79 Comments

  1. matt November 14, 2009 at 7:17 am

    i really love your dashboard notepad plugin. i wonder if it’s possible to show the dashboard notes on anywhere on the wordpress theme itself. I want to add kind of a meta section where all notes of the notepad are shown on the frontend. ist this possible?

    regards

  3. matt November 14, 2009 at 12:07 pm

    thank you, great. can you send me an email or post a comment here, so that i know when i can download it.

    now it’s the perfect plugin. love it.

    thank you and regards
    matt

  8. gege November 17, 2009 at 2:54 am

    thanks for your fast action.but after i change the read permission for public the dashboard disappear from my wp dashboard

  11. Spoony December 15, 2009 at 9:58 pm

    Thank you for this great and simple plugin. Is there any chance to have several notepads whith the possibility to show selected ones to the public?

    • Stephanie December 15, 2009 at 10:00 pm

      Sorry, Spoony, not at the moment. If you’re comfortable editing PHP, you could make a copy of the plugin and replace all instances of “notepad” with some other word, and get multiple copies that way.

  12. Spoony December 16, 2009 at 2:27 am

    Thank you for the quick reply. I will have a look into the .php files. In fact I just like to have one on the Dashboard for internal notes and another for public notes.

  13. Matt February 12, 2010 at 3:44 am

    I might have discovered a little bug with your dashboard notepad in IE7. However this might not be your fault, but the fault of the wordpress core.

    if i use your shortcode…
    it works fine in every browser except for ie6 and ie7!
    and that’s because the shortcode gets compiled into this

    Enter here whatever is on your mind. at the end. This causes ie6 and ie7 to wrap the rest of the website to a mess. Have you any ideas how to solve that problem?

  16. Silencer February 16, 2010 at 3:50 pm

    Thanx for the quick reply. Sorry for the beginner questions, but where do I put the dashboard-notepad-de_DE.po & dashboard-notepad-de_DE.mo and how do I activate them?

  17. Stephanie February 16, 2010 at 6:47 pm

    Place those two files in the languages directory, next to the .POT file. The new language should load automatically.

    If you will send me your files, I will include them in the next release!

  18. Norty February 19, 2010 at 9:33 am

    Hi Stephanie, thank you so much for this nice litte plugin. As the values are stored somewhere, is there a way to display the note somewhere on my theme by a template tag.

  19. Norty February 19, 2010 at 11:26 am

    Ok i got it. i noticed that the its “global” so i just created a function in my template’s functions.php and can get the value of the single notepads by calling this function, of cours.
    On the website:
    When I am logged as Admin the field appears unformatted just the way it looks at the admin-dashboard …so i can directly edit the value(message) on the site -> fabulous.
    As being loggedOut (or logged as something under admin eg. subcriber) there is no option to edit and the message appears formatted as it should.
    Absolutely perfect.
    Again Thank you for the smart plugin!

  20. Silencer February 20, 2010 at 10:51 pm

    Hi Stephanie,
    I placeed the two files in the languages directory of your plugin, but nothing happened. The the WP config.php (‘WPLANG’, ‘de_DE’) is set and isn the PO file the correct language is set as well.

  21. Mika February 25, 2010 at 8:41 pm

    Hi Stephanie,
    Wonderful plugin, thanks. I just need a second instance of it. I tried to create it by the following steps:
    1) copy all files to a directory called dashboard-notepad2
    2) replace all ‘notepad’ with ‘notepad2′ with a script “find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 sed -i ‘s/notepad/notepad2/g’”
    3) rename dashboard-notepad.php to dashboard-notepad2.php
    4) edit dashboard-notepad2.php third line to be “Plugin Name: Dashboard Notepad2″

    After this I tried to activate the plugin, but I received an error message “Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.” I just wish the error message to be more informative :)

    I’ll continue fighting on this, but if you have an answer I would like to hear.

    • Mika February 25, 2010 at 9:00 pm

      I found the reason for fatal error. The function dashboard_notes() was declared already in the first plugin causing the error when my second plugin tried to declare the function with the same name. So I changed the name of this function and all places where it was called by a script “find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 sed -i ‘s/dashboard_notes/dashboard_notepad2_notes/g’”

      Now my second instance gets activated :)

  22. dreaminker March 1, 2010 at 6:01 am

    Recently installed this excellent plugin. Thank you!
    But it seems that there is a conflict with the WP-Print plugin. Each time I activate Dashboard Notepad, the “Print This Post” link disappears from the “PostHeaderIcons” of all my post. Thanks in advance for any help.

