OrderBuster

Changelog

0.15.1

• Fixed: the Orders page’s reminder-stage strikethroughs were computed from elapsed calendar days on hold rather than the actual reminder-stage meta the send engine itself advances — for the window between a day threshold crossing and the next twice-daily cron tick, a stage could show as already sent when nothing had actually gone out yet. Now keyed off the real stage/auto-cancel state.
• Fixed: the admin menu icon was blank — a non-existent dashicon class name failed silently with no error anywhere. Corrected to the real WordPress life-ring glyph.

0.15.0

• Renamed to OrderBuster, at WP.org’s own direction after they reassigned this submission’s slug to “orderbuster”: display name, Text Domain, internal class/function/option/meta-key prefix (ORDRES_/ordres_ → ORDBUST_/ordbust_), file names, and the Plugin URI subpath (zoa.captelek.net/wpplugins/orderrescue → .../orderbuster) all updated to match. A one-time migration (runs automatically on an already-active install, not just on reactivation) carries over any settings and in-flight order data stored under the old option/meta-key names, so existing installs don’t lose configuration in the switch. Everything below this entry describes OrderRescue’s own history under its original name — left as originally written, not rewritten after the fact.

0.14.7

• Addressed the WP.org Plugins Team’s pre-review findings (automated + manual pass, Oct 26, 2026): removed the licensing/premium-gate mechanism (ORDRES_Licensing::is_premium(), the “Upgrade — coming soon” CTAs) — OrderRescue already shipped 100% free with no paid tier, this just removes the dead gate-shaped code the review correctly flagged; the sponsor line and its cross-promotion copy stay, just without any premium-unlock framing. Moved a hardcoded <style> echo (hiding one submenu item) to a properly enqueued/registered style. Hardened the Email Preview page’s “full store theme” render to escape its HTML via wp_kses_post() instead of a bare echo with a blanket escaping exception. Added a Requires Plugins: woocommerce header plus a runtime check: if WooCommerce isn’t active, OrderRescue now shows a plain admin notice instead of fataling.

0.14.6

• Fixed a real text-domain mismatch WP.org’s own submission scanner caught: the plugin’s Text Domain header and every translation call used order-rescue, but the slug WP.org actually assigned this submission is orderrescue (derived from the “OrderRescue” plugin name, which has no space/hyphen to split on). Renamed the Text Domain header and all 248 translation-domain arguments to orderrescue to match. The two internal admin-menu-slug constants that happened to share the old string (DASHBOARD_SLUG, the enqueue-assets page check) are unrelated to the WP.org plugin slug and were deliberately left unchanged. No functional change.

0.14.5

• Ran WordPress.org’s own “Plugin Check” scanner live against the plugin (static checks: general, plugin-repo, security, accessibility) and fixed everything it found: 39 additional missing translators: comments, 2 unordered placeholder strings (now positional, %1$s/%2$s), 5 outputs that were already escaped upstream but the scanner couldn’t trace (annotated, not re-escaped), a nonce value not unslashed before verification, and 2 intentional non-prefixed hook invocations (WooCommerce’s own woocommerce_email_header/_footer, used on purpose to reuse its email template) annotated so they read as intentional. The 3 “no nonce” findings on the public “I already paid” link are by design — that link has no WP session to carry a nonce; order_key is the verified auth token instead — now annotated accordingly. No functional change.

0.14.4

• Pre-submission WP.org-readiness pass, informed by the revision rounds Pipeline Buster went through on its own WP.org review: added missing // translators: comments on every multi-placeholder string (5 found), confirmed the plugin’s own prefix (ORDRES_/ordres_) has zero collision risk, confirmed no stray untracked files would ship, confirmed no .distignore is present (one briefly blocked PB’s own automated scan). No functional change.

0.14.3

• Declared explicit compatibility with WooCommerce’s High-Performance Order Storage (HPOS/custom order tables) feature. The plugin’s order queries and column rendering were already storage-agnostic (wc_get_orders(), WC_Order meta accessors, both legacy and HPOS column hooks), but never formally declared compatible — stores running HPOS would have shown OrderRescue as unverified under WooCommerce → Settings → Advanced → Features.
• Corrected the Plugin URI header, which had drifted to an old pipelinebuster.com path — now points to the actual ZOA subpath (zoa.captelek.net/wpplugins/orderrescue). That landing page itself is still pending (goes live once the plugin clears WP.org review), so the link won’t resolve yet.

0.14.2

• Reminder Timing row labels no longer bake in the currently-saved day value (“Day 4 reminder”) — now generic (“Reminder 1 (days)”, etc.) so they stay accurate the moment you type a new value, before saving.
• BabelTones: the Order Cancelled and Day-16 auto-cancel previews’ bold headline now genuinely differs between the Professional and Formal tones (was accidentally identical text).
• Email Preview: selecting a different BabelTone now updates the copy preview immediately, no Save required to see how it reads (still requires Save to persist the choice).
• Save Settings button on Email Preview moved below the copy-preview card instead of above it.
• Orders, Email Preview, and Settings now warn — both an on-page notice and the browser’s own native “leave page?” prompt — if you navigate away with unsaved changes on that page’s settings form.

0.14.1

• Reminder Timing polish: Auto-cancel and Discount to close now show the same locked/checked checkbox as the 4 reminder rows, for consistent alignment. Widened the label column so “Day 13 reminder — final notice” (and any other row) stays on one line instead of wrapping.

