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Footnotes Made Easy · Version history

Footnotes Made Easy changelog and version history

Latest version
3.2.3
Nov 7, 2026 (2 days ago)
Releases
18
since 2017
In the last year
5
about one every 46 days
Tested up to
WordPress 7.1.4
PHP 7.4 or later

Releases each year

  • 20171 release
  • 20181 release
  • 20191 release
  • 20246 releases
  • 20254 releases
  • 20265 releases

20265 releases

  1. Footnotes Made Easy 3.2.3Latest

    • Fixed: Minor UI and copy fixes

  2. Footnotes Made Easy 3.2.2

    • Fixed: The footnotes header and footer text could not be translated on multilingual sites Issue #53.
    • Fixed: Minor UI fixes

  3. Footnotes Made Easy 3.2.1

    • Fixed: Duplicate footnote text appearing at the bottom of the page when Pretty Tooltips was enabled. #51
    • Fixed: Footnote font size appeared too large on themes that don’t load the block library stylesheet. #52

  4. Footnotes Made Easy 3.2.0

    • New: Fully redesigned admin UI with a dedicated top-level Footnotes menu (Dashboard, Footnotes Settings, Tools, and so much more)
    • New: Dashboard page with live plugin usage statistics — footnote counts across all posts and pages
    • New: Tabbed settings interface — Display, Behaviour, Suppress, and Advanced tabs
    • New: Tools page with settings export and import (JSON), factory reset, and preserve-on-uninstall option
    • New: Multisite support — network-managed mode and per-subsite override mode, configurable from network admin
    • Enhancement: Suppress footnotes by post categories and by specific URL list
    • Fix: HTML in the Footnotes Header and Footer fields (e.g. <h2>References</h2>) was being double-encoded on save, causing &lt;h2&gt; to appear in the textarea on subsequent edits. Issue #39.
    • Enhancement: New Back-link position setting in Display → Back-links. Choose whether the back-link appears at the end (default, existing behaviour) or the beginning of each footnote. Issue #5.
    • Fix: Footnotes Header and Footer text was not translated by WPML

  5. Footnotes Made Easy 3.1.0

    • Compatibility: WordPress 6.9 compatibility test passed

20254 releases

  1. Footnotes Made Easy 3.0.9

    • Fix: Footnotes header now correctly appears before the list (not inside it).
    • Fix: Restored ‘footnote-link’ CSS class for backward compatibility with custom CSS.

  2. Footnotes Made Easy 3.0.8

    • CRITICAL SECURITY FIX: CVE-2025-11733 — Fixed unauthenticated stored XSS vulnerability (CVSS 7.2)
    • Security: Complete security overhaul with 5-layer protection
    • Security: Proper authentication, CSRF protection, input sanitisation, and output escaping
    • Fix: 32 output escaping issues resolved
    • Fix: 18 translation strings corrected
    • Fix: All code now complies with WordPress coding standards
    • Performance: 20–30% faster page loads with optimised resource loading
    • Compatibility: WordPress 6.8 and PHP 8.4
    • Quality: Zero Plugin Check errors or warnings

  3. Footnotes Made Easy 3.0.7

    • Fix: PHP 8.4 compatibility issue
    • Compatibility: WordPress 6.8 compatibility test passed

  4. Footnotes Made Easy 3.0.6

    • Fix: PHP 8.2 compatibility issue

20246 releases

  1. Footnotes Made Easy 3.0.5

  2. Footnotes Made Easy 3.0.4

  3. Footnotes Made Easy 3.0.3

  4. Footnotes Made Easy 3.0.2

  5. Footnotes Made Easy 3.0.1

  6. Footnotes Made Easy 3.0

20191 release

  1. Footnotes Made Easy 1.0.2

20181 release

  1. Footnotes Made Easy 1.0.1

20171 release

  1. Footnotes Made Easy 1.0

Questions about Footnotes Made Easy’s releases

What is the latest version of Footnotes Made Easy?

3.2.3, released on Nov 7, 2026 (2 days ago). It’s tested up to WordPress 7.1.4 and needs PHP 7.4 or later.

How often is Footnotes Made Easy updated?

5 releases in the last year, about one every 46 days. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from January 2017.

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Release dates come from the day each version’s folder was made in Footnotes Made Easy’s WordPress.org SVN repository; the notes from its readme’s changelog, as its authors wrote it.