I’ve been playing with the WordPress 6.9 betas lately, mostly out of curiosity (and a bit of avoidance of actual work), and somehow the feature that stood out the most wasn’t any of the “big” ones.
It was Notes.
Yeah, Notes.
Sounds tiny. Sounds boring. Sounds like something you scribble on a sticky note and lose under your keyboard.
But inside the block editor, Notes actually feel like the missing mini-tool we’ve all been faking with comments, Slack screenshots, random emojis, “TODO” blocks, and whatever else we come up with when we need to leave instructions for clients or teammates.
Instead of writing stuff like:
“hey, reminder to change this later”
“please don’t delete this, it breaks something, idk why”
…you just drop a note right on the block, and anyone who edits the page later automatically sees it. No digging around. No mystery warnings. No shared doc nobody reads.
The fun part is: Notes help both sides — site owners and devs.
Clients can leave reminders for writers. Writers can nudge designers. Developers can leave quick “don’t touch this” messages without writing a massive Slack essay at midnight.
If you’ve ever managed a WP site with multiple cooks in the kitchen, this is actually a pretty big quality-of-life upgrade.
I wrote a small breakdown of the feature, including how to enable Notes for custom post types (easy, surprisingly). If you work with WordPress regularly, it’s worth a look.
👉 *A simple look at the new * Notes feature in WordPress 6.9
If you’ve tried Notes already, curious whether you think it’ll be actually useful long-term or become one of those features everyone forgets after week one.
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