5 Best Page & Post Notes Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
Page & Post Notes has 1,000+ active installs on WordPress.org. These 5 plugins share its category or its tags on WordPress.org, are actively maintained, and each has at least 100 active installs. They are ordered by how closely they match, not by our opinion.
The 5 closest alternatives to Page & Post Notes
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Simple Post Notes
Closest match5.0 (24) 9,000+ active installsAdds simple notes to post, page and custom post type edit screen.
Shares the note, notes, post notes tags on WordPress.org. About 9 times the installs, no update since September 4, 2025.
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5.0 (26) 400+ active installsAllows you to add notes to plugins.
Shares the memo tag on WordPress.org. About a third of the installs, no update since July 16, 2015.
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5.0 (62) 9,000+ active installsAdds a column to the Plugins page where you can add, edit, or delete notes about a plugin.
Shares the memo tag on WordPress.org. About 9 times the installs, last updated July 23, 2026.
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4.6 (110) 20,000+ active installsWorking with multiple persons on a website? Want to make notes? You can do just that with WP Dashboard Notes. Create beautiful notes with a nice user …
Shares the note, notes tags on WordPress.org. About 20 times the installs, last updated April 8, 2026.
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4.9 (38) 4,000+ active installsAdds 9 awesome widgets to your WP Dashboard. Includes User Notes, Social Buttons, System Info, Debug/Error Logs, and more!
Shares the notes tag on WordPress.org. About 4 times the installs, last updated July 17, 2026.
Switching from Page & Post Notes: common questions
What is the best alternative to Page & Post Notes?
Simple Post Notes is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 9,000+ active installs with a 5.0 out of 5 rating.
Which Page & Post Notes alternative has the most users?
WP Dashboard Notes, with 20,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which Page & Post Notes alternative is rated highest?
Plugin Notes Plus, rated 5.0 out of 5 by 62 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these Page & Post Notes alternatives free?
Every plugin listed here is free to install from WordPress.org. Where WordPress.org marks a plugin as commercial, the developer also sells a paid version or add-ons, and that is shown on each plugin.
How are alternatives chosen?
Automatically, from WordPress.org data: plugins that share a category top 10 with Page & Post Notes score highest, then plugins that appear in the same WordPress.org rankings, then plugins with the same tags, weighted so rare tags count more than common ones. Plugins by the same author and plugins rated under 4.0 are left out.
How we choose these alternatives
Nothing on this page is picked by hand. Every day we walk the whole WordPress.org directory, then score every plugin against Page & Post Notes on three signals: sharing a category top 10 counts most, then appearing in the same WordPress.org rankings, then carrying the same tags, with rare tags counting for more than common ones like "wordpress". Plugins by the same author are excluded, so an author's own add-ons cannot fill the list, and so is anything rated below 4.0 or with fewer than 100 active installs. The ten highest scores are what you see, in that order. Full methodology.
The bottom line
Simple Post Notes is the closest match to Page & Post Notes by the data we track, and WP Dashboard Notes has the widest reach with 20,000+ active installs. Plugin Notes Plus shipped the most recent release, on July 23, 2026. The list is rebuilt every day from WordPress.org, so a plugin that stops being maintained drops out on its own.
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