release: 3.0.2 → 3.1.0

A single-day UX polish + bug-fix release. Nine prior commits worth
of work culminating today:

- Hidden phantom wp_note CPT submenus that misrouted Add New Note
  to the standard WP post editor (commit 05d8ad5).
- Tier 1 page-callback cleanup: single H1, collapsed triple
  about/welcome surfaces, removed duplicate Toggle Welcome buttons,
  deleted lying v3.0.0 embedded changelog, moved Buy-Me-A-Coffee
  header → footer, removed dead bulk-action checkboxes,
  PHP 8.2 ${size}px → {$size}px deprecation (commit 930e605).
- Banner moved from My Notes page top to About page as a 320px-wide
  side-by-side intro row (commit 868911d).
- Menu rename: "Create WP Note" → "My Notes",
  "About WP Notes" → "About"; About page H1 trimmed to match Tier 1
  style (commit b34d2d8).
- Removed the duplicate smiley-face button beside the emoji input
  (commit 3f881b0).
- Made the "No notes found" empty-state notice dismissible
  (commit 71df974).
- Fixed the duplicate "Create a New WP Note" form rendering at the
  bottom of the My Notes page — root cause was WP firing both
  parent and submenu callbacks for the shared menu_slug
  (commit c773a21).
- Added persistent per-user dismissal of the empty-state notice via
  user_meta + AJAX, so closing it stays closed across page reloads
  (commit 35920fe).
- Removed the Tools → My Notes shortcut and added a backward-
  compatible redirect for stale ?page=wp-notes-create bookmarks
  (commit 3801cc2).

Bump:
- wp-notes.php header Version: 3.0.2 → 3.1.0
- WP_NOTES_VERSION constant 3.0.2 → 3.1.0
- CHANGELOG [Unreleased] block moved under [3.1.0] - 2026-05-25

No data migration required. Storage model unchanged (wp_options).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -7,6 +7,17 @@ Format: [Keep a Changelog 1.1.0](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.1.0/) — versi
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+---
+
+## [3.1.0] — 2026-05-25
+
+A single-day UX polish + bug-fix release. Nine commits worth of
+work, focused on the main "My Notes" admin page: stripping out
+years of layout debt, tightening the menu structure, removing
+duplicates, and adding the per-user persistent dismissal of the
+empty-state notice. No data migration required; storage model
+unchanged (notes still live in `wp_options`).
+
 ### Removed — Tools → My Notes shortcut (with backward-compatible redirect)
 The "Tools → My Notes" admin menu shortcut has been removed. It
 routed to a separate bare-bones form at `?page=wp-notes-create`

wp-notes.php

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
  * Plugin Name: A-WP-Notes
  * Plugin URI: https://icanhelp.ie/wp-notes
  * Description: A plugin to add your notes to the WordPress dashboard with import/export functionality
- * Version: 3.0.2
+ * Version: 3.1.0
  * Requires at least: 5.0
  * Requires PHP: 7.2
  * Author: IR240474
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ if (!isset($wp_notes_init)) {
     $wp_notes_init = true;
     
     // Plugin Constants
-    if (!defined('WP_NOTES_VERSION')) define('WP_NOTES_VERSION', '3.0.2');
+    if (!defined('WP_NOTES_VERSION')) define('WP_NOTES_VERSION', '3.1.0');
     if (!defined('WP_NOTES_FILE')) define('WP_NOTES_FILE', __FILE__);
     if (!defined('WP_NOTES_PATH')) define('WP_NOTES_PATH', plugin_dir_path(__FILE__));
     if (!defined('WP_NOTES_URL')) define('WP_NOTES_URL', plugin_dir_url(__FILE__));