Title: Hypothesis
Author: dwhly
Published: <strong>August 27, 2013</strong>
Last modified: December 2, 2025

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# Hypothesis

 By [dwhly](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dwhly/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/hypothesis.0.7.5.zip)

 * [Details](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/hypothesis/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/hypothesis/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/hypothesis/#installation)
 * [Development](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/hypothesis/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/hypothesis/)

## Description

Hypothesis is a web annotation tool that allows users to provide commentary, references,
and insight on top of news, blogs, scientific articles, books, terms of service,
ballot initiatives, legislation and regulations, software code and more. You can
find out more at [http://hypothes.is/](http://hypothes.is/)

This plugin will allow you to automatically embed Hypothesis in your site.

Without this plugin, you would have to follow [these steps](https://web.hypothes.is/help/embedding-hypothesis-in-websites-and-platforms/),
but with this plugin you only need to check some checkboxes, and you will be good
to go.

 * [Terms of Service](https://web.hypothes.is/terms-of-service/)
 * [Privacy Policy](https://web.hypothes.is/privacy/)

## Installation

 1. Upload `hypothesis.php` to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
 3. You’re done! The frontend of your site should now be enabled to use Hypothesis.

## Reviews

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### 󠀁[Great for making Internet being alive](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-for-making-internet-being-alive/)󠁿

 [comunicacionabierta](https://profiles.wordpress.org/comunicacionabierta/) April
1, 2024

Hypothesis is one of those technologies that understand what the web is all about.
This plugin for Wordpress makes easy for everyone to get to know the project. It
works neat. Thanks!

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### 󠀁[Great tool for peer review](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-tool-for-peer-review/)󠁿

 [suchurchill](https://profiles.wordpress.org/suchurchill/) June 4, 2019

Although this plugin appears not to have been updated, it’s because it’s simple 
code still works efficiently and well. This is a great tool for group annotation
and public peer review, and the technical support from Hypothes.is is top notch!
Great plugin created and maintained by great people!

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### 󠀁[Simple, but effective](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/simple-but-effective-115/)󠁿

 [Nate Angell](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ixmati/) July 13, 2018

While it’s relatively easy to add open-source, standards-based Hypothesis annotation
to any website by adding just a line of code, this plugin makes it even easier and
enables some basic configuration controls such as limiting annotation to just post
or page types, excluding annotation on the home page, blog page, or specific posts/
pages, highlights on by default, sidebar open by default, etc. I agree it would 
be nice if the plugin supported custom content types beyond WP’s standard pages 
and posts.

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### 󠀁[Convenient and easy installation](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/convenient-and-easy-installation/)󠁿

 [jpolka](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jpolka/) March 3, 2018

Very simple to install, and I appreciate the options to customize when the sidebar
is displayed! One thing I’d love to request are shortcodes to open the sidebar, 
akin to the “Annotations” buttons eLife has implemented (example here: https://elifesciences.
org/articles/33220) This would help make the tool and any existing annotations more
visible.

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### 󠀁[Great plugin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-plugin-8979/)󠁿

 [trevorNanders](https://profiles.wordpress.org/trevornanders/) September 3, 2016

Works perfectly. No problems installing it. interface and integration are great.
The only Decent annotator plugin available IMO. One thing that would make it perfect:
allowing full integration in the wordpress install with annotations stored in the
database and users being able to annotate once logged in to the wordpress powered
website. This is the only real downside that each user/visitor to my website has
to register and login to hypothes.is in order to see and use the feature. Still,
a fantastic plugin.

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### 󠀁[Fantastic idea,](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fantastic-idea-2/)󠁿

 [kokdemir](https://profiles.wordpress.org/kokdemir/) September 3, 2016

That is a fantastic idea, I wish there were to be a wp user integration that syncs
with hypotesis database. This is a great feature for membership sites!

 [ Read all 7 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/hypothesis/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

“Hypothesis” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this
plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ dwhly ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dwhly/)
 *   [ timmmmyboy ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/timmmmyboy/)
 *   [ BigBlueHat ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/bigbluehat/)
 *   [ jakehartnell ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jakehartnell/)
 *   [ Ned Zimmerman ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/greatislander/)
 *   [ Alejandro Celaya ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/acelaya/)

“Hypothesis” has been translated into 2 locales. Thank you to [the translators](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/hypothesis/contributors)
for their contributions.

[Translate “Hypothesis” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/hypothesis)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hypothesis/), check
out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/hypothesis/), or subscribe
to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/hypothesis/) by 
[RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/hypothesis/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 0.7.5

 * Add support for WordPress up until v6.9

#### 0.7.4

 * Add support for WordPress up until v6.8

#### 0.7.3

 * Add new banner and logo

#### 0.7.2

 * Migrate to BSD-3-Clause license
 * Document third party integration
 * Use `Hypothesis` namespace in PHP code

#### 0.7.1

 * Do not include wp-cli.phar on releases

#### 0.7.0

 * Add support for WordPress v6
 * Update to WordPress coding standard v3

#### 0.6.0

 * Fix PDF links in multisite and other customized installations (props @boonbgorges).
 * Tested up to WordPress 5.2.2.
 * Updated to current WordPress Coding Standards.
 * Automated deploys to WordPress plugin directory.

#### 0.5.0

 * Fix an incompatibility with PHP < 5.4 introduced in the last release.
 * Load plugin textdomain.

#### 0.4.9

 * Add localization support.
 * Fix an error in options sanitization routine.

#### 0.4.8

 * Refactor per-post type settings for Hypothesis display.
 * Add `hypothesis_supported_posttypes` to allow developers to support their custom
   post types.

#### 0.4.0

 * Add customized embedding options
    - Show highlights by default
    - Sidebar open by default.
    - Disable click to close.

#### 0.3.0

 * Add option to allow on select pages or posts
 * Remove category IDs override

#### 0.2.0

Introduce settings panel and enabling/disabling functionality.
 – Adds Hypothesis
settings panel – Admins can now configure which pages, posts, or categories to load
Hypothes.is on.

#### 0.1.2

Bumped version to work out release process. No code changes.

#### 0.1.1

Relicensed under the BSD to match other Hypothesis projects.

#### 0.1

First!

## Meta

 *  Version **0.7.5**
 *  Last updated **4 months ago**
 *  Active installations **200+**
 *  WordPress version ** 6.2 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **6.9.0**
 *  PHP version ** 7.4 or higher **
 *  Languages
 * [English (Canada)](https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/hypothesis/), [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/hypothesis/),
   and [Spanish (Costa Rica)](https://es-cr.wordpress.org/plugins/hypothesis/).
 *  [Translate into your language](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/hypothesis)
 * Tags
 * [annotation](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/annotation/)[comments](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/comments/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/hypothesis/advanced/)

## Ratings

 4.9 out of 5 stars.

 *  [  6 5-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/hypothesis/reviews/?filter=5)
 *  [  1 4-star review     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/hypothesis/reviews/?filter=4)
 *  [  0 3-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/hypothesis/reviews/?filter=3)
 *  [  0 2-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/hypothesis/reviews/?filter=2)
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## Contributors

 *   [ dwhly ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dwhly/)
 *   [ timmmmyboy ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/timmmmyboy/)
 *   [ BigBlueHat ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/bigbluehat/)
 *   [ jakehartnell ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jakehartnell/)
 *   [ Ned Zimmerman ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/greatislander/)
 *   [ Alejandro Celaya ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/acelaya/)

## Support

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 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/hypothesis/)