0.14.0

• Reminder Timing (Email Preview) gained a checkbox per reminder day, letting a merchant shorten the chain by skipping any of the 4 staged reminders. Auto-cancel has no checkbox — it’s not a reminder, it’s what OrderRescue actually does, and always fires last regardless of which reminders are on.
• Discount to close now shows as a read-only reflection on this page too (edit it on the Orders page, unchanged).
• Unchecked reminders keep their configured day (grayed out) rather than losing it, in case they’re re-enabled later.

0.13.1

• Email Preview’s “Order Cancelled” pill: unselected state changed from white/red-outline to OrderRescue’s dark navy fill (white text), preview-only ask, selected state unchanged.

0.13.0

• Cancelled orders (auto or via the “Cancel order” button) now stay visible in “Orders OrderRescue is watching” — capped at the 25 most recent, dimmed, tagged Cancelled (auto)/(by request) — instead of disappearing the moment they leave on-hold, so the View link stays reachable inside OrderRescue itself.
• Removed the “View in OrderRescue” link added last version to the native WooCommerce order screen — the Orders list fix above is the in-plugin way back instead, no need to route through WooCommerce’s own screen.

0.12.0

• “Cancel order” on Order Detail now sends its own plain cancellation email, distinct from auto-cancel’s non-payment-focused copy — a manual cancel may have nothing to do with payment.
• Email Preview gained a genuinely separate “Order Cancelled” pill for that manual-cancel copy, kept apart from the existing Day-16 pill (which still previews the real auto-cancel wording, unchanged).
• Added a “View in OrderRescue” link to the native WooCommerce order screen’s own OrderRescue box — a permanent way back into Order Detail for any order, any status, since the Orders list only ever shows on-hold orders.

0.11.1

• Order Detail now clearly marks a cancelled order (a “Cancelled” tag, plain-language notes on the Discount card and the OrderRescue settings snapshot) instead of the misleading “Not yet tracked” / “Nothing further scheduled” copy those cards fell back to once cancellation cleared the order’s tracking data.
• Discount to close picker on Order Detail now grays out and hides Save/Remove discount once an order is cancelled, matching the existing already-applied lock.
• Email Preview’s Cancelled pill is now visually set apart from the Day N reminder pills (its own color, right-aligned in the same row) instead of reading as a fifth equivalent stage.

0.11.0

• Added a “Cancel order” button on Order Detail, next to the order summary — a merchant no longer needs the native WooCommerce screen for this. Reuses OrderRescue’s own branded cancellation note (same one auto-cancel sends), so the customer always gets a proper notice either way.

0.10.2

• Copy Notifications intro line reworded for a first-time reader — leads with the action (“add your own address as CC or BCC”) instead of “no email address is built in.”

0.10.1

• Copy Notifications moved above Reminder Timing on Email Preview.
• Order Detail’s “OrderRescue settings for this order” card now strikes through a reminder’s “Day N” text once that reminder has actually gone out, not just the leading checkmark.

0.10.0

• Added a “Copy Notifications” card on Email Preview — CC/BCC fields (blank by default, no email baked in) so a merchant can get their own copy of the reminder/cancellation emails OrderRescue sends. Comma-separated, multiple addresses supported.

0.9.0

• Order Detail’s “OrderRescue settings for this order” card now shows the customer’s own discount-eligibility countdown (eligible now, or the exact date they’re eligible again) and the actual date/time the next reminder (or auto-cancel) is estimated to go out, based on the live twice-daily cron schedule.

0.8.0

• Order Detail’s discount override picker now locks once a discount has actually been applied to the order — previously it stayed clickable and appeared to work, but silently did nothing (the applied-discount guard runs before the override is ever read again).
• Added a “Remove discount” action on the Order Detail page — reverses an applied discount (removes the fee line item, re-totals the order, clears the applied flag, and reopens the customer’s eligibility window) entirely from OrderRescue’s own interface, no need to touch WooCommerce’s native order screen.
• Discount fee line items are now tagged with their own meta key so removal can find them reliably.

0.7.0

• Fixed: the Order Detail “View” link could 403 with “Sorry, you are not allowed to access this page” — caused by hiding the page via remove_submenu_page(), which strips WordPress’s own capability lookup for it. Switched to CSS-only hiding.
• Order Detail page: added a “Back to Orders” link, a Domestic/International shipping note, and a read-only “OrderRescue settings for this order” card (reminder timing, discount-to-close rule, payment method, BabelTone voice) — flagged as reflecting live global settings, not a per-order snapshot.

0.6.0

• Reminder template packs (“BabelTones”): four tone presets (Friendly, Professional, Direct, Formal) selectable per store, applied to both reminder and cancellation copy.
• Settings reorganized so each setting lives on the page that uses it — Reminder Timing + tone picker on Email Preview, Order Value Range + Discount to Close on Orders, Settings itself down to ON/OFF + Payment Methods.

0.5.0

• Configurable reminder day-ranges and auto-cancel threshold, with quick-preset buttons.
• Discount-override visibility inside OrderRescue’s own Orders list and Order Detail pages, alongside the existing native WooCommerce control.

0.4.0

• Full store-themed customer email preview, rendered through WooCommerce’s own email header/footer/styling.

0.3.0

• Real branded cancellation email, replacing the placeholder shown in earlier previews.
• Experimental cross-promotion cards on the Orders and Email Preview admin pages.

0.2.0

• Added dedicated Orders and Email Preview admin pages alongside Dashboard and Settings.
• Payment methods grouped into collapsible sections; feedback link added to Settings.

0.1.0

• Initial internal build — staged reminders, auto-cancel, discount-to-close, self-service paid link, orders-list column, per-order override.