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A paper-yellow note appears. Type, drag it to the spot, resize it, and save the text. Moving, resizing and recoloring a saved note stick as soon as you let go. A Hack Repair heart pin shows the note is saved. Everyone on your team with Stickies access sees it in the same place.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Made for the people building and looking after the site.<\/strong> Administrators and editors can use Stickies as soon as it is activated, and you choose which roles can see, add or manage notes. Visitors never see notes, and no Stickies files load for them.<\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Pin notes on any page of the site and on dashboard screens (both on by default)<\/li>\n<li>Drag by the top edge or the pin, resize from the corner, and pick a color: these save the moment you let go. Save text with the check button or Ctrl+S (Cmd+S on a Mac)<\/li>\n<li>Five colors, chosen from the button at the top right: yellow, blue, green, pink and gray<\/li>\n<li>Mention a teammate with @ and they get an email with a link straight to the note<\/li>\n<li>Choose who sees each note: the whole team, only the people mentioned, or just you<\/li>\n<li>Mark a note resolved when the work is done; it leaves the page with an Undo message and can be reopened from the notes panel or the Stickies list<\/li>\n<li>The notes panel lists every note on the page, with a count in the toolbar and the admin bar<\/li>\n<li>The Stickies menu in the dashboard lists every note on the site, with filters, search and bulk actions<\/li>\n<li>Web addresses in a note become links<\/li>\n<li>Works with mouse, touch and keyboard: with a note focused, arrow keys move it and Shift+arrow keys resize it<\/li>\n<li>On small screens, notes are listed in the panel instead of being drawn over the page<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h4>Privacy<\/h4>\n\n<p>Notes are stored in your own WordPress database and are only shown to logged-in people with Stickies permissions. Notes are fetched after the page loads, so cached pages never contain them. Mention emails use your site\u2019s normal mail setup. Mention suggestions may load images from your configured avatar provider, including Gravatar.<\/p>\n\n<h4>Mention emails<\/h4>\n\n<p>Subjects follow <code>[example.com] [Stickies] You were mentioned in a note<\/code>. The email names who mentioned you, shows the note, and links to the page with the note highlighted. Each person gets at most one email per note every 10 minutes. You can turn mention emails off in Stickies &gt; Settings.<\/p>\n\n<h3>Support<\/h3>\n\n<p>For questions, ideas and community support, visit the plugin's support forum on WordPress.org:\nhttps:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/plugin\/thrg-stickies\/<\/p>\n\n<!--section=installation-->\n<ol>\n<li>In WordPress, open Plugins &gt; Add New, search for \"The Hack Repair Guy's Stickies\" and choose Install Now. You can also upload the thrg-stickies folder to wp-content\/plugins\/.<\/li>\n<li>Activate The Hack Repair Guy's Stickies.<\/li>\n<li>Open any page of your site while logged in and click the note button on the left edge, or choose Stickies in the admin bar.<\/li>\n<li>Optional: review Stickies &gt; Settings to choose which roles can see, add and manage notes, and whether notes appear on the site, on dashboard screens, or both.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n<!--section=faq-->\n<dl>\n<dt id=\"can%20visitors%20see%20my%20notes%3F\"><h3>Can visitors see my notes?<\/h3><\/dt>\n<dd><p>No. Notes, the toolbar and every Stickies file load only for logged-in people whose role has Stickies access. Visitors and search engines never see them.<\/p><\/dd>\n<dt id=\"who%20can%20use%20stickies%3F\"><h3>Who can use Stickies?<\/h3><\/dt>\n<dd><p>Administrators always can. Editors can see and add notes by default. In Stickies &gt; Settings you can give any role permission to see notes, add notes, or manage everyone's notes. Everyone can edit, move, resolve and delete their own notes.<\/p><\/dd>\n<dt id=\"why%20is%20an%20editor%20missing%20from%20mentions%20or%20unable%20to%20see%20stickies%3F\"><h3>Why is an editor missing from mentions or unable to see Stickies?<\/h3><\/dt>\n<dd><p>Check that Editor has See notes and Add notes in Stickies &gt; Settings. Role-editing plugins or site migrations can remove the stored capabilities while those settings remain checked. Version 2.0.4 reapplies the saved role permissions automatically on the next request. It changes only Stickies role capabilities, and users with individual capability restrictions retain those restrictions. Because Stickies &gt; Settings is the source of truth, a Stickies permission granted or removed in a role-editing plugin is changed back to match Settings on the next page load, so manage Stickies access in Stickies &gt; Settings. If you type a name in the @ list and the person is missing because their role cannot see notes yet, administrators see a short note saying so (with the account email and role) and a link to Stickies &gt; Settings. Other users see no such note.<\/p><\/dd>\n<dt id=\"how%20do%20i%20distinguish%20two%20people%20with%20the%20same%20name%3F\"><h3>How do I distinguish two people with the same name?<\/h3><\/dt>\n<dd><p>Administrators who can list users see an email address next to each name and can search by email. Other Stickies users see an account ID next to each name. Suggestions include only accounts with Stickies access. Selecting a person stores their account ID, so identical display names remain distinct.<\/p><\/dd>\n<dt id=\"who%20can%20see%20each%20note%3F\"><h3>Who can see each note?<\/h3><\/dt>\n<dd><p>Team notes are visible to everyone with Stickies access. Mentioned only notes are visible to the author, the mentioned people and note managers. Just me notes appear on the page only for their author; note managers can also see them in the dashboard list if the site enables that setting.<\/p><\/dd>\n<dt id=\"who%20can%20resolve%20a%20note%3F\"><h3>Who can resolve a note?<\/h3><\/dt>\n<dd><p>The person who wrote it, anyone who manages notes, and anyone mentioned in it.<\/p><\/dd>\n<dt id=\"why%20is%20my%20note%20in%20a%20slightly%20different%20place%20on%20another%20screen%3F\"><h3>Why is my note in a slightly different place on another screen?