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WP Dashboard Notes
Simple sticky notes that are currently stuck in the past.
HealthyDeclining
81/100
Users love the lightweight simplicity despite stalled development and minor formatting bugs.
Active installs
~25,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 20k+
Rating
4.6★
110 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-27%
Declining fast
39 → 29 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORdownloads down 27% vs a year ago
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Declining fast · -27% in the last year
39/day a year ago→29/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayWP Dashboard Notes is a well-loved, lightweight sticky-notes plugin for the WordPress dashboard that users praise for its simplicity and lack of bloat, though concerns about stalled development and a few usability limitations with text formatting hold it back slightly.
What people like
- +Lightweight and distraction-free — no ads, no upsells, no menu clutter×3
- +Reliably does what it promises for leaving notes and reminders in the dashboard×5
- +Useful for team collaboration and sharing notes with colleagues in multi-user setups×4
- +Toggle between private and shared notes is appreciated×2
- +Press-Enter-to-save interaction is a noted convenience
- +Long-term stability — reported working reliably for years without issues
Common complaints
- −Development appears stalled; concerns about the plugin not being actively maintained or updated×2
- −Line breaks in typed or pasted text do not render correctly, making multi-line notes hard to read×2
- −Mouse cursor cannot be used to reposition the input caret inside a note
- −Note background color is not configurable out of the box; requires a manual CSS hack
- −Does not support WordPress Multisite networks (notes do not propagate across sites)
- −No granular user-role control — cannot restrict specific notes to certain user types (e.g. Editors vs. Admins)×2
Review trustMostly organic
- 4.68★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.60★
- 6%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
- past spikeReview timing — up to 29% of all reviews landed in a single month
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-12-172025-03-112026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 110 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2026-04-19★★★★★Great way to keep track of things that need to be doneDJF3
- 2025-06-12★★★★★Not working in 6.8.1clgolden2023
- 2024-10-06★★★★★Excellent & Flawlesskoolsherif
- 2024-09-13★★★★★Nery neat plugin :)xtof_r
- 2024-08-26★★★★★Missing checkboxesKiki870
- 2024-08-01★★★★★Doesn't Work AnymoreStef
- 2023-12-02★★★★★Just rightJuergen Schulze
- 2023-06-06★★★★★good plug-in. But there are some unfortunate shortcomingswpuserjp202306t
- 2023-03-26★★★★★Please update for the latest versiontimesaver
- 2022-11-30★★★★★Very usefulglobals
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNFor developers & the curious
the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
29
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
27
Prior 7-day baseline
20
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
29
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
+7.4%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
29%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
2.17
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
83%
5★ share in analyzed sample
6%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.66 → 4.68★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered