The "Create WP Note" submenu was misleadingly narrow — that page is
the central dashboard (create form + active list + completed list +
edit + restore). Renamed to "My Notes" to match the WP-native
"Posts → All Posts" pattern and reflect that users land there for
everything, not just creation.
"About WP Notes" → "About": the WP Notes brand is already carried by
the parent menu, so the submenu can be plain-spoken.
CHANGES
- wp-notes.php: WP Notes submenu "Create WP Note" → "My Notes"
- wp-notes.php: Tools menu shortcut "Create WP Note" → "My Notes"
(same target page)
- wp-notes.php: WP Notes submenu "About WP Notes" → "About"
- wp-notes.php: callback docblock updated to reflect new name
- inc/wp-notes-about.php: page H1 trimmed to match the Tier-1 style
on the main page (h1 "About" + version chip + wp-header-end hr),
replacing the previous "Welcome to WP Notes About Page v3.0.2"
- inc/wp-notes-about.php: removed a redundant nested
<div id="header"> with display:none that was dead markup leftover
from an older layout
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The banner image was the first thing under the page title on the
Create-Note page — taking significant vertical space before the user
saw the textarea. The Create-Note page is for *doing*, not for
*reading-about*.
CHANGES
- Banner removed from wp_notes_page_callback() — Create-Note page
now opens straight into the form.
- Banner added to the top of the About page in a new side-by-side
row: image on the left capped at 320px wide (not full-bleed), and
a short intro paragraph + "Go to WP Notes →" CTA on the right.
Stacks vertically on narrow screens via flex-wrap.
- The side-by-side block lives in its own .wp-notes-about-intro
container so it doesn't tangle with the rest of the About page's
pre-existing nested toggles (those are still on the Tier 2 list).
- .wp-notes-header-banner / .wp-notes-banner-img CSS removed from
wp-notes-styles.php — no longer referenced anywhere.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Single-pass UX cleanup of the main WP Notes admin page. Functionality
unchanged; the page is shorter, has one H1, and stops contradicting
itself.
CHANGES
- Single H1 on the page (was five different H1s).
- Welcome/about content collapsed from THREE on-page surfaces (top
dismissible notice + nested toggle + Show/Close button row) to one
single description line linking to the dedicated About page where
the long copy already lives.
- Two duplicate "Toggle Welcome Section" buttons with the SAME label
but different targets — both removed.
- Embedded "What's New v3.0.0" changelog block deleted: it was
hard-coded to v3.0.0 while the plugin reports v3.0.2. The real
history is in CHANGELOG.md.
- "Buy me a coffee" button moved from page header to page footer —
promo shouldn't be the first thing under the page title.
- Invalid HTML cleaned up (li outside ul, p wrapping div/ul) by way
of removing the welcome blob that contained it.
- Dead bulk-action UI removed: per-row checkboxes and "Select all"
header in both wp_notes_display_notes() and wp_notes_list_table()
rendered but nothing acted on the selection. Removed with inline
comments marking the spot for when real bulk-actions land. Edit
form colspan adjusted to match the new column count.
- ~80 lines of inline style+script for the about-box dismissal
removed (localStorage tracking, show/hide handlers, two style
blocks). WordPress's notice notice-info is-dismissible + user-meta
is the right path if a banner needs to return.
- toggleSection() JS helper removed (no toggles remain).
- Small CSS additions to inc/wp-notes-styles.php for the header
banner and footer-support link.
ALSO FIXED
- PHP 8.2 deprecation: ${size}px → {$size}px in the dashboard
list-table render. ${var} interpolation is deprecated since 8.2
and will hard-error in 9.0.
NET DIFF: wp-notes.php -213 lines, total -111 lines across 4 files
(plus a new CHANGELOG entry). Storage model unchanged.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The plugin registered a wp_note CPT with show_ui=true and show_in_menu=
'wp-notes', which caused WordPress to auto-inject "All Notes" and
"Add New" submenus under the WP Notes admin menu. The "Add New"
submenu routed to post-new.php?post_type=wp_note — the standard WP
post editor — but the live plugin stores notes in wp_options
(get_option('wp_notes')), not as CPT posts. Anyone clicking that
submenu ended up writing to the wrong storage and their note never
appeared in the WP Notes list.
Fix: show_ui and show_in_menu set to false on the wp_note CPT, and
show_ui / show_admin_column / show_in_rest set to false on the
wp_note_category taxonomy. The CPT/taxonomy remain registered so the
wp_notes_migrate_to_cpt() helper can still call wp_insert_post() —
just no admin UI side-effects until the migration is completed and
the live storage swaps over.
Also adds CHANGELOG.md in Keep-a-Changelog format with the
[Unreleased] entry for this fix and a 3.0.2 baseline note for the
"trimmed from v1.1.5 feature-creep" lineage.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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