Description

Aprus Appointment Calendar is a lightweight, no-frills booking plugin. You set your opening hours, drag-select the exact slots you want to be bookable, and clients book through a clean calendar embedded anywhere on your site.

Features

Two client views — monthly calendar and weekly column layout
Embed anywhere — [apruapca_calendar] shortcode, classic widget or Gutenberg block (Aprus Appointment Calendar / Aprus Appointment Calendar (columns))
Admin availability grid — drag-select a rectangle over slots to open or close them in bulk. Booked slots are protected from accidental change.
Appointment duration + break — control slot generation with duration and buffer between visits
Working days & hours — per-day-of-week toggle, lead time (earliest booking), calendar range (how far ahead)
Booking popover — hover a booked slot in admin to see client details and cancel with one click; cancellation sends an e-mail notification
Automatic locale — Polish or English based on WordPress site language, English by default
Respects your WP settings — start_of_week (Monday vs Sunday), time_format (24h / 12h AM-PM)
E-mail notifications — customer + admin messages via wp_mail()
No accounts required — clients book by e-mail

Free and open source

The plugin is fully free — no premium tier, no artificially blocked features. If you find it useful, you can buy me a coffee on Ko-fi or on buycoffee.to. It helps me keep the project maintained.

Privacy

The plugin stores appointment data (name, e-mail, phone, note, date, time) in your own WordPress database. Nothing is sent to third-party servers. E-mails go through the standard wp_mail() function.

Screenshots

Monthly calendar view for clients — pick a day, then a time slot

Weekly column view — days as columns, slots as rows — Monthly calendar view for clients — pick a day, then a time slot

Blocks

This plugin provides 2 blocks.

Appointment calendar (monthly)
Appointment calendar (columns)

Installation

Upload the plugin folder to /wp-content/plugins/ or install from Plugins Add New Upload
Activate Aprus Appointment Calendar in the Plugins list
Open Appointments Settings, adjust hours / duration / working days
Open Appointments Calendar and drag over slots to open them for clients
Add the shortcode [apruapca_calendar] (or [apruapca_calendar view="columns"]) to any page/post, or drop the block/widget on your site

FAQ

How do I display the weekly column view?: Use [apruapca_calendar view="columns"] in the shortcode, or pick Aprus Appointment Calendar (columns) in the block editor / widgets.
Can clients see all slots by default?: No. In this plugin nothing is bookable until you explicitly open slots in Appointments Calendar. Drag over the slots you want to make available.
Can I cancel a booking?: Yes. In Appointments Calendar, hover a blue (booked) slot — a popover appears with client details and a “Cancel booking” button. The client gets an e-mail notification. You can also cancel from Appointments Bookings.
Does it support 12-hour time format?: Yes. The calendar reads your Settings General Time format — H:i shows 24-hour times (13:00), g:i a shows 12-hour (1:00 pm).
Does the week start on Monday or Sunday?: Whatever you set in Settings General Week starts on.
Does the plugin phone home / call external services?: No. All data stays in your WordPress database. E-mails use wp_mail().

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Contributors & Developers

“Aprus Appointment Calendar” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

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Changelog

2.5.0

Month view now colours each day by availability — days with open slots get a green tint and dot, fully-booked days are greyed out and not clickable, with a small legend below the calendar
Redesigned the empty “no free slots” state (centred icon + message) instead of a cramped line of text
Spam / bot protection for the public booking form, all configurable under Settings Spam protection (on by default, no external services): honeypot field, time trap (rejects submits faster than a human — default 3s) and a per-IP rate limit (default 5 bookings / 60 min)
Unique prefixes across the whole plugin, per WordPress.org review feedback: functions, classes, constants, options, hooks, nonces, AJAX actions, menu slugs, script/style handles, widget id, block namespaces and the custom table renamed from the 3-letter sac prefix to apruapca (8 chars)
Renamed the shortcode from the generic [appointment_calendar] to [apruapca_calendar] for the same uniqueness requirement
Wrap global variables in uninstall.php in a prefixed function
Refreshed the front-end booking form — a summary chip with calendar icon for the chosen slot, uppercase field labels with clearer spacing, larger inputs, and a redesigned confirmation / error message (status icon, subtle fade-in, no empty space reserved before a booking is made)
Verified on a clean WP_DEBUG install — no notices, warnings or deprecations across activation, front-end views, all AJAX endpoints, the full booking lifecycle, settings save and uninstall

2.4.4

Pass all Plugin Check audits: WordPress coding standards, i18n compliance, DB safety, output escaping
Migrate SQL queries to modern %i identifier placeholder (requires WordPress 6.2+)
All translatable strings go through __() with English source (Poedit / GlotPress friendly)
Add translators: comments on placeholders in e-mail templates
Replace date() with gmdate() for timezone-safe date math
Ordered sprintf placeholders (%1$s, %2$s) in all multi-arg strings

2.4.3

Switch to WordPress standard i18n with .pot / .po / .mo files (in /languages/)
All source strings are English; Polish translation shipped as aprus-appointment-calendar-pl_PL.mo
Localized month and weekday labels use WordPress core translations via wp_date()
Full code comments translated to English

2.4.2

Fix layout shift after selecting a day in the monthly view (theme CSS interference)
overflow: hidden on the calendar card so nothing escapes
min-width: 0 on grid children — prevents column widening under long content

2.4.0

Respect WordPress start_of_week — Monday or Sunday
Respect WordPress time_format — 24h / 12h AM-PM in slot labels and popover
Minor CSS reset to prevent themes from breaking labels and headings

2.3.0

Full visual redesign — modern colour palette, spacing, typography

2.2.0

Admin availability: rubber-band rectangle selection (mouse drag or touch)
Auto-jump on first load to the first week with clickable slots
Stronger user-select: none to stop theme CSS from breaking drag

2.1.0

Booking popover on hover (client details + cancel)
Cancel booking endpoint with customer e-mail notification
Full i18n — auto-detected Polish / English

2.0.0

New availability model — nothing is bookable by default; admin opens slots explicitly
Add appointment duration + buffer settings

1.0.0

First release

Description

Features

Free and open source

Privacy

Screenshots

Blocks

Installation

FAQ

How do I display the weekly column view?

Can clients see all slots by default?

Can I cancel a booking?

Does it support 12-hour time format?

Does the week start on Monday or Sunday?

Does the plugin phone home / call external services?