rangerhq-logbook/CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

All notable changes to A-WP-Notes are documented here. Format: Keep a Changelog 1.1.0 — versioning: SemVer.

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[Unreleased]

Changed — Banner moved to About page (side-by-side intro)

• Banner image removed from the Create-Note page. It was the first thing under the page title and took up significant vertical space before the user even saw the textarea. The Create-Note page is for doing, not for reading-about.
• Banner added to the top of the About page in a new side-by-side row: banner 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. Lives inside its own .wp-notes-about-intro block so it doesn't interact with the rest of the About page's nested toggles.
• .wp-notes-header-banner / .wp-notes-banner-img CSS removed from wp-notes-styles.php — no longer used.

Changed — Tier 1 UX cleanup

Single pass through wp_notes_page_callback() to remove the layout debt that had built up over previous releases. Functionality is unchanged; the page is shorter, has one H1, and stops contradicting itself.

• Single H1 on the page — was five (Welcome to WP Notes, Welcome to WP Notes v3.0.2, About WP Notes, What WP Notes Offers, What's New in WP Notes v3.0.2). Now: just WP Notes with the version chip alongside. Accessibility + SEO.
• "Welcome / About" content collapsed from THREE on-page surfaces (a dismissible top notice + a nested toggle + a manual "Show Welcome Message" button) down to a single one-line description that links to the dedicated About page where the long copy already lives.
• Duplicate "Toggle Welcome Section" buttons removed. Both outer and inner toggle buttons had the same label but different targets — genuinely confusing. Both gone.
• "What's New v3.0.0" embedded changelog block removed. It was hard-coded to v3.0.0 while the plugin reports v3.0.2 — the embed was lying. The real history lives in CHANGELOG.md now.
• "Buy me a coffee" button moved from page header to page footer — promo content should not be the first thing under the page title. Now sits at the bottom of the notes lists, centred, where footer items belong.
• Invalid HTML cleaned up — <li> tags outside <ul>, <p> tags wrapping <div> / <ul>. Was in the deleted welcome blob, so resolved by removal.
• Dead bulk-action UI removed — both the per-row checkboxes and the "Select all" header column in wp_notes_display_notes() and wp_notes_list_table() were rendered but nothing acted on the selection. Removed both, with an inline comment marking the spot for when real bulk-actions get wired up. Edit-form colspan adjusted (6 → 4) to match the new column count.
• Inline <style> and <script> blocks for the dismissed about-box (~80 lines of localStorage-based dismiss tracking and show/hide logic) deleted along with the about-box itself — WordPress's own notice notice-info is-dismissible and the user-meta dismissal API are the correct path if a banner needs to return.
• toggleSection() JS helper removed — no toggles remain on the page after the welcome-blob deletion.

Fixed (PHP 8.2 deprecation)

• ${size}px → {$size}px in the dashboard list-table render. ${var} string interpolation is deprecated in PHP 8.2 and will hard-error in PHP 9.

Notes

• The dedicated About page (Settings → WP Notes → About WP Notes) is unchanged and still renders wp_notes_about_page() from inc/wp-notes-about.php. All the long welcome/about copy lives there — exactly where it belongs.
• Banner image still renders, in its own bordered container at the top of the page. Moved out of the deleted nested toggle so it actually shows.
• Storage model is unchanged — notes still live in wp_options under wp_notes / wp_done_notes. The UX cleanup is purely presentational.

Fixed

• "Add New Note" sidebar submenu opening the WordPress post editor. The plugin registered a wp_note custom post type 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 WordPress post editor — but the live plugin stores notes in wp_options (get_option('wp_notes')), not as CPT posts. Saving in the post editor wrote to the wrong storage and the new note never appeared in the WP Notes list. Discovered 2026-05-25.

  Fixed by setting show_ui and show_in_menu to false on the wp_note CPT, and show_ui / show_admin_column / show_in_rest to false on the wp_note_category taxonomy. The CPT and taxonomy remain registered so wp_notes_migrate_to_cpt() can still use wp_insert_post() if/when the migration is run. The form on the actual WP Notes page (the one that POSTs to the same admin page) continues to work unchanged.

Notes

• The plugin currently uses two storage models: the active one is wp_options (key wp_notes, with completed notes in wp_done_notes). The CPT + meta storage is the target of an unfinished migration; the helper wp_notes_migrate_to_cpt() is defined but unused by the live UI. Until that migration is completed, hiding the CPT from the admin UI prevents users from accidentally writing to the wrong store.

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[3.0.2] — 2025-05-10 (last released version, baseline)

The v3 "without all the crap" release. Trimmed from the v1.1.5 feature-creep era which had bolted on:

• AI chat (multiple variants)
• AI personalities
• Journal mode
• Speedtest
• Tamagotchi (yes, really)
• Backup
• And more

v3 strips back to the essentials:

• Notes list (in wp_options)
• Create note form (color, size, font, emoji)
• Admin bar quick-access menu
• Settings page
• Import / Export
• About page
• Update checker

This baseline entry exists for historical context; future releases should keep adding entries above and remove this note once a real changelog history accrues.