Dashboard Widget for Blocks Collaboratives Notes
Dashboard Widget for Blocks Collaboratives Notes
Description
WordPress 6.9 introduces Notes, a feature that lets users leave contextual feedback at the block level inside the editor.
Dashboard Widget for Blocks Collaboratives Notes adds a compact dashboard widget that lists the Gutenberg Notes assigned to the current user.
The widget shows each note’s status (open/resolved), the note author, and the date, so teams can quickly track, review and resolve block-level feedback from the WordPress admin dashboard.
Installation
- Upload the
bsw-notes-dashboardfolder to the/wp-content/plugins/directory. - Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress.
- The dashboard widget “My assigned notes” will appear on the WordPress Dashboard for logged-in users.
Screenshots
Dashboard with examples of open and resolved notes assigned to the current user.
Faq
The plugin lists comments with comment_type = 'note' that are attached to posts where the current user is the post author. Notes in the trash are excluded.
By default the widget shows up to 10 notes. This default can be changed in the code or extended via a plugin option in a future update.
Yes. The plugin uses the text domain bsw-notes-dashboard. Translation files can be placed in the languages/ folder.
Reviews
Changelog
0.1
- Initial release: added dashboard widget listing Gutenberg Notes assigned to the current user.
- Optimized note retrieval with direct DB filtering and deterministic comment loading.
- Filtered out empty notes and excluded notes/posts in the trash.
- Added defensive checks to ensure notes are shown only for posts belonging to the current user.
- Implemented transient caching per user (5 minutes) and cache invalidation hooks on comment changes.
- Internationalization support.
- Finalized English readme and documentation.