Product Notes for WooCommerce Plugin

Product Notes for WooCommerce plugin lets you add notes to WooCommerce products.

✅ Main Features

• Add multiple notes per product.
• Add product notes per variation.
• Make notes public or private.
• Notes will be visible on product edit page.
• Display the notes on frontend (“private” notes will be visible to admin and shop manager only): in new product tab, in single product meta section, on multiple additional positions on single product page, on shop (e.g. category) pages.
• And more…

🏆 Premium Version

With premium plugin version you can:

• Display the notes in admin products list column.
• Make the notes searchable by admin (in backend).
• Export and import the notes.
• Display the notes in admin orders.
• Add the notes to admin emails and customer emails (public notes only).
• Edit the notes via bulk and quick edit.
• And more…

🗘 Feedback

• We are open to your suggestions and feedback. Thank you for using or trying out one of our plugins!
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ℹ More

• The plugin is “High-Performance Order Storage (HPOS)” compatible.

1. Upload the entire plugin folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
2. Activate the plugin through the “Plugins” menu in WordPress.
3. Start by visiting plugin settings at “WooCommerce > Settings > Product Notes”.

2.9.5 – 08/05/2024

• Dev – PHP 8.2 compatibility – “Creation of dynamic property is deprecated” notice fixed.
• WC tested up to: 8.8.
• Tested up to: 6.5.

2.9.4 – 03/10/2023

• Plugin author updated.

2.9.3 – 26/09/2023

• WC tested up to: 8.1.
• Plugin icon, banner updated.

2.9.2 – 29/08/2023

• Dev – “High-Performance Order Storage (HPOS)” compatibility.
• Dev – Developers – alg_wc_pn_do_display filter added.
• WC tested up to: 8.0.
• Tested up to: 6.3.

2.9.1 – 18/06/2023

• WC tested up to: 7.8.
• Tested up to: 6.2.

2.9.0 – 31/08/2022

• Dev – Frontend Options – “Cart” option added.
• Dev – Deploy script added.
• WC tested up to: 6.8.
• Tested up to: 6.0.

2.8.0 – 18/05/2022

• Dev – Admin settings – “Advanced Options” subsection renamed to “Tools”. Descriptions updated.
• Dev – Tools – Products – Delete – Code refactoring.
• Dev – Tools – “Orders” tools added (“Add” and “Delete”).
• Dev – Backend Options – Admin orders – Code refactoring.
• WC tested up to: 6.5.

2.7.2 – 19/04/2022

• Dev – Backend Options – Admin products list column – CSS added.
• WC tested up to: 6.4.

2.7.1 – 04/04/2022

• Fix – “Call to undefined method Alg_WC_Product_Notes_Emails::display_in_email() in …” error fixed.

2.7.0 – 01/04/2022

• Fix – Backend Options – Customer emails – The option was incorrectly marked as a non-Pro. This is fixed now.
• Dev – Backend Options – “Visual editor” and “Textarea style” options added for the variation notes.
• Dev – Advanced – “Formatting Options” subsection added (Process shortcodes, Escape HTML, Replace line breaks, Convert plaintext URI to HTML links, Notes glue, Content).
• Dev – Frontend Options – Product tab – Formating options moved to “Advanced > Formatting Options”.
• Dev – Notes glue – Now defaults to <br> (was PHP_EOL) (including admin orders and shortcode).
• Dev – content parameter added (defaults to %product_notes%) (including shortcode).
• Dev – do_shortcode parameter added (defaults to false) (including shortcode).
• Dev – Admin settings descriptions updated.
• Dev – Code refactoring.
• WC tested up to: 6.3.

2.6.0 – 10/02/2022

• Dev – Backend Options – “Customer emails” option added (only to “Public notes”).
• Dev – Advanced Options – “WPML > Use default language product ID” option added (defaults to no).
• WC tested up to: 6.2.
• Tested up to: 5.9.

2.5.2 – 27/10/2021

• Fix – Illegal function call in Alg_WC_Product_Notes_Import_Export class constructor fixed.
• Dev – Compatibility Options – “Product/Review CSV Import Export” plugin option added.
• WC tested up to: 5.8.

2.5.1 – 25/08/2021

• Dev – Backend Options – “Visual editor” option added.

2.5.0 – 17/08/2021

• Fix – Backend Options – Admin search – Properly checking if it’s admin (i.e. vs frontend) search query now.
• Dev – Backend Options – Admin orders – “Save in order items meta” option added.
• Dev – General Options – “Note per variation” option added.
• Dev – Frontend Options – “Variation description” option added.
• Tested up to: 5.8.
• WC tested up to: 5.6.

2.4.0 – 15/07/2021

• Dev – “Dokan” plugin compatibility options added.
• Dev – Admin settings restyled: “Compatibility Options” subsection added, etc.
• Dev – Plugin is initialized on plugins_loaded action now.
• Dev – Code refactoring.
• WC tested up to: 5.5.

2.3.1 – 21/03/2021

• Dev – Sanitization – When saving, notes are sanitized as a standard textarea field in WooCommerce settings now (was sanitize_textarea_field()). This allows more HTML tags to be saved, e.g. <img>, etc.
• Dev – Sanitization – Settings – Frontend Options – Product tab – Tab content – Sanitized as a standard textarea field in WooCommerce settings now (was “raw”).
• Dev – Sanitization – Settings – Frontend Options – Product tab – Notes glue – Sanitized with wp_kses_post() now (was “raw”).
• Tested up to: 5.7.
• WC tested up to: 5.1.