  23. Silvio September 6, 2010 at 11:52 am

    Thank you for this useful plugin. Using it I would like to make a “copy” of main status widget of wordpress, but showing only some informations, like numbers of articles, comments, and not, for example, theme used, and so on. Is possible to do with Dashboard Notepad?

    In this screenshot I highlighted information that I would to hide.
    http://img375.imageshack.us/i/selezione078.png/

    Thanks!

  24. Stephanie December 21, 2010 at 3:51 pm

    I’ve just sent version 1.30 to the plugin repository. Please note that you’ll need to redo your role settings on the notepad widget’s configuration screen after upgrading! This fixes a bug in the way roles were handled in previous versions.

  25. Marc December 21, 2010 at 4:42 pm

    I just upgraded and the notepad has disappeared. I can’t find any configuration screen for the plugin. Wha happa?

  26. Toni December 22, 2010 at 1:15 am

    I love this little plugin – very helpful for my collaborative blog. However, I just did an automatic upgrade to 1.31 and I’m getting the following error message:

    Warning: array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #1 is not an array in /home/domain/public_html/wp-content/plugins/dashboard-notepad/dashboard-notepad.php on line 84

    Warning: array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #1 is not an array in /home/domain/public_html/wp-content/plugins/dashboard-notepad/dashboard-notepad.php on line 91

  27. Max December 22, 2010 at 5:13 am

    Hi, I have the same problem after the last update 1.31, all the notepad has dissapeared.
    Waiting for news.
    Best Regards.
    Max

  28. Kyokai December 22, 2010 at 7:31 am

    I haven’t upgraded to WP 3.0.3 and today when I upgraded to the new version of plugin, it’s showing the following error and it has disappeared from the Dashboard:

    Warning: array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #1 is not an array in ***/wp-content/plugins/dashboard-notepad/dashboard-notepad.php on line 84

    Warning: array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #1 is not an array in ***/wp-content/plugins/dashboard-notepad/dashboard-notepad.php on line 93

  29. Doug December 22, 2010 at 10:05 am

    Warning: array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #1 is not an array in /wordpress/wp-content/plugins/dashboard-notepad/dashboard-notepad.php on line 82

  30. Stephanie December 22, 2010 at 10:34 am

    Oh my. Obviously, I broke something. I’m so sorry. I’ll get it fixed as soon as I can.

    If one of you can grab the contents of the dashboard_notepad entry in your wp_options table and either paste it into a comment here or email it to me (steph at sillybean.net), that would really help me figure out what went wrong.

  31. Dustin December 22, 2010 at 11:39 am

    I have 3.0.3 and when I tried to Automatically upgrade it to this new version, I get two errors that show up on the dashboard.

    Warning: array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #1 is not an array in /wp-content/plugins/dashboard-notepad/dashboard-notepad.php on line 83

    Warning: array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #1 is not an array in /wp-content/plugins/dashboard-notepad/dashboard-notepad.php on line 94

  32. Stephanie December 22, 2010 at 2:09 pm

    Thanks, everyone. I’ve just sent an update (1.32) to the plugin repository. It should fix the error messages.

  33. Marc December 22, 2010 at 3:28 pm

    Ok, now I’m confused… :p
    I just updated the plugin to 1.32 and it disappears from the dashboard?! And now option to bring it back?

    • Stephanie December 22, 2010 at 3:49 pm

      Marc, I’m confused too. I don’t understand why your notepad disappeared, and I’m not sure I understand your latest comment. Can you try uninstalling the plugin, and then reinstalling it?

  34. Kenneth December 22, 2010 at 4:16 pm

    I also upgraded to latest version (1.32) on WordPress 3.03 and the notepad disappeared from dashboard.

    I tried to uninstall en reinstall but still it’s gone.

