Plain Tracker

Plain Tracker is a time clock plugin designed to help your organization keep track of hours worked by employees or volunteers. Users can quickly clock in and clock out. Managers can easily keep track of employees and their time with time clock logs and reports. Features:

• Employees can clock in and clock out from shifts.
• Admins can easily create new worker accounts for existing Wordpress users.
• Admins can create and edit time log records.
• Admins can view who is currently working in real time.
• Admins can filter and group the list of time clock entries to analyze their users attendance.

Pro features:

• Admins can export activity to CSV file.
• Admins can view the total number of time records and work duration within the selected date period with breakdown by worker.
• Admins can filter the time records list by one or more workers.
• More features to come very soon.

Learn more about Plain Tracker Pro

Automatic installation Automatic installation is the easiest option as WordPress handles the file transfers itself and you don't even need to leave your web browser. To do an automatic install:

• Log in to your WordPress admin panel, navigate to the Plugins menu and click Add New.
• In the search field type "PlainTracker" and click Search Plugins.
• Once you've found the plugin you can install it by clicking Install Now.

Manual Installation The manual installation method involves downloading the plugin and uploading it to your web server.

• Download the plugin file and unzip it.
• Using an FTP program, or your hosting control panel, upload the unzipped plugin folder to your WordPress installation's wp-content/plugins/ directory.
• Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in the WordPress admin.

3.1.2 (2026-07-06)

• Minor code fixes.

3.1.1 (2025-12-01)

• Clean up some code related to web form controls.

3.1.0 (2025-11-26)

• Framework core update.

3.0.4 (2025-10-10)

• BUG: Time was displayed incorrectly if the WordPress timezone was set to an UTC-relative option (like UTC+1).

3.0.3 (2025-10-02)

• Added Clock-in note and Clock-out note text inputs.

3.0.2 (2025-04-03)

• Minor fixes.

3.0.1 (2025-03-25)

• Now workers are created from Wordpress user accounts.

3.0.0 (2025-03-20)

• Plain Tracker becomes a time clock application.

2.3.1 (2024-12-23)

• Minor fixes.

2.3.0 (2024-12-16)

• Framework code updates.

2.2.6 (2024-11-05)

• Framework code updates.

2.2.5 (2024-11-05)

• BUG: Some framework files were loaded incorrectly.

2.2.4 (2024-10-19)

• Some framework code updates.

2.2.3 (2024-08-13)

• BUG: The list of activities were displayed incomplete on the Worker profile page.
• Added language files.
• A few visual tweaks.

2.2.2 (2024-07-26)

• Added a login link from a page or post with our shortcode.

2.2.1 (2024-07-25)

• BUG: Workers couldn't add timesheets for themselves. Now a worker can go to My Timesheets, Add new.
• Added an option for an administrator to test accessing the system as a worker.

2.2.0 (2024-07-11)

• Added timesheets functionality.
• Added approvers for workers.

2.1.0 (2024-06-14)

• Added start and end dates for projects. Now it is possible to use projects as pay periods.
• Redesigned many parts of the admin area for more efficient work and navigation within the plugin.
• Added the option for employees to submit their time cards for further approval by managers.

2.0.2 (2024-01-30)

• Redesigned admin area for quicker page load and navigation.

2.0.1 (2024-01-11)

• Minor fixes.

2.0.0 (2023-12-23)

• Plain Tracker makes a pivot and becomes a timesheet application to record and track time of employees.

1.2.5

• Minor fixes.

1.2.4

• Code optimization.

1.2.3

• Added bulk actions for activities.
• Code optimization.

1.2.2

• Code optimization.

1.2.1

• BUG: a fatal error could happen as the plugin could try to handle not its own actions.

1.2.0

• Code optimization.

1.1.3

• Code optimization.

1.1.2

• Added a form to add multiple records per for one day.

1.1.1

• Added option to change activities display order.
• Code optimization.

1.1.0

• Code optimization.

1.0.2

• Code optimization.

1.0.1

• Code optimization.

1.0.0

• Initial release.