I will not continue the development of this plugin for a period (few weeks or months).

About

Wordpress Admin Notepad is a plugin for wordpress 2.7+ (compatible up to WP 2.8) that allows selected user group to save or view notes as long as they are logged into admin panel.

Wordpress Admin Notepad automatically creates a show/hide notepad toggle at top right corner (beside log out link) so that admin can save their notes no matter where they are.

What’s New
- You can now configure the permission to view or edit the notes for the 4 user levels (editors, author, contributor and subscriber).
- You can now save the state of notepad (visible or hidden)

Info

- Compatible up to Wordpress 2.8.1 Beta 2
- Tested on WP 2.7.1, WP 2.8, WP 2.8.1 beta 2
- ONLY for WP 2.7 and above, that is after wordpress changes its admin panel

Known Issue

1. The notepad cannot identify you as the admin

You are having this problem if :

• You can’t see the notepad toggle on top right corner
• You can’t save notes (no permision)

The solutions :

• You can revert the plugin to version 1.0, i.e the version without permission control. However, PLEASE NOTE THAT this version is insecure because even subscriber (the lowest user level) can view and edit your notes once they are logged into admin panel. So use it at your own risk.
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• If you do not want to revert back to the insecure version, I am sorry but you have to search for another similar plugin.

Reason of this issue :

The function “get_currentuserinfo()” in the plugin does not run properly in your site.
There is only a few wordpress installation had this problem. Wordpress fails to identify you as an admin therefore you can’t save note & it hides the notepad from you.

If you can fix this issue please contact me.

Features

• Allows selected user groups to save notes at anywhere in admin panel
• The toggle at top right corner can be disable
• Save the state of notepad (visible or hidden)
• Configure the permission to view or edit the notes for the 4 user levels (editors, author, contributor and subscriber).
• Size of notepad can be personalized (slim or normal) and will be saved using cookie

Screenshots

Admin Options
Live Notepad

Installation

• Download the plugin package
• Extract and upload the “wordpress-admin-notepad” folder to your-wordpress-directory/wp-content/plugins/
• Activate the plugin and its ready

Usage

In admin panel, check out the top right corner of the page, you will see a link called “Note”. Click on it and a textarea will be there for you to save notes.

Frequently Asked Questions

My note failed to save

This happened to me without reason and I haven’t figure out why. However the fix is here. Use the Emergency Rescue feature at the plugin option page. It will delete the notes’ option row from your wordpress database like a fresh install.

Download the Latest Version

WordPress Admin Notepad 1.1.1 - 2,610 downloads

Change Log

Version 1.1.1
- Wordpress Admin Notepad now supports cyrilic texts

Version 1.1
- User can now change size of notepad (this personal setting will be saved using cookie)
- Saving the state of notepad (visible or invisible) is available for you to leave note for other admins or editors.
- Added permission settings for the 5 user levels to view or edit the notes
- Added function htmlspecialchars to textarea content

Version 1.0.4
Fixed some javascript errors in MSIE and Firefox.
Fixed an error that causes the toggle not showing in wordpress 2.7

Version 1.0.3
Fixed an error in hiding the notepad toggle link at top right corner

Version 1.0.2
Added Emergency Rescue feature in case the note failed to save (it might happen, I haven’t figure out the reason yet, but the fix is here, see FAQ)

Version 1.0.1
Fixed a bug during note submission using ajax

Version 1.0
- First version of Wordpress Admin Notepad

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