    In dashboard_notepad in wp_options I find the following text;


    a:5:{s:5:"notes";s:187:"För utdrag:

    Kolla över etiketter";s:8:"can_edit";s:14:"edit_dashboard";s:8:"can_read";s:4:"read";s:13:"notepad_title";s:7:"Notepad";s:5:"autop";s:0:"";}

  35. Stephanie December 22, 2010 at 5:07 pm

    I was finally able to reproduce the problem! It’s fixed in 1.33, which is available now.

    Sorry for all the glitches, everyone!

  37. Max December 23, 2010 at 2:42 am

    Hallo!I upgrade the last version 1.33 and now all works perfectly!
    Many thanks for Your kindly support :-)
    Best regards, Max
    …by the way… merry christmas and happy new year

  38. Toni December 23, 2010 at 8:50 pm

    Just an FYI – it isn’t totally fixed! Just went to edit my notepad and it won’t let me add any text and there is no save button.

    Thanks!!

    • Stephanie December 23, 2010 at 9:35 pm

      Have you checked off at least the Administrator role under the widget’s configuration screen, as a role that can edit the notes?

      • Toni December 27, 2010 at 5:38 pm

        I just came to check in and saw your reply. I went back to the configuration screen and Administrator and Editor were already checked off. I went ahead and saved and, when I did so, that seemed to fix it. I’m now able to edit and save. Thanks so much! Have a great New Year!

  42. Matt February 18, 2011 at 4:41 am

    Hey sillybean, the dashboard notepad plugin is just perfect. One last feature is missing though – Setting the height of the notepad widget in the preferences. If there are more lines in it a scrollbar appears – that’s fine. However when you have almost no other widgets visible in your dashboard (and you have a rather big screen) it would be nice to have just more space for the notepad – so no scrollbar is needed and all notes can be read at once.

    Just an idea, I would love to see that.
    cheers

  43. travis March 3, 2011 at 8:52 am

    When trying to save the dashboard note, (in dashboard, WP 3.05) – i get a 404 Error! Any suggestions would be so great!

    • Stephanie March 23, 2011 at 11:51 am

      Travis, are you by chance working with a multisite setup? If so, does it use subdomains or subdirectories?

  44. Tom March 23, 2011 at 4:15 am

    Hi
    thanks for this great Plugin! ;)
    But one question. It is possible to change the font color of the notes?

    • Stephanie March 23, 2011 at 12:15 pm

      When you’re showing the notes, you can modify the appearance by adding a style for div#dashboard-notes in your theme’s stylesheet. On the Dashboard, I did not include an option to change the color. You could hack the plugin — the CSS begins on line 50 — but you’d lose those changes the next time you upgrade.

  45. Erik April 17, 2011 at 10:04 am

    This plug-in would be perfect if it would display the same message an admin enters accross all wpmu installations. Is htis possible?

  46. rajaito April 18, 2011 at 5:01 pm

    Everything seems to work perfect for me except for one thing.

    Dashboard is not showing notes for users with author role. However, if I set it for Contributor, Author can see the notes. This would be ok, but I do not actually want the contributors to see the notes.

    Please advise.

    wordpress 3.1

  48. jensncb May 24, 2011 at 5:29 am

    hi,

    is it possible to make things like [b][/b] and [u][/u] work to highlight special words? if so, how? :D

    WP 3.1.2

  49. Dave Karow May 30, 2011 at 1:17 pm

    Very handy plugin, but it would be even better if I could include some limited HTML (a href links are all that I need). I want to “welcome” new authors to their Dashboard with this and provide a few links to get them started. I put some href’s in there but they come through as plain text instead of links. Any chance you can add that, or better yet that I just need a handy tip to make it work as is?

  50. luis June 11, 2011 at 1:04 pm

    Great plugin.

    Is there a way to use this plugin as a way for users to post notes for individual pages/post.

    Usres register in the blog to be able to post notes and they can add/see/edit/delete their own notes associated to each page/post that have notes.

    • Stephanie June 11, 2011 at 3:18 pm

      No, it won’t work for individual entries. You could use my Content Audit plugin instead. It’s a little bit overkill for that purpose, though. You might look around the repository and see if there are any other plugins that just add a single textbox custom field to posts and pages.

  51. Tom June 30, 2011 at 12:04 am

    Hi,

    I install the new Version 1.37 with the german translation.
    But nothing happened. The WP config.php (‘WPLANG’, ‘de_DE’) is set. But the Plugin is still in english.