Freeze Shipping Alert and Global Hardiness Zones and Frost Data

Changelog

3.4

• Add a Settings shortcut to the plugin row on installed plugins screens.
• Clarify WhatsMy.Zone account connection, API-call usage, and the free 100-call monthly allowance in the settings screen and readme.
• Keep localized climate lookup cache entries separated by active language so frost-date month names do not carry over after switching language packs.
• Use the full Freeze Alert prefix for transient/cache keys and admin redirect parameters.
• Translate updated hardiness-zone shortcode labels and shortcode reference controls across the 3.4 language packs.
• Localize the frost-period month labels in shortcode widgets and cache-bust shortcode assets after file changes.

3.3

• Show the specific climate lookup failure reason in shortcode widgets, including account setup, API-key, rate-limit, and monthly-usage-limit messages returned by WhatsMy.Zone.
• Preserve upstream WhatsMy.Zone lookup errors in the plugin REST wrapper instead of replacing them with a generic no-data response.

3.2

• Fix shortcode frost-safe month bars for southern-hemisphere seasonal locations whose safe season crosses New Year.

3.1

• Load the Freeze Alert admin menu, settings screen, and shortcode reference on WordPress sites that do not have WooCommerce active.
• Keep WooCommerce-only checkout settings and order tools hidden unless WooCommerce is active.
• Remove the hard WooCommerce Select2 dependency from the admin script so shortcode admin tools work on non-WooCommerce sites.

3.0

• Rename the plugin to remove official-agency wording and use Global Hardiness Zones and Frost Data.
• Align package ownership metadata with the WhatsMy.Zone WordPress.org account.
• Add a dedicated external services section with transmitted data and policy links for WhatsMy.Zone, Open-Meteo, and Nominatim/OpenStreetMap.
• Update Tested up to to the WordPress.org major-version format.
• Add explicit settings sanitizers and move flagged inline admin CSS/JS into the enqueued admin assets.
• Clarify that public REST endpoints are intentionally public, read-only, and rate-limited.

2.7.6

• Fix first-time saving of week-based delayed-shipping discount thresholds so values like 4 weeks no longer become 28 weeks after saving
• Make week-based shipping timeframe sanitization safe during first-time option creation

2.7.5

• Harden public lookup and checkout AJAX endpoints with throttling and stricter request validation
• Stop exposing saved API keys, public lookup debug logs, and full checkout addresses in rendered pages, API responses, browser logs, and PHP debug logs
• Restrict language-pack downloads and checkout redirects to trusted HTTPS destinations
• Tighten cache cleanup SQL and reduce stored checkout/session identifiers to privacy-preserving hashes

2.7.4

• Treat Rare Occasional Seasonal Frosts as tropical/no-frost locations for shipping-risk behavior
• Treat Irregular Frosts as permafrost/all-risk locations with no reliable safe shipping date

2.7.3

• Add support for Irregular Frosts and Rare Occasional Seasonal Frosts from the WhatsMy.Zone frost taxonomy
• Avoid showing invalid frost dates or scheduled-delivery dates when a frost class has no reliable safe season

2.7.2

• Add a degree symbol to the forecast low in the historical frost warning and remove the year from the historical frost-season dates

2.7.1

• Fix the Swedish language pack so the new forecast-aware historical freeze warning messages display in Swedish instead of falling back to English

2.7.0

• Use the actual short-term forecast low in the historical frost warning copy, rounded to whole degrees and shown in Fahrenheit for US stores or Celsius elsewhere
• Show month names in the historical frost-window dates and update the forecast-safe protection recommendation wording
• Extend the forecast-aware historical freeze warning messages into the external language packs

2.2.26

• Remove the accidental bundled langpacks plugin-folder fallback and return language-pack sourcing to the external development directory plus remotely installed packs
• Keep the runtime mojibake repair in the language-pack loader so previously broken stored or remote pack text can still recover cleanly

2.2.25

• Repair mojibake at language-pack load time so existing stored or remote packs recover cleanly even if they were previously saved with broken UTF-8 text

2.2.24

• Rebuild the bundled language-pack package with restored UTF-8 metadata and translations so installed admin language packs no longer show mojibake

2.2.23

• Repair mojibake in bundled language-pack labels and translations caused by a bad encoding rewrite during the previous version bump

