Opis
SlashBooking turns any WordPress page into a self-service appointment funnel. A visitor picks a service, sees the available slots in real time, and books in under a minute. You receive an email alert and confirm or decline in one click — no need to log in to WordPress, no third-party SaaS, no recurring fees.
It is a self-hosted scheduling tool: your data stays in your WordPress database.
Main features
- Public booking form via shortcode — A single
[slashbooking]in any page. Multiple services, date picker, real-time slots, customer form, fully responsive. - One-click email confirmation — Every request arrives with two buttons, Confirm and Decline. No WordPress login required. The action links are signed with HMAC-SHA256 and cannot be forged.
- Smart buffers around appointments — Configure padding (travel, prep) between appointments. Applied automatically.
- Multi-slot opening hours — Monday 9–12 + 14–18, Tuesday morning only, Wednesday off… Each day and each service is configured independently.
- Transactional emails with .ics — Confirmation, decline and acknowledgement emails, each with an automatic
.icsattachment so the customer adds the appointment to their calendar in one click. - Built-in GDPR compliance — Explicit consent before submission, WP_Privacy exporters/erasers, configurable retention, automatic anonymisation.
- Built-in anti-spam — Honeypot and per-IP rate limiting, with no third-party service and no external request.
Who it is for
- Freelancers and small businesses who want a self-hosted scheduling page
- Agencies packaging a website with a booking funnel
- Any business where “book a slot” opens the customer journey
External services
This plugin is fully self-contained. It makes no calls to any external or third-party service and sends no data off your site — every request is handled on your own WordPress installation.
Source code and build
The full, human-readable source code is public and maintained at:
https://github.com/ArchSeraphin/slashbooking-lite
The PHP runs unmodified from src/. The admin interface bundle
(assets/dist/index.jsx.js and .css) is compiled from the React/SCSS sources
in src/Admin/react-app/src/, which ship inside the plugin ZIP as well.
To regenerate the compiled admin assets:
npm install
npm run build (uses @wordpress/scripts — webpack/Babel; outputs to assets/dist/)
The Composer autoloader in vendor/ is generated with composer install --no-dev.
Instalacija
- Upload the ZIP via Plugins Add New Upload Plugin (or unzip it into
wp-content/plugins/). - Activate SlashBooking in the plugins list.
- Configure it from the SlashBooking admin menu:
- Services — appointment duration, before/after buffers, days and opening hours, display colour
- Settings — booking form colours, consent message, GDPR retention, notification email
- Paste
[slashbooking]into any public page to display the booking form.
ČPP
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How do emails get sent?
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By default via
wp_mail(). If you have an SMTP plugin installed (WP Mail SMTP, FluentSMTP, etc.), SlashBooking uses it automatically — no extra configuration. -
Is a customer account required to book?
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No. Visitors book without creating an account. You collect only the fields you need (name, email, phone, etc.).
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Is it GDPR compliant?
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Yes. The form requires explicit consent, the plugin registers WordPress privacy data exporters and erasers, supports a configurable retention period, and anonymises old bookings automatically.
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Does it work with page caching plugins?
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Yes. The page that contains the widget is automatically excluded from page caching so the form keeps working.
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Does it survive a WordPress update?
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Yes. Database schemas are versioned and migrated automatically, and options are preserved.
Recenzije
Nema recenzija za ovaj dodatak.
Suradnici i Programeri
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Suradnici
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Dnevnik promjena
1.0.5
- Internationalization. The plugin’s source strings are now in English (
en_US) — the standard base locale for WordPress.org — and a complete French (fr_FR) translation ships with the plugin, covering the admin, the transactional emails, the public booking form and the settings app. The plugin can now be translated into any language via translate.wordpress.org. - Updated the bundled plugin logo to the current SlashBooking calendar mark.
1.0.4
- Removed the optional Cloudflare Turnstile integration from the free edition. The plugin now makes no external requests and connects to no third-party service — it is fully self-contained. The built-in honeypot and per-IP rate limiting continue to protect the booking form.
1.0.3
- Hardened the code against the full WordPress.org Plugin Check ruleset: documented the trusted, prepared database queries in the data-access layer; annotated internal exception messages (caught/converted, never displayed); renamed the internal action hooks to an underscore prefix (
slashbooking_booking_*); prefixed the loader variable in the main file; and documented the standard cache constant/hook and the opt-in Cloudflare Turnstile widget script (the one permitted external service).
1.0.2
- Renamed all plugin option names, the custom cron schedule and the rate-limit transient keys from the short
sb_prefix to the uniqueslashbooking_prefix, to prevent collisions with other plugins or themes. - Replaced the example logo-URL placeholder in the email settings (it was an
https://…/logo.pngstring that a code scan could mistake for a remotely loaded file) with a plain text hint. The plugin never loaded that URL; it was only placeholder text inside a URL input the admin fills in.
1.0.1
- Public booking widget and dashboard widget styles are now enqueued (no inline
<style>). - The
.icscalendar attachment is written to a hardened uploads subfolder instead of the system temp directory, and removed right after sending. - Shortcode output uses
esc_url()for the REST URL attribute. - Admin menu moved to a lower position so it no longer sits among core items.
- Removed the redundant
load_plugin_textdomain()call (translations load automatically on WordPress.org). - Documented the public source repository and admin-bundle build steps; the React/SCSS sources now ship in the plugin.
1.0.0
First public release: shortcode booking form with real-time availability, one-click signed email confirmation (Confirm/Decline), .ics attachments, per-service opening hours and buffers, GDPR exporters/erasers and retention, honeypot + rate limiting, and optional Cloudflare Turnstile.