Red Pen adds a Dev Mode to any WordPress site. Flip it on from the admin bar and pin typed notes to anything on the front end: a heading, an image, a rogue margin. Then work through all of them from one repository in wp-admin. Visitors never see a thing.
Works with any theme and any builder. Notes live in your database, nowhere else.
Nobody gets an invite email and nobody is billed per seat. It is a plugin, and it works like one.
Upload the zip under Plugins → Add New, then activate it. Nothing asks you for a key.
One toggle in the admin bar. Only logged-in users you allow ever see the overlay. Your visitors never do.
Click any element on the page, type the note, give it a type and a priority. Drag a region to attach a screenshot and scribble on it freehand first.
Every note from every page lands in one repository in wp-admin. Filter, reply, resolve, done.
Stop translating "the thing near the top looks off" from an email thread. The note is on the thing.
Drag a box around the broken bit and the capture rides along with the note. No more guessing games.
Print a clean punch-list for the client from the repository, your logo and brand colours included, free. The reviewer link itself is revocable, expiring and rate-limited, and since 0.26.0 a note only reaches it if you ticked Visible to client reviewers.
Open, In Progress, Resolved, with low/normal/high priority and a separate severity axis. Replies are child posts, and the CSV export honours whatever status and assignee filters you have set.
Notes are the wprp_note post type in WordPress itself. Nothing is loaded from a third party and nothing leaves the site.
It pins to whatever is rendered: hand-built themes, Oxygen, Elementor, blocks. If it is on the page, you can pin it.
Delegate a note to an AI coding agent working on the site. It reads the queue locally, with no keys and nothing uploaded.
Once Red Pen is on several client sites, each install sends its notes to the Red Pen Hub, one local board that sees all of them.
The Hub runs on your own machine rather than ours. Nothing in it counts projects, so the number of client sites you connect is up to your disk.
The whole plugin is free, permanently: pinning, screenshots, workflow, the repository, white-label reports. None of it is reserved for a tier above this one.
This page runs Red Pen as well. Hit the red button in the corner and leave one.
No. Red Pen only renders for logged-in users with Dev Mode switched on. Logged-out visitors get zero extra markup and zero extra scripts.
Not for visitors, because nothing loads for them at all. An editor with Dev Mode on gets the inline overlay script plus a vendored copy of html2canvas (194 KB, MIT) for region screenshots. Neither makes an external request.
In your WordPress database, on your own hosting, as the wprp_note post type with replies as child posts. No service sits behind the plugin, so nothing can shut down and take your notes with it.
Yes. Red Pen pins to the rendered page, so a hand-coded theme, Oxygen, Elementor and Gutenberg blocks all behave the same.
No. Pinning, screenshots, workflow, the repository and white-label client reports are all included. If Red Pen earns its keep you can back a release (one-time, any amount) on Buy Me a Coffee or GitHub Sponsors and land on the Supporters wall. Nothing is gated behind it.