2.2.22

• Preserve scheduled delivery selections after checkout refreshes even when the currently selected shipping method already matches the protected-shipping recommendation
• Allow delayed-shipping discounts to be applied and validated for scheduled deliveries instead of silently suppressing them when protected shipping is also selected

2.2.21

• Keep Schedule Later Delivery open until the customer confirms a delivery date instead of collapsing on the initial selection refresh
• Refresh delayed-shipping totals through the correct classic or block checkout path so qualifying discounts can appear in the order summary

2.2.20

• Prefer bundled or local authoritative language packs over hosted copies when local source files are present
• Refresh checkout warning translations in external language packs and bump pack metadata for reinstalling updated locales

2.2.19

• Add Hungarian and Czech external language packs

2.2.18

• Add Bulgarian, Greek, and Croatian external language packs

2.2.17

• Add Danish, Polish, and Romanian external language packs

2.2.16

• Add Norwegian, Dutch, and Ukrainian external language packs

2.2.15

• Translate the settings-page Save Changes button through the language manager more directly
• Add Swedish and Finnish external language packs

2.2.14

• Preserve the active Freeze Alert language when the main settings form is saved
• Translate the settings-page Save Changes button through the external Freeze Alert language packs

2.2.13

• Add Korean and Vietnamese external language packs
• Add a settings-page note with the Freeze Alert email address for additional language requests

2.2.12

• Translate the Discover shipping options button and helper text across all external Freeze Alert language packs

2.2.11

• Refresh language-setting caches aggressively after install/activate/remove actions so newly installed packs can be activated reliably

2.2.10

• Hardened language-pack activation so the selected locale persists reliably after clicking Activate
• Added a post-activation verification step that shows a clear error notice if a pack cannot be marked active

2.2.9

• Expanded shipping-option discovery to probe multiple destination countries, including non-default shipping countries such as the US

2.2.8

• Improved shipping-option discovery to calculate package rates through WooCommerce and try multiple sample products/quantities
• Remove stale admin-discovered fallback labels before saving a fresh discovery run

2.2.7

• Added a Discover shipping options button to the settings page so the recommended-shipping selector can be populated on demand
• Improved admin asset cache-busting so new settings-page JavaScript loads immediately after updates

2.2.6

• Prefill the complimentary-protection and protected-shipping disclaimer fields with polished default copy
• Translate the new default protection/disclaimer text across all supported plugin languages

2.2.5

• Add Italian, Portuguese, and Turkish external language packs
• Order settings-page language cards more clearly, with installed packs ahead of uninstalled ones

2.2.4

• Fix leaked placeholder tokens in the Japanese checkout and admin language-pack strings

2.2.3

• Replace the language dropdown with direct Activate actions on compact language cards
• Add Japanese and Simplified Chinese external language packs alongside Spanish, French, and German

2.2.2

• Add French and German external language packs alongside Spanish
• Shorten the checkout panel title to “Freeze Alert” while keeping the longer plugin name elsewhere

2.2.1

• Add downloadable external language-pack support for Freeze Alert settings, frontend copy, shortcodes, and admin screens
• Move Spanish language-pack hosting and deployment outside the plugin bundle

2.1.36

• Show the connected WhatsMy.Zone account email on the shortcode-page hosted widget card when the account identity has synced
• Sync and store the connected WhatsMy.Zone account email alongside the API key identity data

2.1.35

• Move the optional WhatsMy.Zone hosted map widget reference into a more visible shortcode-page card after the built-in shortcode docs
• Clarify that the hosted widget uses the same connected WhatsMy.Zone account and API key as Freeze Alert

2.1.34

• Add placeholder WhatsMy.Zone privacy and terms links to the admin shortcode notice and service FAQ disclosure

2.1.33

• Add an admin-only note on the Shortcodes screen pointing users to the optional separate WhatsMy.Zone hosted map widget builder
• Clarify there that the external widget service is optional and not required for Freeze Alert functionality

2.1.32

• Remove the interactive map shortcode and its admin references from the plugin
• Keep the shortcode feature set focused on zone, frost-date, and growing-season widgets

2.1.31

• Switch the map shortcode to locally served basemap tiles from the WhatsMy.Zone tile package instead of loading CARTO tiles in visitors’ browsers
• Require the installed map tile package to include the new basemap layers used for OpenStreetMap/OpenMapTiles attribution-compliant rendering

