User notes?

Support General User notes?

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  • #46993
    logicelflogicelf
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    Hi folks,

    I have a personal WP project which needs 'user notes', and I'm wondering if MB is the way to go for this. Here are my criteria:

    A text/WYSIWYG field is available on posts/CPTs, while the user is logged in

    Users can add and edit notes in that field, which they can view alongside the content

    (Posts/CPTs are only visible while logged in, so no issues about them being seen by the public)

    The notes are specific to both the post/CPT and the user (each user making notes sees only their own notes, for that post/CPT)

    Stretch goal: All user notes are available from the user's profile page, with backlinks to the relevant post/CPT

    I'm thinking that I need to add the notes field as user meta, with the post ID in there somewhere so I can display them on the right post, and create links back from the 'notes overview' - but it's been so long since I've done anything like this, and I'm struggling with where to start.

    Any pointers very gratefully received!

    #46994
    logicelflogicelf
    Participant

    NB: I should add that the users are not authors/admins - they are 'member' level users of a membership site, so no post editing capabilities. The notes need to appear as a 'frontend' field to the logged-in users.

    #47008
    PeterPeter
    Moderator

    Hello,

    You can use some custom fields like textarea, WYSIWYG to allow users to add something as a note to the CPT. But Meta Box doesn't support showing that note on the user profile page. You might need to create some custom code to show the note on the user profile page, however it is beyond our scope of support.
    I recommend contacting an expert developer and asking them to help you create some custom code to achieve the goal.

    #47016
    logicelflogicelf
    Participant

    Hi Peter,

    Thanks for getting back to me. I guess I'll have to dust off my coding gloves for this one (it's been a while) ...

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