# Changelog
All notable changes to **A-WP-Notes** are documented here.
Format: [Keep a Changelog 1.1.0](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.1.0/) — versioning: [SemVer](https://semver.org/).
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## [Unreleased]
### Fixed — Duplicate "Create a New WP Note" form at the bottom of My Notes
A second, bare-bones *"Create a New WP Note"* form was being
rendered at the **bottom** of the My Notes page, below the active
and completed lists. The form at the **top** (the proper `Add New
Note` postbox with color/size/font/emoji controls) is the intended
one — the bottom one was a duplicate, redundant from a UX standpoint.
**Root cause:** WordPress registers BOTH the parent menu's callback
AND a submenu's callback against the same page hook when the two
share a `menu_slug`. When `?page=wp-notes` is requested, both fire
in registration order. The submenu was passing `wp_notes_create_page`
as its callback (a separate bare-form renderer used by the
Tools-menu shortcut), so its output was getting appended below the
main page.
**Fix:** the My Notes submenu now passes an **empty string** as the
callback — the standard WP pattern when a submenu just relabels the
parent (same slug, same target page). Only the parent's
`wp_notes_page_callback` renders now. The `wp_notes_create_page`
function is unchanged and still serves the Tools → My Notes
shortcut at `?page=wp-notes-create`.
### Fixed — Empty-state notice ("No notes found") now dismissible
The "No active notes found" / "No completed notes found" inline
notice on the My Notes page rendered with `class="notice notice-info"`
but no `is-dismissible` modifier, so WordPress's core common.js
never attached an X close button to it. Users couldn't clear the
message for the current view. Adding `is-dismissible` is the only
change — WP core handles the X button render + click-to-hide
automatically. Dismissal is per-page-load (the message reappears on
next refresh if the list is still empty); persistence across
reloads would need user_meta tracking and isn't built yet.
**Notice inventory after this fix** — every notice the plugin emits
is now both dismissible AND only fires in its intended state:
| Notice | Class | Fires when |
|---|---|---|
| "No active/completed notes found" | `notice notice-info is-dismissible` | List is empty |
| Migration prompt | `notice notice-info is-dismissible` | `wp_notes_migration_completed` option is unset |
| Settings save / import errors / import success | rendered by core `settings_errors()` (auto-dismissible since WP 4.2) | Only on form submission events |
### Changed — Removed duplicate smiley-face button on the emoji picker
The "Add emoji" formatting option rendered two clickable elements
stacked: the *"Click to add emoji"* text input AND a separate button
beside it with a smiley-face dashicon. Both opened the same dropdown
picker — visually duplicated and slightly confusing. The standalone
button has been removed; clicking the input itself still opens the
picker (the JS already wired both targets to the same handler).
Keyboard navigation (Enter/Space to toggle, Escape to close)
follows focus to the input instead of the now-gone button.
Orphaned `.emoji-picker-button` CSS rule deleted.
### Changed — Menu labels: "Create WP Note" → "My Notes", "About WP Notes" → "About"
- **"Create WP Note" submenu renamed to "My Notes"** (both in the WP
Notes parent menu and the Tools → quick-access shortcut). The page
is the central dashboard — create form + active list + completed
list + edit + restore — so "Create" was misleadingly narrow.
"My Notes" matches the WP-native `Posts → All Posts` pattern.
- **"About WP Notes" submenu renamed to just "About".** The WP Notes
brand is already carried by the parent menu, so the submenu can be
plain-spoken.
- **About page H1 trimmed** to match the Tier-1 style on the main
page: `About
` + version chip instead of the old
*"Welcome to WP Notes About Page v3.0.2"* mouthful. Same
`wp-heading-inline` + `page-title-action` + `wp-header-end` recipe.
- Removed a redundant nested `