Help Notes/Posts private to assigned users of a WordPress role.
As of April 2026, Role Based Help Notes is a WordPress user plugin with 10 active installations and a 4.6/5 rating from 10 reviews. It has been downloaded 13K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.5+ and PHP 5.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2013. Last updated 1 year ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: User Role Editor.
Do you want to give users a private area to share information based on a role they have been assigned?
…this plugin allows you to quickly create a custom post type for user roles. This allows users, with a specific role, the ability to create and edit their own ‘help notes’ providing a private set of notes for use. It can be used for anything else that fits with that role ( e.g. creating and sharing ideas within teams, minutes-of-meetings, formal notes… etc.).
To add new roles to the basic WordPress roles (Administrator, Editor, Subscriber ..etc ) you will need to use another plugin refer to Roles_and_Capabilities and Resources.. Plugins. You can then use one of these plugins ( e.g. User Role Editor ) to allocate users to multiple roles.
So if you want to quickl…
| WordPress | 3.5+ requiredTested up to 6.6.5 |
| PHP | 5.4+ required |
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