2.1.30

• Bundle Leaflet locally inside the plugin instead of loading it from a third-party CDN
• Update the readme data-source wording to reflect the bundled local map library

2.1.29

• Update the plugin description and readme to match the current WhatsMy.Zone-backed service architecture
• Clarify that paid WhatsMy.Zone plans affect service usage limits rather than shipping a separate premium plugin build
• Refresh installation and shortcode documentation to match the current admin screens

2.1.28

• Stop Reconnect Account from silently replacing a valid WhatsMyZone key with a newly created or lower-tier account
• Surface WhatsMyZone reconnect conflict errors clearly and explain when reconnect should actually be used

2.1.27

• Stop the WhatsMyZone settings page from auto-reconnecting to a different site-linked account when it renders
• Keep live plan and usage synced from the configured API key while leaving account replacement as an explicit reconnect action

2.1.26

• Re-sync the locally stored WhatsMy.Zone API key, user ID, and tier from the authoritative site account before rendering account settings
• Ensure WhatsMy.Zone upgrade actions target the refreshed connected account instead of a stale stored user ID

2.1.25

• Stop blank or edited route rows from preserving old hidden geocode data when settings are saved
• Clear route point hidden coordinates immediately when the visible route address is changed or emptied in admin

2.1.24

• Show when a route exposure point, not just the destination, is the source driving the latest safe shipping date at checkout
• Make the checkout warning and safe-date hint name the specific route point when it is setting the recommendation

2.1.23

• Base the recommended safe shipping date only on checkout points that are actually at freeze risk in the current delivery window
• Prevent non-risky route exposure points from lingering as a later safe date on destination-based checkout alerts

2.1.22

• Prefer the active checkout address fields instead of stale hidden shipping fields so Freeze Alert follows the destination the customer is actually editing
• Align checkout validation and saved order freeze data with the same active-address logic

2.1.21

• Recheck freeze risk immediately when checkout address details change so stale safe dates do not linger from a previous lookup
• Clear plugin lookup caches on upgrade so updated climate and geocode results are used right away

2.1.20

• Rebalance the WhatsMyZone upgrade panel styling so it feels more at home in WordPress admin while keeping the same tier cards and billing toggle

2.1.19

• Replace the basic WhatsMyZone upgrade selector on the settings page with account-style subscription cards and a monthly/yearly billing toggle
• Keep plan upgrades wired to the existing WhatsMyZone Stripe checkout flow while showing the current plan and live usage more clearly

2.1.18

• Make the order metabox forecast check target the riskiest saved point in the shipment path instead of always using the destination
• Save and display whether the customer accepted an even later weather-based shipping date for scheduled deliveries

2.1.17

• Preserve Freeze Alert order records from checkout session data when order creation cannot re-run the full address assessment
• Keep scheduled-delivery selections and saved ship dates on orders even when the order-save step must fall back to session assessment data

2.1.16

• Let Route Exposure Points trigger checkout assessment even when the destination address cannot be geocoded
• Improve checkout messaging for route-only assessment results

2.1.15

• Make Route Exposure Points participate in checkout freeze-risk assessment instead of only being stored in settings
• Show route-specific checkout messaging when a configured transit point is the source of freeze risk

2.1.14

• Move Debug Mode to the bottom of the settings page just above Save Changes
• Disable the assessed-countries selector when Freeze Alert is set to assess all shipping countries

2.1.13

• Show “Ship now” on the Freeze Alert orders page when an assessed order does not have a delayed shipping date

2.1.12

• Show accepted-risk selections again on the Freeze Alert orders page while keeping the accepted-risk stats tied to confirmed acceptance
• Add a warning note on the Freeze Alert orders page when checkout assessment is disabled in settings

2.1.11

• Preserve accepted-risk orders on the admin metabox by inferring the saved customer choice from a confirmed risk-acceptance checkbox when needed
• Show accepted-risk selections on the order metabox even when the saved choice value is missing but the acceptance state is present

2.1.10

• Count accepted-risk orders only when the customer actually checked the freeze-risk acceptance box
• Require the freeze-risk acceptance checkbox before checkout can complete with “Ship Now Anyway”

2.1.9

• Tighten the Freeze Alert orders dashboard stat cards so more of them fit on one row on wide screens
• Make Freeze-Sensitive Categories include products assigned through selected subcategories, not only direct category matches
• Add settings to assess all shipping countries, only selected countries, or all except selected countries

