diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2ff05d5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+![footnotes](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/media-competence-institute/footnotes/main/img/footnotes.png)
+
+# footnotes
+
+## Description
+
+Featured on [wpmudev](http://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/12-surprisingly-useful-wordpress-plugins-you-dont-know-about/) --- cheers for the review, folks!
+
+**footnotes** aims to be the all-in-one solution for displaying an automatically generated list of references on your Page or Post. The Plugin ships with a set of current defaults but also empowers you to control how your footnotes are being displayed.
+
+**footnotes** gives you the ability to display well-formatted footnotes on your WordPress Pages and Posts—those footnotes we know from offline publishing.
+
+## Getting Started
+
+1. Read the contributing guidelines
+1. Clone this repository (`git clone git@github.com:Rumperuu/footnotes.git`)
+1. Install [Composer](https://getcomposer.org/download/), if you don't have it already
+1. Install dependencies (`composer install`)
+1. Create a new branch from `main` (`git checkout -b <your-descriptive-branch-name>`)
+1. When you're finished, commit your changes to the remote version of your branch
+   and submit a [pull request](https://github.com/Rumperuu/footnotes/pulls).
+
+## Checking WP Coding Standard Compliance
+
+1. Run PHP_CodeSniffer on the file(s) you want to check (`./vendor/bin/phpcs --standard="WordPress" --colors --encoding=utf-8 -n -p <file(s)>`)
+1. (If applicable) run the PHP Code Beautifier and Formatter to attempt to automatically fix any errors (`./vendor/bin/phpcbf --standard="WordPress" --encoding=utf-8 -p <file(s)>`)
+  - Add the `-n` flag to ignore warnings (i.e., show only errors)
+	- Add the `-s` flag to show sniff codes (used for disabling errors in the code with `phpcs disable:<sniff code>` — MAKE SURE THAT YOU HAVE `phpcs enable` AT THE EARLIEST POINT POSSIBLE, and provide a justification for disabling the sniff code)
+  - You can run either across the entire project by adding the argument `--ignore=*/vendor/*` and targetting the file `./*.php ./**/*.php`
+
+## Updating Documentation
+
+1. Install [phpDocumentor](https://phpdoc.org/)
+1. Run it (`phpDocumentor -d . -t docs`)
+
+## Testing
+
+Unit tests are TODO.
+
+## Main Features
+
+- Fully customizable **footnotes** start and end shortcodes;
+- Styled tooltips supporting hyperlinks display **footnotes** or a dedicated text;
+- Responsive *Reference Container* at the end or positioned by shortcode;
+- Display the **footnotes** *Reference Container* inside a Widget;
+- Wide choice of numbering styles;
+- Freely configurable and optional backlink symbol;
+- Configure the **footnotes’** appearance by dashboard settings and Custom CSS style rules;
+- Button in both the Visual and the Text editor to add shortcodes around selection.
+
+## Example Usage
+
+These are a few examples of possible ways to delimit footnotes:
+
+1. Your awesome text((with an awesome footnote))
+2. Your awesome text[ref]with an awesome footnote[/ref]
+3. Your awesome text`<fn>`with an awesome footnote`</fn>`
+4. Your awesome text`custom-shortcode`with an awesome footnote`custom-shortcode`
+
+## Where to get footnotes?
+
+The current version is available on the [WordPress.org Plugin Directory](https://wordpress.org/plugins/footnotes/).
+
+## Acknowledgements
+
+Huge thanks to every footnotes user, contributor, bug reporter, feature requester and fan!
diff --git a/img/footnotes.png b/img/footnotes.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a4d82f6
Binary files /dev/null and b/img/footnotes.png differ