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If you want to be able to write notes easily and quickly on the Dashboard this plugin is for you. Easy Notes is a simple and minimalistic notes plugin which makes life easier for webmasters and coders. No bells and whistles – only a simple and elegant notepad working straight out of the box.
Features 
– Simple and minimalistic. 
– Works out of the box. 
– No settings to configure. 
– Data saved in your WordPress database. 
– Accessible via the dashboard.
Do not hesitate to give feedback or request features!

Easy Notes

A very simple plugin for taking notes on your dahsboard.

Mickey Kay

MIGHTYminnow

The plugin <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/classic-widgets/" rel="ugc">Classic Widgets</a> is needed (this plugin doesn’t work with Gutenberg).
Compatible with PHP 8.2
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Dashboard Notes lets you create super simple notes and instructions for your clients within the WordPress dashboard. Choose the color of the notification, whether or not to include a logo, and exactly what pages to include the notification on (uses simple URL matching).
<h4>Usage</h4>
<ol>
<li>Install the Dashboard Notes.</li>
<li>Go to Appearance > Widgets where you will see a new “Dashboard Notes” sidebar.</li>
<li>To create a note, simply drag a new widget into the sidebar and give it some content (we typically use a text/HTML widget).</li>
<li>Once you’ve added content to the widget, click save, and the Dashboard Notes settings for this widget will appear.</li>
<li>Adjust the settings to meet your needs, and click save when you’re done.</li>
<li>Refresh, or navigate to any page to see your new note in action.</li>
<li>Use the plugin settings found via Settings > Dashboard Notes to choose which user roles can/can’t see the notices.</li>
</ol>
<h4>Credits</h4>
Special thanks to <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/kasparsd/" rel="nofollow ugc">Kaspars Dambis</a> for his work on <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/widget-context/" rel="ugc">Widget Context</a> – much of this project is based on that code.

Dashboard Notes

Easily create notes/instructions in the WordPress admin using any widget you like!

Easy Notes vs Dashboard Notes