Released February 18, 2026
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* 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.Get access to BookingWP - #1 WordPress Appointment Booking Plugin and 4,000+ more plugins with a subscription.
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