WSMaker — Training Management System, CRM & Event Manager

WSMaker is a full Training Management System (TMS) — not just a CRM, not just an LMS. It combines event and workshop scheduling, an attendee CRM with two-way communication tracking, and a marketing creative suite in one plugin, designed for course creators, educators, trainers, agencies, academies, and event organizers across any industry. Full, human-readable source code (including the Vue.js source behind the compiled admin panel bundles in assets/dist/, under admin-src/) is publicly available at: github.com/Francesco1968a/wsmaker — to rebuild a bundle: cd admin-src && npm install && WS_BUNDLE=<bundle-name> npx vite build (bundle names match the assets/dist/*.js filenames). Developed by Francesco Verolino Whether you run photography workshops, masterclasses, business seminars, art retreats, or online training, WSMaker provides the frictionless workflow to manage every aspect of your events. 🌟 Key Features

• Event & Workshop Management: Create and schedule single-day or multi-day workshops, define categories, maximum seats, pricing, and registration status.
• Participant CRM: Centralized attendee database with complete history, registration status (Requested, Confirmed, Cancelled), multi-person booking support, and custom attendee notes.
• Interactive Communication Timeline: Complete log of interactions with attendees (Email sent, Replies received, Status updates), backed by two-way IMAP/SMTP integration.
• Smart T-15 Email Reminders: Automated summary reminders dispatched 15 days before the event start date to confirmed participants.
• Built-in Social Banner & Poster Studio: In-browser graphic studio with real-time canvas rendering. Generate square (Instagram feed), portrait (Stories/Reels), and landscape (Facebook) promo posters with custom typography, background photo manipulation, and instant PNG export.
• Anti-Spam & Rate Limiting Engine: Native IP-based rate limiting and invisible honeypot protection to safeguard your registration endpoints against bot flooding.
• Pure WordPress Native Admin: Fast, clean interface respecting the official WordPress design system, lightweight and clutter-free.

1.1.6

• Full source-string i18n overhaul: the plugin's UI was hardcoded in Italian despite the public listing being in English. Flipped the PHP source strings to English (Italian now ships as a proper translation), and built i18n infrastructure for the Vue admin panels from scratch (they previously had none) — all 15 Vue panels plus the vanilla-JS Poster Templates screen now translate.
• Added 4 new complete translations: Spanish (es_ES), French (fr_FR), German (de_DE), and Brazilian Portuguese (pt_BR) — alongside the existing Italian (it_IT).
• Fixed 27 admin menu labels in the Italian translation that had a translated-looking but untranslated string (msgstr identical to the English msgid), so they silently stayed in English even with the Italian locale active.
• Repositioned the plugin as a Training Management System (TMS): updated title, tags, and description.
• Fixed several stale/broken references in this readme (old workshop-suite folder name, Italian menu labels, non-clickable bare URLs).

1.1.5

• Renamed the last remaining short-prefixed identifiers found by review: two shortcode tags ([eventi_categoria]→[wsma_eventi_categoria], [workshop_prossimo]→[wsma_workshop_prossimo]), a transient cache key, an admin menu slug, and the Webhooks module's form/nonce action names — all now under the wsma_/wsma- namespace, no leftover ws_/ws- prefixes.
• Existing published pages using the two old shortcode tags were migrated to the new tags directly (no alias layer needed going forward).

1.1.4

• Removed the Custom CSS admin feature from this (free) plugin — arbitrary CSS/code insertion is no longer permitted per WordPress.org guidelines. (The equivalent feature remains available only in the separately-distributed PRO add-on, not reviewed by WordPress.org.)
• Disclosed the Jitsi Meet external service (used only by the optional virtual-classroom shortcode) and documented the plugin's non-compiled JS source location in the readme.
• Switched an unescaped HTML echo ([ws_acquista] connector output) to wp_kses_post().
• Renamed the remaining short (ws/wv) prefixed global identifiers to the wsma/WSMA namespace: custom post types (ws_evento→wsma_evento, ws_partecipante→wsma_partecipante, ws_iscrizione→wsma_iscrizione), taxonomy (categoria_evento→wsma_categoria_evento), the license option/settings group, the Hub Sync legacy-backfill flag, and two internal options. A one-time migration on upgrade moves existing data to the new post type/taxonomy names automatically — no re-entry needed.
• Shortcode tags ([ws_form_iscrizione], [ws_acquista], [ws_prezzo], [ws_acconto], [ws_proponente], [ws_workshop_page], [ws_aula_virtuale], [ws_workshop_text]) now have wsma_-prefixed primary equivalents; the original tags remain registered as permanent aliases so pages built before this update keep working unchanged.

1.1.3

• Fixed [ws_form_iscrizione] silently failing to submit whenever a page embeds more than one instance of the form (e.g. one inline plus one per date inside a "Request info" modal). The frontend script relied on getElementById() against a non-unique ID, so only the first instance on the page ever got its submit handler attached — every other instance fell back to a native browser form submission (page reload, no data sent, no error shown). Now every instance is wired up independently via its shared CSS classes.
• The admin notification email for a new registration request now includes the city and number of attendees the visitor entered (previously silently omitted).
• New optional setting (Settings → General, off by default): add a city/country hint to that same email, looked up from the visitor's IP via ip-api.com.

1.1.2

• Renamed the plugin from Workshop Suite to WSMaker (trademark conflict resolution requested by the WordPress.org review team) — new text domain wsmaker, updated branding throughout.
• Renamed all internal PHP class/interface/constant names and custom hook names from the WS_/ws_ prefix to WSM_/wsm_ for a properly unique namespace (no functional change; a corresponding update ships in the PRO add-on to keep both in sync).
• Switched all date()/parse_url() calls to their WordPress-safe equivalents (current_time(), wp_date(), wp_parse_url()) for correct timezone handling across installs.
• Hardened output escaping across admin screens and shortcodes; gated remaining debug error_log() calls behind WP_DEBUG.
• Fixed the Global Hub Sync module silently failing to fire since the evento → ws_evento post type rename (stale hook name).

1.1.0

• Category price and deposit fields, with [ws_prezzo]/[ws_acconto] shortcodes.
• Payment status tracking on registrations (pending / deposit paid / paid in full).
• Category price/deposit prefill in the attendee intake form.
• Category-scoped date filtering for the registration form shortcode.
• Category and event geo-location fields (city, country, address), with automatic fallback from event to category and syndication to the Global Hub.
• Full Vue 3 source rewrite of every admin panel (Calendario, Archivio, Messaggi, Riepilogo, Scheda Partecipante, Anagrafica, Ringraziamento, Dashboard) — no more editing minified bundles by hand.
• Monthly calendar view added to the Calendario panel, alongside the existing subscription/ICS card.
• Restored the frontend dark/light theme switch for shortcode-embedded admin panels (Settings → Default Frontend Theme); wp-admin's own pages are unaffected.
• New [workshop_categorie] shortcode for a dedicated frontend Categorie/Tipologia panel, alongside the existing [workshop_admin] (Eventi/Partecipanti).
• Removed several hundred lines of dead code (an abandoned course-access subsystem, an unreachable Locandine prototype, a handful of orphaned helper functions).
• Ongoing rebrand cleanup and internal hardening.

1.0.0

• Initial public release on WordPress.org.
• All-in-one Event Manager with category and format configuration.
• Comprehensive Attendee CRM with full interaction timeline.
• HTML5 Canvas Poster & Social Banner Builder with custom font rendering.
• Automated T-15 email reminders with WP Timezone synchronization.
• Configurable IP rate limiting and honeypot protection.
• Clean native WordPress Admin interface.