Daytime Notes

No! Install, activate, and you're ready to go. All settings are optional extras for larger teams. For a simple developer-client setup, just create a reviewer account and start leaving notes. The only "must do" is ensure users have the right role to access notes.

No. These are optional features. Without @mentions, notes are general feedback anyone can see. Without email notifications, people just check notes manually when they log in. Perfect for small teams or solo developers working with clients.

Only logged-in users with the use_daytime_notes or edit_posts capability, and with Daytime Notes enabled on their profile, can see notes. Assign users the "Daytime Notes Reviewer" role for client access without giving them any editing permissions.

Yes. Email notifications can be turned off entirely in Settings > Daytime Notes. Notifications are also only ever delivered to a user who has Daytime Notes enabled on their own profile.

Daytime Notes hands emails off to WordPress's built-in wp_mail() and waits for that call to complete before confirming the send. The plugin doesn't talk to any mail server directly — actual delivery speed depends entirely on your host's mail setup (PHP's mail() function, sendmail/postfix, or whatever SMTP service your site uses). Variable delays, especially occasional 10-20+ second sends, are almost always caused by that transport doing a fresh DNS/MX lookup and SMTP handshake for each message, not by the plugin. If this happens consistently, installing an SMTP plugin (e.g. WP Mail SMTP, FluentSMTP) configured with a transactional email provider (SES, Mailgun, Postmark, etc.) typically resolves it, since those reuse a fast authenticated connection instead of connecting fresh each time.

By default, notes and settings are preserved in the database. You can opt in to full data removal in Settings > Daytime Notes > Data Management. Full removal is permanent. Important: When the plugin is uninstalled, users with the "Daytime Notes Reviewer" role are automatically reassigned to the Subscriber role. This prevents users from being assigned to a role that no longer exists. If you want to delete reviewer accounts entirely, do so manually before uninstalling.

No. Core's Notes are block-level comments for people editing inside Gutenberg — private to the editor, never shown on the live site. Daytime Notes is for feedback from people who aren't editing at all: a client or reviewer looking at the finished, live page, with any page builder, no editor access required.

Yes. Daytime Notes works with any theme or page builder output (Elementor, Bricks, Breakdance, Oxygen, Gutenberg, etc.) because notes attach to rendered HTML elements on the page.

Notes remain visible in the notes panel even if the original element is no longer present. The stored selector remains available for reference.

Not on phone-sized screens. Below 600px wide, the notes button and panel are hidden, because there isn't room to select elements and read notes alongside the page. Tablets, laptops and desktops are fully supported. Notes left from a larger screen are still there, and notification emails can be read on any device.

Since 1.0.0, the notes on each page are split into Open and Completed tabs, which replace that checkbox. The "Hide completed" option for the list of pages is still there, inside the Pages with notes menu.

Yes. Every build goes through two separate checks before release: the official WordPress Plugin Check tool, and a dedicated security review focused on logic-level issues including broken access control, privilege escalation, and insecure direct object references.