Ability to Turn Off Notes

[arequestions]

Prerequisites

• I have searched for similar feature requests in both open and closed discussions and cannot find an existing request.
• I have verified that the feature is still missing from the latest stable versions of Elementor or Elementor Pro.

What problem is your feature request going to solve? Please describe..

Hi,
Can you please bring back the ability to enable/disable notes? Notes create a compatibility issue with another plugin that is essential to our site, and due to this conflict, we cannot delete users. Before, we were able to disable the Notes, so we were able to resolve the issue, but since the recent update on 04/16/2024, we can't disable the notes, and we can't delete users.

Describe the solution you'd like.

Bring back to enable/disable notes.

Describe alternatives you've considered.

No response

Additional context

No response

Agreement

• I agree that my request may be closed without action if it doesn't meet all the requirements.

[brandonaaronson]

I'm going to comment so this hopefully brings it back above the spam. I too, do not like the Notes feature. I left a comment on Wordpress but I figure I'd put my 2¢ here as well. Being forced to use Notes is a big detriment to our team workflow. We have other systems in place that we utilize that don't require us to have another thing to keep track of inside sites we manage. Please return the ability to turn off notes.

[arequestions]

Thank you for supporting this. We don't have a proper workaround, which is a big headache for our site.

[hyperjit]

+1. Give us an option to disable it.

[paradoxalyty]

+1

[hamdan-Deb]

Please provide us the control to turn off notes.

[pmh90117]

+1

[iamfahrig]

+1

[kaelhoel]

Plugins elbowing their way into the admin-bar without the possibility to disable this intrusion is just disrespectful to the users, and bad UI design. It smells like a bad Themeforest bloatware. You have to add back the possibility to disable Notes.

[arequestions]

Couldn't agree more...

[czannolli]

+1

[cangulostudios]

+1

[covency]

Up up, add the option to disable as soon as possible!

[churongcon]

+1

[mcrowell]

Please give us the ability to disable this feature. Not everyone needs/wants this feature.

[markoste]

Please give us the option to disable this feature.
It's never used by any projects I work.... therefore it is bloatware for me.

[myssonv]

This is really vital, I just don't understand why Elemeentor would take away the option to hide the Notes feature. At the moment, am hiding the notes icon and label on the admin bar via CSS.

[robaxx]

Same as the AI garbage... We need a simple switch to get rid of it.

[aksellno]

+1

[gerasimovdaniel]

In theory this should help to turn off notes:

add_action( 'elementor_pro/init', function() {
    if ( ! class_exists( '\ElementorPro\Modules\Notes\User\Capabilities' ) ) {
        return;
    }

    $admin = get_role( 'administrator' );

    // If the admin role doesn't exist, or the admin role doesn't have the read notes capability, return.
    if ( ! $admin || ! $admin->has_cap( \ElementorPro\Modules\Notes\User\Capabilities::READ_NOTES ) ) {
        return;
    }

    // Remove the notes capabilities from all roles.
    $roles = array_values( wp_roles()->role_objects );

    foreach ( $roles as $role ) {
        if ( ! ( $role instanceof \WP_Role ) ) {
            continue;
        }

        foreach ( \ElementorPro\Modules\Notes\User\Capabilities::all() as $cap ) {
            $role->remove_cap( $cap );
        }
    }
}, 9999 );

[E-Markers]

+1

[cgomezhumm]

+1 why are you forcing this on us Elementor team?

[fxaviers]

+1

[eknown]

+1

[jomarieminney]

+1000

[peterpleva]

Without CSS:
if (is_admin_bar_showing())
add_action('admin_bar_menu', function($wp_admin_bar) {
$wp_admin_bar->remove_node('elementor_notes');
}, 201);

Also removing Elementor Debugger:
if (is_admin_bar_showing()) {
add_action('elementor/init', function() {
remove_action('admin_bar_menu', [ \Elementor\Plugin::instance()->inspector, 'add_menu_in_admin_bar' ], 201);
});
add_action('admin_bar_menu', function($wp_admin_bar) {
$wp_admin_bar->remove_node('elementor_notes');
}, 201);
}

[EnTonyH]

+1 to disable notes.

Very annoying because sometimes it cause overlapping shortcuts: Cmd+shft+c opens notes / opens developer mode in chrome.

[deepwaterpixel]

This is my biggest complaint about the feature -- I use the console 50x more than notes and it seems to be arbitrary when Notes decides to pop up instead of console.