Add a notes post type to WordPress. For your short notes.
As of April 2026, Shortnotes is a WordPress notes plugin with 10 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 1 reviews. It has been downloaded 5.4K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 6.3+ and PHP 7.2+. Available on WordPress.org since 2021. Top alternative: WP Dashboard Notes.
Shortnotes adds a custom post type, Notes, used to publish short pieces of content on your website, similar to social networks like Mastodon, Twitter, or Instagram.
The Notes post type does not support traditional titles.
Note titles are not generally meant to be displayed as part of the theme layout. You will likely need to adjust the look and feel of your theme accordingly. See the Theme Customization section below for more details.
A title is generated automatically from note content and is used as the note’s document title. This is readable by search engines and displayed in browser tabs.
The Notes post type supports basic content blocks like paragraph, list, quote, image, preformatted text, gallery, video, and embed. Using a defined list of relatively s…
| WordPress | 6.3+ requiredTested up to 6.8.5 |
| PHP | 7.2+ required |
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