Title: Legba Volunteer Author: pierreht Published: October 12, 2026 Last modified: October 12, 2026 --- Search plugins ![](https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/legba-volunteer.svg) # Legba Volunteer By [pierreht](https://profiles.wordpress.org/pierreht/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/legba-volunteer.0.3.2.zip) * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/legba-volunteer/#description) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/legba-volunteer/#reviews) * [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/legba-volunteer/#installation) * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/legba-volunteer/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/legba-volunteer/) ## Description Legba Volunteer replaces the paper sheet and the spreadsheet: you publish what you need help with, people choose their shifts, and you know who is coming, who came and how many hours each person gave. **Opportunities and shifts** * An opportunity is a page like any other (text, image, categories) with its place and its contact person. * Add as many shifts as you want: role or task, date, start, end and number of places. Duplicate a shift in one click. * Shifts that end after midnight are supported. * Close the sign-ups of an opportunity when you have enough people. **Ask people when they are available** * Switch an opportunity to “Availability”: instead of taking a place, people tick all the dates and hours that suit them. * Make it private: the opportunity is hidden from your lists, the search and search engines, and only people who have the link can answer. * Copy the link and share it by email, text message or social network. * People change their answers at any time with their own link. * Answers are listed by date and hour. Put a person on the schedule in one click: they receive their schedule, with the calendar file and a link to cancel. **Volunteer application form** * `[legba_volunteer_apply]` lets anyone offer to help, before any specific opportunity: contact details, weekly availability (days × morning, afternoon, evening), areas of interest, skills and motivation. * Applications wait for your approval (or are accepted at once), with an email to the person either way. * Volunteers update their details and their weekly availability from their “My shifts” page. **Sign-up without an account** * Volunteers tick one or several shifts and give their name and email. No account, no password. * Places left are shown on each shift. When a shift is full, new people go on the waitlist and are confirmed automatically, in order, as soon as someone cancels. * Optional phone number, comment box and consent checkbox with your own text. * Optionally show the first names of the people already signed up. * Works without JavaScript, and on cached pages. **Emails** * Confirmation with the shifts, an “Add to my calendar” file (.ics) and a link to cancel. * “A place opened up” email for people on the waitlist. * Reminder a number of hours before each shift (24 by default). * Notification to your team, or to the contact person of the opportunity, for each sign-up and cancellation. **“My shifts” page** * Each volunteer has a private link (sent by email, no account) that shows the upcoming shifts, with the calendar file and the cancel link, the past shifts and the total hours recorded. * You can stop online cancellations a number of hours before a shift. **Attendance and hours** * Sign-ups screen grouped by shift, with filters by opportunity, period and status. * Mark people present or absent (“All present” in one click). The hours are filled with the length of the shift and can be corrected. * Add a person yourself (phone or in-person sign-ups). * Print the attendance sheet of a shift. * List of volunteers with the number of shifts and the hours done, the history of each person and private notes for your team. * CSV exports of sign-ups and of volunteers that open cleanly in Excel (accents kept, spreadsheet-formula injection blocked). **Privacy** * Spam protection without puzzles: invisible honeypot, minimum filling time and a limit per visitor. * WordPress personal data export and erase tools, suggested privacy policy text. * Data is removed when the plugin is deleted only if you ask for it. * No outside service: nothing is sent anywhere except the emails of your own site. **Legba Volunteer Pro** A separate Pro version adds: reminders by text message (SMS) and WhatsApp with your own Twilio account, a second reminder and “send a reminder now”, invitations by email with the list of who answered, the availability grid to make the schedule, messages to the volunteers of a shift, certificates of volunteer hours, several shifts at once, moving all the dates, duplicating an opportunity, a thank-you email and a dashboard widget. Everything described above is in the free version and stays free. **Use it anywhere** ``` [legba_volunteer] shows all the opportunities with upcoming shifts. `[legba_volunteer id="12"]` shows one, `[legba_volunteer category="festival" limit="5"]` a category. The "Volunteer opportunities" block offers the same options. `[legba_volunteer_apply]` is the volunteer application form and `[legba_volunteer_my]` the "My shifts" page. ``` Translated in French (France and Canada). ## Blocks This plugin provides 1 block. * Volunteer opportunities ## Installation 1. Install and activate the plugin. 2. Go to Volunteers Add an opportunity: write the text, then add the shifts in the“ Shifts” box. 3. Add the “Volunteer opportunities” block or the `[legba_volunteer]` shortcode to a page. 4. Optional: create a page with `[legba_volunteer_my]` and choose it in Volunteers Settings “My shifts” page. ## FAQ ### Do volunteers need an account? No. They sign up with their name and email, and open their “My shifts” page with a private link sent by email. ### What happens when a shift is full? New people go on the waitlist. When a confirmed person cancels, the first person waiting is confirmed and receives an email. ### How are hours counted? When you mark a person present, the length of the shift is recorded. You can type another number. Only shifts marked “present” count in the totals. ### My emails are not received. WordPress sends emails with the server’s mail function, which is often blocked or marked as spam. Use a sender address of your own domain in Volunteers Settings, and an SMTP plugin. ### Can I ask people for their availability without publishing the opportunity on my site? Yes. Choose “Availability” and tick “Private: only with the link” in the opportunity, publish it, then share the link. The opportunity does not appear in your lists, in the search or in search engines. ### Who can see the volunteers? Editors and administrators. The `legba_volunteer_capability` filter changes it. ## Reviews There are no reviews for this plugin. ## Contributors & Developers “Legba Volunteer” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ pierreht ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/pierreht/) [Translate “Legba Volunteer” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/legba-volunteer) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/legba-volunteer/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/legba-volunteer/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/legba-volunteer/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/legba-volunteer/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog #### 0.3.2 * Fix: page styles are now added with the WordPress style functions; HTML added by add-ons to the forms is cleaned before it is shown. #### 0.3.1 * The plugin is now published under the name Legba Father (https://getlegba.com). No functional change. #### 0.3.0 * New: hooks for add-ons (settings, forms, reminders, sign-ups screen). * Changed: invitations by email, availability grid, messages, certificates, shift generator, duplication, thank-you email and dashboard widget move to Legba Volunteer Pro, which also adds reminders by SMS and WhatsApp. #### 0.2.0 * New: “Availability” mode, private opportunities with a link, invitations by email, changing answers, availability grid and schedule. * New: volunteer application form with weekly availability, approval of applications, filter of volunteers by availability, profile update by the volunteer. * New: several shifts at once, duplicate an opportunity, move the dates, message to volunteers, certificate of hours, thank-you email, dashboard widget. #### 0.1.0 * First version. ## Meta * Version **0.3.2** * Last updated **1 day ago** * Active installations **Fewer than 10** * WordPress version ** 6.2 or higher ** * Tested up to **7.1.3** * PHP version ** 7.4 or higher ** * Tags * [hours](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/hours/)[nonprofit](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/nonprofit/) [shifts](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/shifts/)[volunteer](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/volunteer/) * [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/legba-volunteer/advanced/) ## Ratings No reviews have been submitted yet. 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