WP Notepad

WP Notepad puts a notepad textarea on your site. Visitors can jot notes without logging in, and notes are kept in their own browser’s LocalStorage — by default nothing is sent to or stored on the server.

Add a notepad in three ways:

• Classic widget — add the “Notepad” widget to any widget area.

• Block — insert the “WP Notepad” block in the editor.

• Shortcode — place [wpnotepad] in post content or theme templates.

Features:

• Notes auto-save to the browser as you type, and are restored on return.

• Live character counter and a confirm-protected Clear button, with Undo right after a Clear or an import replaced the note.

• The textarea grows automatically to fit its content.

• Copy to clipboard, download as a.txt file, or import a note from a file.

• Multiple notes in one notepad via tabs (keyboard accessible: arrow keys, Home and End).

• A note open in several browser tabs or windows stays in step as you type.

• Warns instead of showing “Saved” when the browser cannot store the note (e.g. storage full or blocked).

• Optional auto-delete (TTL): notes expire after a configurable number of days.

• Optional, opt-in cross-device sync for logged-in users (see below). Disabled by default.

• Accessibility: labelled textarea, character-count association, polite save announcements and visible focus styles.

• Block styling via the editor’s color, typography, spacing and alignment controls.

• Available in English and Japanese.

Privacy / cross-device sync: By default notes live only in the visitor’s browser and are never stored on the server. An administrator may optionally enable “cross-device sync” under Settings → WP Notepad. When enabled, only logged-in users’ notes are saved to their own WordPress user account (user meta) and synced across their devices via the REST API.

Guests (logged-out visitors) always remain LocalStorage-only.