Allow Notes?

  • Resolved bridgetwes

    (@bridgetwes)


    2 months, 4 weeks ago

    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

    (@rbplugins)

    3 weeks, 6 days ago

    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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