2.1.8

• Let the Freeze Alert orders stats cards size to their content so more cards fit on one row on wide screens
• Remove the temporary dashboard note beneath the orders-page intro

2.1.7

• Add richer Freeze Alert orders dashboard cards for assessed carts, risked orders, and checkout option usage
• Start tracking checkout assessments so abandoned carts can contribute to the dashboard stats going forward, and simplify the orders-page pagination links

2.1.6

• Make every column on the Freeze Alert orders admin page sortable and keep sort state while paging
• Add admin search for Freeze Alert orders by order number, customer name, and shipping address

2.1.5

• Ensure saved scheduled and admin shipping dates always render on Freeze Alert admin order summaries even when the site’s WordPress date format setting is blank
• Keep the WooCommerce order metabox and the Freeze Alert orders page aligned on hold and shipping date display

2.1.4

• Make the Freeze Alert orders admin page query assessed orders correctly on both legacy order storage and HPOS, with safer assessment badges and improved date handling
• Clean up the Freeze Alert orders page layout by removing the unused placed-date column and fixing horizontal pagination

2.1.3

• Add a dedicated admin toggle for showing a checkout reason when protection products are not offered for the shipment
• Make the checkout protection-unavailable note work independently from the complimentary-protection toggle

2.1.2

• Remove the extra complimentary-protection shipping-timeframe rule and rely on the store’s main shipping window setting instead
• Simplify the default complimentary-protection unavailable message

2.1.1

• Show the complimentary-protection unavailable reason on checkout even when no protection products are currently configured

2.1.0

• Add merchant controls for complimentary freeze protection, including automatic free inclusion and customer-facing included/unavailable notices

2.0.31

• Reconcile recommended-shipping visibility against the live checkout DOM so the alert behaves correctly for both single-option and multi-option shipping layouts

2.0.30

• Use visible checkout shipping methods as recommendation candidates so the recommended-shipping card still appears when the option is on the page but server-side available-rate matching falls short

2.0.29

• Detect recommended shipping from shipment-summary rows like “Shipment 1” and hide the recommendation card when no recommended shipping option is actually available

2.0.28

• Capture shipping labels from checkout summary rows when no shipping radios/selects are rendered, so single recommended methods are recognized as already selected

2.0.27

• Improve recommended-shipping matching so a single available recommended option is treated as already selected even with plugin-added prefixes like “Shipment 1”

2.0.26

• Replace broken customer-facing icon and checkmark text with clean UTF-safe checkout labels

2.0.25

• Remove UTF-8 BOM from PHP files touched in the previous update so checkout AJAX responses remain valid JSON

2.0.24

• Clarify checkout freeze-risk wording so it explicitly refers to the customer’s delivery location

2.0.23

• Polish the later-delivery consent text to more natural English
• Update the readme to reflect the current hybrid data sources, protected shipping recommendations, delayed-shipping discounts, and real cart-based protection items

2.0.22

• Make the freeze-protection option wording more general and merchant-friendly, and update the later-delivery consent text

2.0.21

• Add stronger guidance in the freeze-protection option when two or more protection choices are available, recommending at least one or a combination of several

2.0.20

• Refresh the freeze alert when cart items are removed so stale protection coverage is cleared promptly
• Keep the protection session aligned with real WooCommerce cart contents when protection items are removed outside the alert

2.0.19

• Allow manually typing recommended shipping labels when no observed checkout labels are available yet
• Preserve observed checkout shipping labels across uninstall/reinstall so the selector can repopulate after future reinstalls

2.0.18

• Mirror protection cart removals back into the freeze alert by refreshing protection state from the real cart after checkout updates

2.0.17

• Persist protection cart-item changes before checkout redraw and trigger a WooCommerce fragment refresh so protection items appear immediately

2.0.16

• Treat a single visible protected shipping option on checkout as already covered even when WooCommerce has not marked it selected yet

2.0.15

• Treat the only available protected shipping method as already covered instead of asking the customer to select it again
• Switched freeze protection products from fee-style checkout add-ons to real WooCommerce cart items, with synced add/remove behavior

2.0.14

• Further reduced vertical spacing inside the schedule option to remove remaining dead space between lines and helper text