<\/h3><\/dt>\n<dd><p>Notes remember their distance from the top of the page and from the center of the window, so they stay in place on centered layouts as the window changes size. Responsive themes can move content around on narrow screens, so below the width set in Stickies &gt; Settings (782 pixels by default) notes are listed in the notes panel instead.<\/p><\/dd>\n<dt id=\"does%20a%20note%20follow%20the%20page%20if%20i%20add%20query%20strings%20or%20tracking%20links%3F\"><h3>Does a note follow the page if I add query strings or tracking links?<\/h3><\/dt>\n<dd><p>Yes. Tracking parameters such as utm_source and fbclid are ignored, and so are http\/https and the domain, so notes survive a move from staging to live.<\/p><\/dd>\n<dt id=\"can%20i%20put%20notes%20on%20dashboard%20screens%3F\"><h3>Can I put notes on dashboard screens?<\/h3><\/dt>\n<dd><p>Yes. Dashboard screens are on by default. You can turn them off with \"On dashboard screens\" in Stickies &gt; Settings.<\/p><\/dd>\n<dt id=\"why%20does%20a%20mention%20show%20no%20recorded%20send%3F\"><h3>Why does a mention show No recorded send?<\/h3><\/dt>\n<dd><p>Stickies does not email you when you mention your own account. If you choose your own name from the @ suggestions, no notification is sent, even with emails enabled and visibility set to Team. Choose a different account to test notifications.<\/p>\n\n<p>No recorded send means there is no saved send result for that person. It can also appear for mentions saved before version 2.0.1, when mention emails were disabled, when the recipient could not see the note (for example a Just me note), when the recipient account or email was invalid, or when the 10-minute cooldown suppressed a notification.<\/p><\/dd>\n<dt id=\"does%20saving%20or%20resolving%20a%20note%20resend%20mention%20emails%3F\"><h3>Does saving or resolving a note resend mention emails?<\/h3><\/dt>\n<dd><p>No. Emails are triggered when a person is newly mentioned on a save. Saving an existing mention again, resolving a note, or reopening it does not resend the email.<\/p><\/dd>\n<dt id=\"how%20can%20i%20test%20mention%20emails%3F\"><h3>How can I test mention emails?<\/h3><\/dt>\n<dd><p>Enable mention emails in Stickies &gt; Settings. Create a new Team note and select a different administrator or editor from the @ suggestions, then save. Refresh the Stickies list to see Accepted by mailer or Send failed. In a local Mailpit setup, also check Mailpit for the message. If Mailpit receives the new message but the list still shows No recorded send, check the plugin database upgrade and status write.<\/p><\/dd>\n<dt id=\"what%20happens%20to%20my%20notes%20if%20i%20uninstall%3F\"><h3>What happens to my notes if I uninstall?<\/h3><\/dt>\n<dd><p>They are kept unless you tick \"Delete all plugin data when the plugin is deleted\" in Stickies &gt; Settings. With that ticked, deleting the plugin removes every note, the settings and the Stickies permissions.<\/p><\/dd>\n\n<\/dl>\n\n<!--section=changelog-->\n<h4>2.1.5<\/h4>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Use WordPress identifier placeholders for note queries and uninstall cleanup. Keep administrator mention hints bounded without excluding user IDs in SQL.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h4>2.1.4<\/h4>\n\n<ul>\n<li><p>Recheck note visibility before returning a save response. If another edit makes the note private, its contents are withheld from anyone who lost access.<\/p><\/li>\n<li><p>Clarify all three visibility choices and note-manager access in the help tooltip.<\/p><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h4>2.1.3<\/h4>\n\n<ul>\n<li>The Plugins list link now reads View all instead of Notes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h4>2.1.2<\/h4>\n\n<ul>\n<li>The Other THRG Plugins tab in View Details now lists every other THRG plugin and ends with the donation note.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h4>2.1.1<\/h4>\n\n<ul>\n<li>The Stickies list now pages and counts only the notes you can open. Before, \"Mentioned only\" notes you were not part of could leave short pages and inflate the total.<\/li>\n<li>The most notes allowed on one page now follows the thrg_stk_page_limit filter everywhere. Before, the page itself stopped loading at 200 even when the limit was raised.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h4>2.1.0<\/h4>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Fixed saved notes showing every line break as an extra blank line. The welcome note is also taller so its full message fits.<\/li>\n<li>Removed leftover code from the retired collapsed-pin design for resolved notes (an unused element, tooltip, click handler and styles, plus an unused page class). Nothing visible changes.<\/li>\n<li>Deleting Stickies with Delete all plugin data ticked now also removes the update checker's saved state and its rate-limit note.<\/li>\n<li>A welcome note now greets you on the home page the first time Stickies is installed. It is marked Just me, so only the administrator who activated Stickies sees it, and you can resolve or delete it like any other note.<\/li>\n<li>The welcome message on the dashboard links straight to that note while it is still open.<\/li>\n<li>Reinstalling with your notes kept, or activating from WP-CLI, does not add a welcome note.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h4>2.0.7<\/h4>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Administrators now get a short note in the @ mention list when someone matches the name but cannot be mentioned because their role cannot see notes yet, with a link to Stickies &gt; Settings. Other users see no change and no account details.<\/li>\n<li>Fixed a rare case where pressing Enter after a search found no one could pick the person from the previous search.<\/li>\n<li>Removed unused code and two unused text strings (\"Saving\u2026\" and \"Only the author can change this note.\"). Translators can drop them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h4>2.0.6<\/h4>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Moving, resizing or recoloring a saved note now saves as soon as you let go. 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