WP_PostNotes

August 24th, 2008

WP_PostNotes is a free WordPress plug-in that allows you to add notes to any post that will only be visible to the author or named users. Originally conceived for inclusion in to the WP_Submission plug-in to store information About the submission that is not to be shown to the public.

Installing WP_PostNotes

  • download WP_PostNotes.
  • Copy to your ‘wp-content/plugins‘ directory.
  • Log in with an administration account.
  • Select the ‘Plugins‘ tab.
  • Scroll down to ‘WP_PostNotes’ and click ‘activate‘.

Upgrading

With the release of WordPress 2.5, WordPress now supports BBCode style shortcodes. Which means the preferred method of inserting content into is post via a plugin is with [] instead of <!– –>. With this in mind WP_PostNotes now has support for this method. Once WordPress 2.5 is the predominant version, the <!– –>method will be dropped, and the plug-in rewritten to use the internal API calls, hopefully meaning for a more efficient plugin.
To upgrade previous postnote already in you posts

You can choose to either manually update posts from the list provided or choose to autoupdate.

Usage

To use WP_PostNotes insert the following BBCode shortcode into your post where you would like the note form to appear.

[postnote title="demo" user1="user"]

{note}

[/postnote]

The Attributes

  • title
    • Purpose: The optional title of the note.
  • user1
    • Purpose: Define the users which can see see the note. Replace user1 with any unique key setting the value to the user you wish to add. This can be repeated as needed
    • Default: Only the author will see the note.
  • {note}
    • Purpose: Replace {note} with anyt text you like.

where {note} is the note you wish to hide.

All attributes are optional.

The ‘title’ attribute will be displayed as the title of the postnote.

The value of all other attributes will be taken as the user name of users you wish to allow to see the note.

Version History

  • 1.0.0
    • Initial public release.
  • 2.0.0
    • Recoded to match other plug-in standards
  • 2.5.0
    • Changed to BBCode tags.
    • Added user support.
    • Added upgrade to BBCode options.
  • 2.5.1
    • Internal compatibility upgrade

Other Plug-ins

If you liked this plug-in visits our download area where you will find many more.

Bugs & Suggestions

If you have questions, have found any bugs, or you would like to see features added to WP_PostNotes please feel free to use the form at the bottom of the page to Contact us. If WP_PostNotes doesn’t fill your needs , feel free to Contact us to discuss a specially commissioned plug-in.

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  1. March 17th, 2008 at 05:07 | #1

    Hi,
    The download button on this page says ‘Download WP_PostDate’ although it links to WP_PostNotes (which it should).
    Maybe you should rename the link?
    Also, I was a little confused about where to actually press to download the plugin as the image of the HDD with the arrow wasn’t part of the <a href> tage, so wasn’t clickable.

  2. March 17th, 2008 at 12:27 | #2

    Thank you this has been corrected

  3. June 24th, 2008 at 18:32 | #3

    Just the plugin I was looking for, I’m amazed that WordPress didn’t think to include this functionality. Thank you!

  4. subpixel
    August 17th, 2008 at 22:44 | #4

    Accessing content via “feed” (wp-feed.php) seems to censor [postnote] content (or allow it if the relevant user is currently logged in), but accessing content via “rss” (wp-rss.php) shows the [postnote] tag and the contents in plain text.

    What other ways does WordPress leak information?

  5. August 17th, 2008 at 23:03 | #5

    It does appear that the rss output is treated differently than the feed output, even though the feed is rss.
    We’ll look into a possible solution to fix this problem.

  6. subpixel
    August 18th, 2008 at 00:04 | #6

    I have been looking at some options to make a blog private.

    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/private-wp/ doesn’t make feed/rss private. Crap!

    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/accessqontrol/ redirects both feed and rss to the login screen if you’re not logged in. Seems pretty good. Perhaps have a look inside to see how it works (maybe it blocks other ways to access content).

    Cheers.

  7. August 18th, 2008 at 09:05 | #7

    Thanks, I’ll take a look.

  8. confused
    August 24th, 2008 at 12:38 | #8

    How do I use this plugin?

    I don’t see the bbcode syntax code under the Usage section (ie. shouldn’t something be listed like [pnotes]private note[/pnotes]?… I’ve loaded this instruction page with both IE and Firefox… am I missing something? Thx…

  9. August 24th, 2008 at 21:55 | #9

    he he :)
    There is a small bug in the demonstration part of the latest version that has gone unnoticed, meaning there is no test mode. This has the affect that the given example is being removed by the plugin itself.

    For now to recap here is the example
    [postnote title="demo" user1="user"]

    {note}

    [/postnote]

  1. September 24th, 2008 at 17:15 | #1