Title: Repeating footnotes
Last modified: December 3, 2018

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# Repeating footnotes

 *  [wemnael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wemnael/)
 * (@wemnael)
 * [7 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/repeating-footnotes/)
 * Hello,
 * Is there any possibility to add a feature so when I insert the same footnote 
   later in the text to not increase number? – let’s say I repeat number 1: to insert
   again 1, instead of 2?

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 *  Plugin Author [Jason Yingling](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yingling017/)
 * (@yingling017)
 * [7 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/repeating-footnotes/#post-10942254)
 * Hi there,
 * That’s one of the more requested features and one that could be added. There’s
   no timeline for it at this time though.
 *  [stefanwolf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stefanwolf/)
 * (@stefanwolf)
 * [7 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/repeating-footnotes/#post-11149998)
 * One problem here are the backlinks from the footnote list at the end to jump 
   back to the text position of the fn. I think it would be better style to create
   a new footnote saying something like “click and read footnote 1 again, then jump
   back here” which gives you the chance to click it and jump to all the footnotes
   at the end, re-read fn1 and click the other backlink to jump back to the correct
   text position. Of course, this means you need to adjust the text if you later
   insert a new footnote before the first, which becomes fn2 then. But that also
   is true for the “repeat footnote” method of the original poster, where you also
   somehow have to refer to the existing footnote. The problem in both methods can
   only be avoided if footnotes can be referred to by an optional fixed given name(
   that will never change after referring to it) instead of their position (which
   is always prone to later changes).

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 * Last reply from: [stefanwolf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stefanwolf/)
 * Last activity: [7 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/repeating-footnotes/#post-11149998)
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