Enjoying the Butter Breakfast Burrito at Butter in San Dimas.

From the desktop of Joseph Dickson
Enjoining the Butter Breakfast Burrito at Butter in San Dimas.
Enjoying the Butter Breakfast Burrito at Butter in San Dimas.

I’m currently listening to Rachelle Wise on the WP eCommence show. Where she discusses the value of targeting landing pages to researched audiences.
My Private Notes plugin allows me self host my notes while hiding it from public view.
The Private Notes WordPress plugin is in active development, I’m providing it here for the public to hack, tweak and learn from… Use at your own risk.
Private Notes allows users create and store notes on their personal website.
The Plugin creates a Notes section within the dashboard where you can create and maintain your notes.

These notes are visible when logged into your website while the content remains hidden from a public guest who could be viewing the page.


The post’s title, author, date and other data will remain visible to the public. Additionally any media files such as images, videos, audio, and documents will remain visible from their attachment pages. Private Notes does not secure any files attached to the post! It only hides the post’s content area.
After activating the private Private Notes plugin a notebook icon will appear in your admin menu under Posts. Simply Add New, type out some notes, add media, links, embeds or whatever you like. Then hit publish.

Although self hosting notes in WordPress isn’t as convenient as a dedicated note taking app it does allows personal control and ownership of my thoughts.