Peter's Post Notes

Add admin notes to posts, pages and custom post types, right on the edit screen. Leave editorial notes for your writers, reminders for yourself, or feedback for your team. Only logged-in users who can edit the content see the notes. Visitors never see them.

It is a simple, lightweight way to collaborate on content inside WordPress, without email threads or external tools.

Works with: the block editor, the classic editor, and any post type with an admin edit screen.

Under new ownership

Peter’s Post Notes has a new maintainer. Version 2.0.0 is a full security and compatibility update for current WordPress and PHP versions, including full block editor support. Existing notes and settings are kept and upgraded automatically. A big thank you to Peter (@pkthree), the original author, and to everyone who has used and translated the plugin over the years.

Who is it for?

✍️ Editorial teams and blogs: editors leave feedback on drafts; writers reply before publishing.

💼 Agencies and freelancers: keep client instructions and to-dos next to the page they belong to.

🙋 Solo site owners: private reminders on posts and pages (“update this in January”, “check links”).

👥 Multi-author sites: see the latest notes on the posts you care about, straight from the dashboard.

Features

⭐ Notes box on the edit screen of posts, pages and any custom post type you enable. Works in the block editor (Gutenberg) and the classic editor.

⭐ Instant saving: add, edit and delete notes without saving or reloading the post.

⭐ Private notes that only you can see, alongside shared team notes.

⭐ Collaboration Notes dashboard widget: the latest notes on posts you wrote or commented on.

⭐ General Notes dashboard widget: team-wide announcements and personal notes, with paging.

⭐ Latest note column in the posts and pages lists, so you can see open feedback at a glance.

⭐ Role and capability permissions: choose who can see all notes, who can edit anyone’s notes, and who can post team-wide notes.

⭐ Basic HTML in notes (the same tags allowed in comments). Turn it on or off in Settings > Peter’s Post Notes.

⭐ Secure by design: nonce-protected REST API, escaped output and permission checks on every request.

⭐ Translation ready: help translate it on translate.wordpress.org.

Documentation and support

📖 Documentation: setup and a guide for every feature, from adding notes to permissions and upgrading from 1.x.

🛟 Support forum: questions and bug reports. We answer every topic.

✉️ Contact us: anything that is not a support question.

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Privacy

Notes are stored in your own WordPress database. The plugin does not send data to any external service and adds nothing to the front end of your site.