WhenPilot

WhenPilot is a lightweight appointment booking plugin for small businesses — salons, clinics, consultants, tutors. Everything stays on your own site; there is no third-party booking service. Features

• Define services (name, duration, optional price, description).
• Set your weekly opening hours in a simple text format (e.g. Mo-Fr 09:00-17:00).
• Visitors book with the [whenpilot] shortcode: pick a service, a date, and a free time slot computed from your hours and existing bookings.
• Double-booking prevention: slots are re-validated on the server before saving, with a configurable capacity (e.g. number of staff).
• Admin inbox: see upcoming/pending/confirmed/cancelled bookings, confirm, cancel or delete.
• Email confirmations to the customer and a notification to you, plus emails when you confirm or cancel.
• Configurable lead time, how far ahead people can book, currency label and an optional auto-confirm.
• Uses your site's timezone. Works with any theme.

Usage: create a page, add the shortcode [whenpilot], and publish. All features described above are fully functional in this plugin — no time limits, no usage caps, no locked options. WhenPilot does not connect to any external service. A separately distributed companion plugin offers additional features (multiple staff/resources with custom fields, automatic email reminders) but is not required for the plugin to work.

1.0.4

• Renamed the plugin from "Booking Light" to "WhenPilot" with new slug whenpilot.
• Removed all artificial feature caps: unlimited services and capacity above 1 are now fully available out of the box.
• Lowered the top-level admin menu position (70) so the plugin no longer competes with core WordPress menu items.
• Internal cleanup: all prefixes, hooks, options, table names, shortcode and class names updated to the new name.

1.0.3

• Hardening: all custom-table queries now use $wpdb->prepare() with the %i identifier placeholder for table names, and $wpdb->insert/update/delete calls are marked with explicit phpcs:ignore comments. No functional changes.
• Bumped minimum WordPress version to 6.2 (required by the %i placeholder).

1.0.2

• Fixed: calendar weekday columns could be misaligned when the site's "Week starts on" was not Sunday.

1.0.1

• New: the booking form now uses an inline month calendar to pick the date (closed days and past dates are greyed out) instead of a plain date field.

1.0.0

• Initial public release: services, weekly hours, free-slot booking form, double-booking prevention, admin inbox and email confirmations.