2.3.0 – 02/03/2021

• Dev – Frontend Options – “Single product page” and “Shop pages” sections added.
• Dev – alg_wc_pn_get_product_notes() – make_clickable param added.
• Dev – Localisation – load_plugin_textdomain() function moved to the init action.
• Dev – Code refactoring.
• WC tested up to: 5.0.

2.2.1 – 05/01/2021

• Fix – Frontend Options – Product meta – Private notes are displayed only to admin now.
• Fix – Frontend Options – Product meta – “No break” issue fixed when both private and public notes are displayed.
• Dev – Frontend Options – “Logged users only” option added (only to “Public notes”).

2.2.0 – 22/12/2020

• Fix – Backend Options – Admin orders – Properly getting product ID now (fixes the issue with the variable products).
• Fix – Backend Options – Admin orders – Properly checking if product has notes now (fixes the issue when private notes were incorrectly checked for the public notes).
• Dev – Backend Options – Admin emails – Code refactoring ($item['product_id'] instead of $item->get_product_id()).
• Dev – Backend Options – “WooCommerce PDF Invoices & Packing Slips” option added.
• Dev – Frontend Options – Product tab – “Tab content” option added (defaults to %product_notes%).
• Dev – Frontend Options – Product tab – “Notes glue” option added (defaults to <br>, was PHP_EOL).
• Dev – Frontend Options – Product tab – “Escape HTML” option added (defaults to yes).
• Dev – Frontend Options – Product tab – “Replace line breaks” option added (defaults to yes).
• Dev – Frontend Options – Product tab – Tab title per product – Better description in meta box.
• Dev – Frontend Options – Product meta – “Position” option added (defaults to After product meta).
• Dev – Admin notes edit – Restyled.
• Dev – JS files minified.
• Dev – Developers – alg_wc_pn_get_product_notes filter added.
• Dev – Developers – alg_wc_pn_get_product_note_values filter added.
• Dev – Developers – alg_wc_pn_product_tab filter added.
• WC tested up to: 4.8.
• Tested up to: 5.6.

2.1.0 – 08/08/2020

• Dev – Export – Bug fixed.
• Dev – Backend Options – “Quick edit” and “Bulk edit” options added (both default to no).
• Dev – Backend Options – “Export” and “Import” options added (both default to no).
• Dev – Admin settings – Typo fixed.
• Dev – Code refactoring.

2.0.0 – 08/08/2020

• Dev – “Multiple notes per product” functionality added.
• Dev – “Public notes” section added.
• Dev – Frontend – “Product meta” options added.
• Dev – Frontend – Product tab – “Tab title” (including “Tab title per product”) and “Tab priority” options added.
• Dev – Backend – “Admin orders” option added.
• Dev – Shortcode renamed to [alg_wc_product_notes].
• Dev – Function renamed to alg_wc_pn_get_product_notes().
• Dev – “Enable plugin” option removed.
• Dev – Major code refactoring.
• Dev – Admin settings descriptions updated.
• Dev – Plugin renamed to “Product Notes for WooCommerce”.
• Dev – Text domain changed to product-notes-for-woocommerce.
• Tested up to: 5.4.
• WC tested up to: 4.3.

1.3.1 – 09/03/2020

• Dev – Bulk and Quick edit added.
• Dev – Products column – Using filter param to get product ID now (i.e. instead of get_the_ID()).

1.3.0 – 23/02/2020

• Dev – “Admin search” options added.
• Dev – “Products column” option added.
• Dev – “Internal Product Notes” column added to the WooCommerce products exporter.

1.2.1 – 20/01/2020

• Dev – Admin emails – Setting $plain_text to false by default now (caused an issue with some themes).
• Dev – Admin emails – Code refactoring.
• WC tested up to: 3.9.

1.2.0 – 20/01/2020

• Dev – General Options – “Admin emails” option added.
• Dev – Code refactoring.
• WC tested up to: 3.8.
• Tested up to: 5.3.

1.1.3 – 25/10/2019

• Dev – [alg_wc_internal_product_note] shortcode added.
• Dev – alg_wc_get_internal_product_note() function added.
• WC tested up to: 3.7.

1.1.2 – 23/07/2019

• Fix – “Note added” time fixed for some notes (addslashes() added).
• Dev – “Delete all internal notes for all products” option added.

1.1.1 – 10/06/2019

• Dev – “Product note” option added to “WooCommerce products (CSV)” importer.
• Dev – Code refactoring.
• Tested up to: 5.2.

1.1.0 – 02/05/2019

• Fix – “Note added” time now updated only if note content was changed.
• Fix – Reset Settings – “Reset section settings” option fixed.
• Dev – “Note added” time now shown only if note content is not empty.
• Dev – Product tab – Changing double line-breaks in the text into HTML paragraphs (i.e. applying wpautop()).
• Dev – Style Options – “Textarea style” option added.
• Dev – Admin settings restyled and descriptions updated.
• Dev – “WC tested up to” updated.
• Dev – POT file added.

1.0.0 – 14/03/2019

• Initial Release.