2.0.13

• Tightened vertical spacing in the recommended shipping and schedule option content
• Renamed the risk option to “Ship Now Anyway” and hide it when protected shipping or freeze protection is already in use
• Count protection products already selected in session or already present in cart so they are no longer re-offered

2.0.12

• Tightened line spacing for the recommended shipping and schedule option copy
• Kept Schedule Later Delivery open when the flexible-date checkbox is toggled by saving without forcing a totals refresh
• Synced protection product state from the WooCommerce session so already-selected protection items are not offered again after checkout refreshes

2.0.11

• Hide the recommended shipping option card when the currently selected shipping method already matches the protected label
• Keep Schedule Later Delivery open on first selection instead of immediately refreshing checkout
• Stop offering freeze protection products that are already present in the cart

2.0.10

• Reworded the protected-shipping confirmation to be more reassuring for recommended frost-season shipping
• Kept Schedule Later Delivery open on first selection by delaying checkout refresh until a ship date is chosen
• Added a green completed state to freeze options that are already in use

2.0.9

• Removed the non-functional Recommended badge from the protected shipping option card
• Switched protected-shipping matching to use the currently selected checkout shipping label as well as the rate ID, so the note updates more reliably

2.0.8

• Simplified protected-shipping checkout guidance to update the note based on whether the recommended shipping option is already selected
• Removed the one-click shipping switch from the freeze alert panel to keep the behavior reliable across third-party shipping UIs

2.0.7

• Improved one-click protected shipping selection by clicking the actual checkout shipping control and forcing a WooCommerce refresh afterward
• Added stronger fallback event dispatching for third-party shipping method UIs

2.0.6

• Added an optional protected-shipping disclaimer for admins and surfaced it on checkout when the customer selects a matching shipping option
• Compared the currently selected shipping label against recommended protected labels and added one-click switching to matching protected rates when needed

2.0.5

• Reduced recommended shipping selector choices to unique short labels such as carrier names only
• Normalized older saved shipping recommendation labels to the same short format without auto-selecting new defaults

2.0.4

• Replaced the single recommended shipping text field with a searchable multi-select based on observed live checkout labels
• Added support for recommending multiple shipping option labels at checkout and in saved order notes

2.0.3

• Shortened observed checkout rate labels to prefer cleaner customer-facing shipping names in debug output
• Trimmed trailing price and plugin marker details from captured shipping labels when possible

2.0.2

• Stopped forcing a full checkout refresh for freeze-option selections that do not affect totals, so the chosen option stays open more reliably
• Re-applied the saved panel state after WooCommerce finishes rebuilding checkout markup

2.0.1

• Preserve the selected checkout freeze option when WooCommerce refreshes checkout totals
• Simplified the freeze alert to keep the dates in the main sentence only, with bold date emphasis

2.0.0

• Added a visible delayed-shipping discount message to the checkout alert when the discount setting is active
• Improved checkout wording for the delivery window, safer shipping date, and recommended ship date display

1.9.0

• Simplified merchant-facing wording for the recommended shipping option
• Hid observed checkout rate diagnostics behind a new Debug Mode setting

1.8.0

• Switched protected shipping recommendation to a simple admin-entered option name instead of fragile shipping rate ID matching
• Continued showing observed live checkout rates only as a debug/reference list for choosing a customer-facing label

1.7.0

• Improved checkout DOM scraping for third-party shipping option labels
• Added an admin debug view showing the raw observed checkout shipping rates captured from live checkout

1.6.0

• Preserve observed live checkout shipping labels in the admin protected shipping selector instead of letting fallback WooCommerce zone labels overwrite them

1.5.0

• Capture actual checkout-visible shipping options through a dedicated sync so third-party rates appear in the protected shipping selector more reliably
• Refresh observed shipping rates when checkout shipping methods render or change, even before the freeze warning panel is used

1.4.0

• Added support for observed real checkout shipping rate labels alongside configured WooCommerce shipping methods

1.3.0

• Preserve WhatsMy.Zone account credentials across uninstall/reinstall on the same site
• Updated account connection UI to support reconnecting an existing site account

1.2.0

• Aligned plugin metadata and readme versioning for more reliable WordPress installs and upgrades
• Added protected shipping method support, including observed third-party checkout rates
• Added delayed-shipping discount settings and improved checkout protection flows

1.0.0

• Initial release
• WooCommerce checkout integration
• Shortcodes for zone, frost, season, and map
• Admin order weather forecast
• REST API endpoints