rangerhq-logbook/CHANGELOG.md

# 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]

### 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: `<h1>About</h1>` + 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 `<div id="header">` with `display: none`
  on the About page — it was dead markup leftover from an older
  layout.

### 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.