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Dashboard Notepad
The very simplest of notepads for your Dashboard. The widget settings allow you to choose which roles can edit the notes, and which roles can merely read them. Based on Alex Günsche’s Headache With Pictures.
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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?
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Sure, Matt, that’s a really easy feature to add. Look for an updated version later today.
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
It’s there now. Let me know how it goes.
works perfect. love it! thanks
how to make the note posibble read by guest ?
gege, it should be already. If not, use the configuration screen and change the second dropdown to ‘Subscribers… can read the notes.’
… oh, once again I’ve read too quickly. You’re right, users would still have to be logged in. Let me see what I can do.
OK, gege, look for version 1.21 in a few minutes. It has an option to allow the public to read the notes.
thanks for your fast action.but after i change the read permission for public the dashboard disappear from my wp dashboard
Thanks, gege, I overlooked another line of code that needed to be changed! Version 1.22 should show up on wordpress.org in a few minutes.
thanks stephanie..you rock :)
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?
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.
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.
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?
oh sorry, didn’t know that tags won’t work in comments.
http://i.imgur.com/OANBMl.jpg
Well, that’s no good! I’ll take a look over the weekend and see what’s going on.
Hi Stephanie! Thanx for this wonderful plugin. How can I activate another language?
The only languages available right now are English and Belorussian. If you would like to translate the plugin, see the Codex page on translations. The POT file is in the plugin’s languages folder.
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?
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!
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.
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!
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.
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.
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 :)
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.