Title: Allow Notes?
Last modified: December 11, 2025

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# Allow Notes?

 *  Resolved [bridgetwes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bridgetwes/)
 * (@bridgetwes)
 * [5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/allow-notes/)
 * Hi,
   I love this plugin and use it on all my sites. I just tried out WordPress’
   new Notes feature in WP 6.9 on a FSE site with the “Disabled Comments” plugin
   installed and set to “Everywhere” + disabled XML-RPC and Rest API. When I try
   to save the note, I get a little popup in the lower left that says “Comments 
   are disabled.” I did a little research (asked ChatGPT) and see Notes are stored
   in comments, and disabling them stops a Note from saving. Any chance you could
   add functionality to Allow Notes while keeping comments disabled everywhere else?

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 *  Plugin Author [rbplugins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rbplugins/)
 * (@rbplugins)
 * [3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/allow-notes/#post-18816792)
 * Thanks a lot for the kind words, really happy to hear you’re using the plugin
   across your sites!
 * You’re also 100% right about what’s happening: in WordPress 6.9 the new Notes
   feature stores data via the comments system, so when comments are disabled “Everywhere”,
   WordPress blocks saving Notes and shows the “Comments are disabled” message.
 * Good news: this is exactly the kind of edge case we want to handle better.
 * We need to run a few tests on WP 6.9 (including FSE sites) to confirm the safest
   way to allow Notes without unintentionally re-enabling normal comments. But yes,
   we can look into adding an option like “Allow WordPress Notes” while keeping 
   regular comments disabled everywhere else.
 * Also, just so you know: we’re actively working on the next Disable Comments RB
   release with a more advanced configuration layer (including things like WP-CLI
   support, multisite support, and more flexible rules). The plan is to have a simple
   Basic mode (current behavior) and an Advanced mode where exclusions like this
   are easier to manage.
 * If you can share your setup details (WP 6.9 exact version, which theme, and whether
   Notes are used on posts/pages or site-wide), that would help us reproduce it 
   faster.

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 * Last activity: [3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/allow-notes/#post-18816792)
 * Status: resolved