BookingWP - #1 WordPress Appointment Booking Plugin

* Feature - Staff permissions: Rules set by staff now sectioned into minimal, standard and full, staff doesn't need that many options. * Improvement - ICS export not working for other calendars (only works for gCal). Issue #970. * Improvement - Updated all translations. Staff permission settings missing translations. * Improvement - Appointments edited in admin calendar should instantly sync to the Google calendar, when connected. * Improvement - Appointment creation modal now has slightly polised UX, less autoclosing/autoopening, better timing and spacing. * Improvement - Appointment creation modal and viewing modal should have a simple link to appointment edit page, no fancy redirects. * Fix - Staff permission for editing and creating products not working, but should grant staff access to all products. * Fix - Automatically assigned staff together issue when no staff assigned. Issue #1292. * Fix - Patch non-indexed path where showing sold out slots could trigger fatal error through filter. * Fix - Minimal CSS patch to prevent transition effect (added elsewhere) on datepicker back/forward buttons. * Fix - Patch to show status drodown correctly on appointment viewing modal when statuses have long translations. * Fix - Timezone change to UTC on frontend not working. Issue #1294. * Fix - Timezone text on frontend not changing when selecting default. Issue #1295. * Fix - Timezone overnight change not reflected on the calendar date picker. Issue #438. * Fix - Appointment vierwing modal shows wrong duration for daily or monthly duration types. Issue #1296. * Fix - Timezone should also be added to daily and monthly durations during creation or editing in admin calendar. Issue #1296. * Fix - When product is selected in modal, end date/time is not adjusted based on product duration. * Fix - When staff creates appointment in modal, they should be assigned to the product, not any other staff member. * Fix - When staff is logged in, admin calendar should server preload appointment for the staff, but loads the via API (slower). * Fix - Fix get_slots_availability to expand DB query range by padding. Issue #1256. * Fix - Fix indexed path to include padded range more strictly. Issue #1256.

* Improvement - Remove JS hover effect for back/forward buttons on the frontend date picker, CSS styling only. Issue #1276. * Improvement - Add back option for Add as customer in modal for creating appointment, needs Screen options enabling. Issue #1290. * Improvement - Add better error feedback notice for quantity in admin modal for creating appointments. * Improvement - Refactored responsiveness and mobile UX for viewing and creating appointment modals in admin. * Improvement - Admin modal for viewing appointments status changing for more statuses, moved into conntent from modal footer. * Improvement - Updated all translations. * Fix - Admin modal for creating appointments should refresh mini date picker when quantity or staff chanage. Issue #1289. * Fix - Staff dashboard link to availability section in their profile is broken.

* Feature - Staff dashboard: Migrated from custom submenu page to native WordPress dashboard widgets using wp_add_dashboard_widget(). * Feature - Staff dashboard: 8 individual widgets — Overview, Appointment Trends, Upcoming Appointments, Insights, This Week, Monthly Schedule, Top Products, Quick Actions. * Feature - Staff dashboard: 3-column layout with automatic widget placement for staff users on first visit. * Feature - Staff dashboard: Pending appointments alert rendered as native WP admin notice at the top of the dashboard. * Feature - Refactored email timezone approach so each recipient will receive appointment times in separate email in their own timezone. * Feature - Refactored admin calendar filtering system to work much better. * Improvement - Staff dashboard: Removed forced redirect from WP dashboard (index.php) to custom page — staff now land on the native dashboard. * Improvement - Staff dashboard: WordPress Dashboard menu item now visible for staff users. * Improvement - Staff dashboard: Admin bar "Dashboard" link points to WP dashboard instead of old custom page. * Improvement - Staff dashboard: Default WP/WooCommerce widgets removed for staff to keep dashboard focused on appointments. * Improvement - Staff dashboard: Split monolithic template into 8 widget partials in views/dashboard-widgets/. * Improvement - Remove extra week addded to month view in admin as it adds confusion. * Improvement - Missed cached/indexed path are now patched: slots API, availability widget and block, finding default date. * Improvement - Add timezone in my-account, so customer always know which timezone appointment time is displayed in. * Improvement - Update all translations. Fixed mistranslated strings. * Improvement - When panel in admin modal for creating appointments is toggled gently scroll to the content if outside the viewport. * Improvement - Make past appointments faded, but not semi-transparent. * Improvement - Faster product preload for appointment creation modal. * Improvement - Add a legend to the footer of admin calendar, indicating stripped background meaning. * Improvement - Timezone setting for staff should include current timezone suggestion, same as customer setting does in my-account on frontend. * Improvement - Add appointment ID to toast messages in admin calendar. * Improvement - Staff dashboard should align more with the profile color scheme staff selects. * Cleanup - Staff dashboard: Removed old html-staff-dashboard.php template, add_dashboard_page(), render_dashboard(), and redirect_staff_dashboard() methods. * Cleanup - Staff dashboard: Updated all references from old page slug (wca-staff-dashboard) to admin_url('index.php'). * Fix - Staff can create appointments with any product if permission allows it, otherwise not. * Fix - Staff control panel live update/refresh does not work. * Fix - Availability check in modal wrongly allowed manually entered time that wasn't available with selected staff. * Fix - Are you sure not translatable in admin modal prompt. * Fix - When product is selected in admin calendar filter, preselect it when creating appointment from calendar with name set, not just ID. * Fix - Current week widget for staff did not account for timezone. * Fix - Admin modal for creating appointments has slightly bigger font now, 13->14px. * Fix - DST adjustments on all levels, use wall-clock-based conversion instead of offset, time conversion should follow exact date as well. * Fix - Email order summary timezone conversion not working for admin and staff and still shows times in customers timezone. * Fix - Some email templates are falsely flagged as not-admin email types, but they are, timezone conversion suffers in some cases. * Fix - "appointment_time_from" validates input incorrectly inside modal for creating appointments. * Fix - Toast message in admin calendar should only appear once for single action. * Fix - Current time and day in week and day view should also be timezone aware in admin calendar. * Fix - Invalidate cache selectively in admin calendar when appointments change to update stale cache and prevent double rendering. * Fix - Recurring rules display also needs to account for the timezone of user. * Fix - When admin is editing staff profile, edit in admin's timezone, but still show what timezone staff has set.

* Feature - Admin calendar toast notifications: Real-time updates when appointments are created, updated, cancelled, or rescheduled via SSE. * Improvement - Customer contact icons in appointment modal: Email and phone icons appear on hover with click-to-action (mailto/tel). * Improvement - Appointment needs to use staff_ids as single source of truth, added comprehensive checks to ensure this. * Improvement - Guest appointment that leaves name/surname should display it in admin calendar even if not registered. * Improvement - Update all translations. * Improvement - Show Guest name in Calendar view + change default calendar view. Issue #1271. * Improvement - Appointment modal has all content filterable through React/JS. * Improvement - Ensure plugin installation does not happen too early and everything hooks after 'init' call to avoid potential issues. * Improvement - Deposits with one full and one part payment appointment in the same order. Issue #1270. * Fix - Resolved double notification issue when cancelling appointments by improving SSE event deduplication. * Fix - SSE not updating admin calendar for appointments created via shortcode checkout (deduplication was blocking status change events in same request). * Fix - Fix NL translation. * Fix - Staff 2-way sync doesn't work fine with multiple calendars sync (staff + global). Issue #1268. * Fix - Sync issue: when parent recurring event was deleted, modified instance availability rules remained orphaned. Issue #1216.