Inline Context – Footnotes, Tooltips & Glossary Notes
Add footnotes, tooltips and glossary notes to any text in the block editor. A reader clicks a term, the explanation opens in place, and they carry on reading – no jump to the bottom of the page, no new tab. Try it in your browser – a real WordPress with the plugin already set up. Nothing to install.
About this tool.
Add footnotes, tooltips and glossary notes to any text in the block editor. A reader clicks a term, the explanation opens in place, and they carry on reading – no jump to the bottom of the page, no new tab.
Try it in your browser – a real WordPress with the plugin already set up. Nothing to install.
Built for sites with a lot of text: editorial, research, documentation and education.
How it works
- 01Select text in the block editor and press Cmd+Shift+I.
- 02Write the note. Rich text, links and images are supported.
- 03Optionally give it a category, with its own icon and colour.
- 04Publish. The note opens inline or as a tooltip, whichever you choose.
Mark a note reusable and it joins your Notes Library. Edit it once and every post that uses it updates.
Key Features
- Two display modes – an inline panel or a tooltip, with smart positioning and optional hover activation.
- Reusable notes – a Notes Library showing each note’s usage count and the posts it appears in, searchable from inside the editor.
- Categories – as many as you like, each with any of 300+ Dashicons and its own colour.
- Styling without CSS – five WCAG 2.1 AA colour presets, plus live-preview control of colours, spacing, borders and shadows.
- Images in notes – inserted straight from the Media Library.
- Deep links – every note has its own anchor and opens automatically when someone follows that link.
- Print – notes expand and number themselves as footnotes.
- Keyboard shortcuts – Cmd+Shift+I to insert, Cmd+Shift+K to edit the note under the cursor.
- Settings backup – export and import your configuration as JSON.
Accessibility
Operable by keyboard throughout, with full ARIA state, Escape to close, and focus returned to where it started. Note content is sanitised with DOMPurify.
If JavaScript does not run, the notes fall back to a numbered endnote list at the foot of the post, each with a link back to its place in the text, so the content stays reachable either way.
