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Modern Footnotes · Version history

Modern Footnotes changelog and version history

Latest version
1.5.1
Aug 24, 2026 (2 months ago)
Releases
51
since 2017
In the last year
4
about one every 11 days
Tested up to
WordPress 7.1.4

Releases each year

  • 20174 releases
  • 20189 releases
  • 201912 releases
  • 20202 releases
  • 202110 releases
  • 20224 releases
  • 20234 releases
  • 20241 release
  • 20251 release
  • 20264 releases

20264 releases

  1. Modern Footnotes 1.5.1Latest

    • Fix PHP warning for unefined global

  2. Modern Footnotes 1.5.0

    • Add links from footnote list up to footnote location
    • Add links from footnote tooltip down to footnote location
    • Minor internal rewrite of the logic when multiple footnotes share the same reference label.

  3. Modern Footnotes 1.4.21

    • Formatting fix for block editor in WordPress 7.0.

  4. Modern Footnotes 1.4.20

    • Security fix for XSS issue. Thanks to muhammad yudha and Patchstack for identifying the issue.

20251 release

  1. Modern Footnotes 1.4.19

    • Fix compatibility issue with Relevanssi

20241 release

  1. Modern Footnotes 1.4.18

    • Fix PHP warning when $GLOBALS[‘post’] was not a WP_POST instance

20234 releases

  1. Modern Footnotes 1.4.17

    • Security fix for XSS issue. Thanks to cleantalk and Dmitrii Ignatyev for identifying the issue.

  2. Modern Footnotes 1.4.16

    • Security fix for XSS issue. Thanks to Rio Darmawan for identifying the issue.

  3. Modern Footnotes 1.4.15

    • Fix for duplicate HTML ids

  4. Modern Footnotes 1.4.14

    • Minor fix for a PHP warning where foreach was attempting to access a null object

20224 releases

  1. Modern Footnotes 1.4.13

    • Fixed a problem where using the hover option for footnotes would cause footnote display issues on mobile.

  2. Modern Footnotes 1.4.12

    • Add ability to provide a custom class attribute to mfn shortcode tags
    • Fix JavaScript error loading Modern Footnotes on widgets page
    • Add a new option to customize the heading of a footnote list
    • Fix PHP type warnings when strings were provided as footnote reference numbers

  3. Modern Footnotes 1.4.11

    • Accessibility fix: set aria-describedby and gave footnote links a role of “button”

  4. Modern Footnotes 1.4.10

    • Remove outline style from tooltip when users are focused on it
    • Added an option to add heading text to a footnote list

202110 releases

  1. Modern Footnotes 1.4.9

    • Fixed a PHP warning in debug mode

  2. Modern Footnotes 1.4.8

    • Fixed a PHP warning in debug mode

  3. Modern Footnotes 1.4.7

    • Add option to add title attribute with footnote contents to footnote numbers

  4. Modern Footnotes 1.4.6

    • Removed title attribute from footnotes (may add this in again in the future as a setting, if it’s requested)

  5. Modern Footnotes 1.4.5

    • Fix to issue where footnotes would sometimes interfere with line height
    • Only load CSS/JS for Modern Footnotes on pages where it’s used
    • Add option to show tooltips on hover
    • Add title attribute to a element that opens footnotes
    • Fixed issue with rendering footnotes in excerpts
    • Fixed issue related to WordPress back-end compatibility with other plugins
    • Accessibility improvements: set focus in and out of tooltip footnotes, and make the escape key work when in a footnote

  6. Modern Footnotes 1.4.4

  7. Modern Footnotes 1.4.3

    • =1.4.2= * Change “x” button to only close one collapsible footnote at a time to prevent mobile scrolling issues

  8. Modern Footnotes 1.4.2

  9. Modern Footnotes 1.4.1

    • =1.4= * Added option to list footnotes at bottom of the page. Fixed issue where Display Posts plugin would cause posts to sometimes render with incorrect numbering.

  10. Modern Footnotes 1.4

20202 releases

  1. Modern Footnotes 1.3.11

    • =1.3.10= * Fixed problem on pages that listed multiple posts where footnote numbers wouldn’t reset. Added an option to reset footnote numbering with an attribute. Fixed a minor code issue with the Gutenberg editor.
    • =1.3.9= * Fixed problem in Chrome where a footnote near the right side of the screen would appear with compressed width on desktop
    • =1.3.8= * Fixed problems with some custom implementations where footnotes wouldn’t open due to extra DOM elements being placed between the footnote link & content

  2. Modern Footnotes 1.3.10

201912 releases

  1. Modern Footnotes 1.3.9

  2. Modern Footnotes 1.3.8

  3. Modern Footnotes 1.3.7

    • =1.3.6= * Fix for problem where clicking on a footnote with the same numbering as another footnote would open both footnotes
    • =1.3.5= * Fix for problem where footnote numbering would incorrectly start with ‘3’ in some cases, especially when combined with the Yoast SEO plugin
    • =1.3.4= * Fix for problem where some extra, empty footnotes would randomly appear
    • =1.3.3= * Fix issue where applying multiple formats in conjunction with footnotes in the Gutenberg editor would mess up footnote formatting
    • =1.3.2= * Fix issue where links inside footnotes wouldn’t appear inline with other text
    • =1.3.1= * Updated style so that long links are truncated with ellipsis in tooltips
    • =1.3.0= * Fixed problem where Classic Editor button did not appear in WP 5.x. Added Gutenberg button. Allow shortcode within footnotes.

  4. Modern Footnotes 1.3.6

  5. Modern Footnotes 1.3.5

  6. Modern Footnotes 1.3.4

  7. Modern Footnotes 1.3.3

  8. Modern Footnotes 1.3.2

  9. Modern Footnotes 1.3.1

  10. Modern Footnotes 1.3.0

  11. Modern Footnotes 1.2.7

  12. Modern Footnotes 1.2.6

20189 releases

  1. Modern Footnotes 1.2.5

    • =1.2.4= * Fixed a problem where HTML tags could not be entered inside a footnote.

  2. Modern Footnotes 1.2.4

  3. Modern Footnotes 1.2.3

  4. Modern Footnotes 1.2.2

    • =1.2.1= * Fixed a problem where footnote would improperly size when it was opened multiple times at the edge of a container
    • =1.2= * Stopped using href=”#” for a HTML elements for increased theme compatibility. Added ability to have a custom shortcode. Added a custom CSS area. Added the ability to manually override citations.
    • =1.1.4= * Fixed issue where footnote numbering wouldn’t be sequential when other plugins like TablePress caused shortcodes to render in a different order than they appear in the HTML.

  5. Modern Footnotes 1.2.1

  6. Modern Footnotes 1.2

  7. Modern Footnotes 1.1.4

  8. Modern Footnotes 1.1.3

  9. Modern Footnotes 1.1.2

20174 releases

  1. Modern Footnotes 1.1.1

  2. Modern Footnotes 1.1.0

  3. Modern Footnotes 1.0.1

  4. Modern Footnotes 1.0

Questions about Modern Footnotes’s releases

What is the latest version of Modern Footnotes?

1.5.1, released on Aug 24, 2026 (2 months ago). It’s tested up to WordPress 7.1.4.

How often is Modern Footnotes updated?

4 releases in the last year, about one every 11 days. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from June 2017.

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