unsupervised-scheduler/CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

All notable changes to Unsupervised Scheduler are documented in this file, one section per version, newest first. The top section is always the version the code on main currently carries (the Version: header in unsupervised-schedular.php). Whether a version is "released" is purely a matter of whether its tag exists — the changelog itself does not track that.

When a v* tag is pushed, .gitea/workflows/release.yml publishes the matching ## [x.y.z] section verbatim as the Gitea release notes, then opens a PR that bumps the plugin to the next patch version and adds a fresh section here for it. Record each change under the current top section as you work.

[1.2.2]

Added

• The Group Classes block can now be pinned to a single class, under Classes shown → Class in the block sidebar (shortcode: [us_group_classes offering="…"]). Pick a class and the block shows only that one, so it can be embedded on a page that describes the class. In this mode the class's own description is left out to avoid repeating the page copy — the card shows the schedule, instructor, price, enrolment deadline and the enrol/withdraw controls. Leaving it on All classes keeps the full browsable catalog with descriptions.

[1.2.1]

Fixed

• Registration questions, offering titles/notes, and policy names longer than their storage limit are no longer silently discarded. Previously typing a fixed-size field past its maximum length reported success but saved nothing — the database quietly rejected the over-long value. These fields now cap the input in the form, and the API rejects an over-long value with a clear error.
• Students can no longer reach the WordPress dashboard. A student who navigates to wp-admin is redirected to the site front end and the admin toolbar is hidden for them, so they only ever see the studio's booking pages. Anyone who runs the studio — administrators, studio admins, and instructors — keeps full wp-admin access.
• The instructor picker on the Add/Edit Offering form no longer comes up empty for a solo studio owner. When the person running the studio teaches from a WordPress administrator account (the default single-account setup), they now appear in the instructor dropdown and can be assigned to a class.

[1.2.0]

Added

• Offerings can now bill on a schedule: weekly (a pending payment 24 hours before each lesson) or monthly (one payment on the 1st for that month's lessons), alongside the existing one-time and full-term modes. Applies to both private lessons and group classes. A daily job generates due payments, and each student receives one consolidated itemised email per scan; batched payments share a reference so the admin Payments queue groups them with a lump-sum total for e-transfer reconciliation. Cancelling a lesson never voids a scheduled payment.
• Cancelling a lesson that was already paid for now credits the student that money instead of leaving it as a manual refund. The credit is one lesson's share of what they paid — the whole amount for a single lesson, or a per-lesson slice of a monthly charge or a full-term series. The daily billing scan automatically applies any available credit against a student's upcoming weekly/monthly charges before emailing their notice, which shows the credit applied and the reduced total due; a charge fully covered by credit is settled and leaves the admin Payments queue. A student's outstanding credit balance is shown on their student detail page in the studio admin. Still-pending (unpaid) payments continue to be voided on cancellation as before.
• Group classes now carry an enrolment deadline the instructor sets on the offering. It defaults to the first day of the class, and once it passes students can no longer enrol — the enrolment page shows the class as closed and the API rejects late enrolments. While enrolment is open, each class card shows an "Enrol by" date.
• Group classes now also carry a withdrawal deadline the instructor sets per class. Up to that day a student can withdraw themselves from the class (the group-class page shows a Withdraw button) — this frees their seat and voids any pending payment but does not credit their account. After the deadline self-withdrawal closes and the student must ask the studio, who can still withdraw them by hand from the student detail page. Leaving the deadline blank keeps self-withdrawal open indefinitely.
• The Add/Edit Offering form now shows only the fields relevant to the selected kind: the group-class settings (capacity, dates, times, enrolment/withdrawal deadlines, sessions, schedule note, invite-only) appear only for a group class, and the weekly-reservation option only for a private lesson.
• Instructors can add students to any group class by hand from its details page (Add students directly), which now appears for public classes too, not just invite-only ones. This bypasses the enrolment deadline and capacity, so a student can be enrolled as a late enrolment after the class has closed to self-enrolment.
• Studio admins and instructors can open a lesson detail view from the Scheduler and My Lessons lists, showing the offering booked, the policy versions the student accepted (with acceptance time and IP), and their intake answers. On My Lessons an instructor may only open their own lessons; the studio Scheduler may open any.
• The Student Registration block's "registration is by invitation only" message is now customisable, under a new Invitation-only notice panel (shortcode: invite_only_message). Leaving it blank keeps the default wording.

Changed

• The student upcoming lessons panel now shows each booked offering's name and length beside the time, and lists only the soonest five lessons with a "Show all" reveal. The Scheduler and My Lessons week/list views likewise show the booked offering.

Fixed

• Accepting an invitation now keeps the student signed in. Previously the registration form processed the submission after the page had started rendering, so the sign-in cookie was never sent and the new student was bounced back to the (logged-out) registration page; it is now handled before any output, and the student lands logged in.
• Account-registration questions now save. On sites first installed before account-scope questions existed, the us_questions.offering_id column was left NOT NULL (the schema migration relied on dbDelta, which does not reliably relax a column to allow NULL), so saving an account question failed with "Column 'offering_id' cannot be null". A one-time, self-healing migration relaxes the column on the next load.

[1.1.1]

Fixed

• The Enable auto-updates toggle now appears for the plugin on the Plugins screen. The self-updater now reports the plugin to WordPress even when it is already current, so core marks it update-supported and shows the toggle; previously the toggle was hidden between releases.

[1.1.0]

Added

• Invite-only group classes, so a class can be restricted to students who hold an invite.
• Instructor group-class roster view under My Lessons.
• Cancellation cutoff that limits how close to a lesson a student can cancel.
• Studio-defined account-registration questions collected during student sign-up.
• Group classes now carry a specific class time (alongside the date and duration), and studio admins can assign the teaching instructor. Assigning an instructor clears their open booking slots at the class time and flags any already-booked lesson that clashes.
• Students see who teaches each group class and when it meets on the enrolment page. Instructor names in the group-class views (front and back end) show the instructor's real name (first + last) or nickname, never their login/username.

Changed

• Plugin metadata links now point at Unsupervised and the Gitea repository.
• The instructor My Group Classes view is now a summary of classes with enrolment counts; each class links through to a per-class details page (class schedule, roster, and — for invite-only classes — the controls to add or invite students), rather than listing every student inline. Managing who is in an invite-only class is now done from that details page. The studio-admin Group Classes page is likewise a per-class summary that links through to the same details page, so a studio admin — including an owner-operator who also teaches — can view any class's roster and manage its invite-only membership.

[1.0.0]

First stable release: instructor/student lesson scheduling for WordPress, including availability management, one-on-one and group-class booking, Stripe payments, student self-registration with email confirmation and admin approval, group invite links, and self-update from tagged Gitea releases.