Footnotes Made Easy Pro

Keep footnotes and citations in one workflow

Footnotes Made Easy Pro extends Footnotes Made Easy with academic referencing utilities for WordPress posts and pages. It keeps the existing footnote workflow and adds ways to make, format, store, and reuse source citations.

For a regular footnote, put its text inside double parentheses, such as ((this is a footnote)). Leave a space before the opening parentheses. The extension numbers and links the note, then shows it at the bottom of the content. Pro adds formatted source citations to this workflow for writers, educators, researchers, and publishers.

Choose a citation style and source type

Pro formats academic citations in APA, MLA, or Chicago style. It supports ten source types, including books, journals, sites, newspapers, films, and theses. The selected style and source type determine how each reference is formatted.

Populate source details with an identifier

When a source has a DOI or ISBN, enter that identifier in the citation workflow. Pro can fetch details such as the title, author, publisher, and year to populate the reference before you insert it.

Reuse saved references across posts

The Citation Library stores a reference for later use across posts. Search and filter saved citations, then insert them when preparing new articles or revisiting existing pages. This is useful when related research, educational material, or other source-heavy content uses the same sources.

Manage citations in the editor

A Gutenberg sidebar panel lets you manage, edit, and insert footnotes from the block editor. For inline footnotes, add the double-parentheses syntax in a text block. The extension also works with the existing Classic Editor and Gutenberg footnote workflow.

Existing footnote controls

Everything provided by the underlying Footnotes Made Easy plugin continues to work with Pro. You can combine identical footnotes, set a manual starting number for paginated posts, and refer to an earlier footnote by number using ((ref:1)).

Settings cover identifier style, back-link format and position, header and footer text, tooltip behaviour, combining identical footnotes, and processing priority. You can also suppress footnotes on selected page types, post types, URLs, or categories.

Install and start citing

Install Footnotes Made Easy, then upgrade to the Pro edition. Add a regular footnote by placing its text inside double parentheses in a post or page. For an academic reference, use the Gutenberg sidebar panel or citation workflow to select a source type, pick APA, MLA, or Chicago formatting, and insert or reuse the citation.

Pro includes priority support from the AltviseWP team for help with its citation and referencing tools.