Footnotes.

From here, you can change how you want your identifier to appear. I keep mine simple so I do not add anything before or after it. I also leave it in the 1,2,3 style. I do change the css style, I take out his color choice and let my css control the color. I also check the box next to “Combine identical notes?“.

The best thing about this plugin is how fast it is to type in the footnote. All you have to do is put double(( at the beginning and )) at the end. I made the(( show by putting it without a space next to another word. If I put it in as a space it would not be here.³

1. Retrieved from Top Orange Blog Website: http://toporangeblog.com/archives/63 [↩]
2. No footnote here, just testing. [↩]
3. but it would be down here [↩]