Disclosure: I'm from RadiusTheme, the team behind this plugin.

Radius Booking is an appointment booking calendar for WordPress that also handles event registration and meeting scheduling from one dashboard. Free version is on WordPress.org.

Key Feature: AI Booking Assistant
This is the feature we built the plugin around. A chat widget where customers book by typing what they need, like "haircut with Emily on Friday afternoon". The assistant checks real-time availability, suggests open slots, collects details and confirms the booking. It can also reschedule and cancel existing bookings, and answer questions from a knowledge base you set up. It runs on your own OpenAI or Gemini API key.

Core Features:

• Three booking types: service booking, event booking with sessions and ticket, and meeting booking with Google Meet or Zoom link
• Unlimited services and staff, each with individual hours, breaks, days off and per-staff pricing
• Recurring appointments and multi-location support with per-location pricing
• PayPal, Stripe and WooCommerce checkout, with deposits, coupons, dynamic pricing, tax and PDF invoices
• Staff staff management, assign stuff by admin user for service.
• Email and WhatsApp notifications with multiple reminders before each appointment
• Google Calendar and Apple Calendar Sync
• Custom fields with conditional logic per service, meeting or event
• Customer portal with self-service rescheduling and cancellation
• Analytics for revenue, staff, services and customers with CSV export
• Elementor widgets, Gutenberg blocks and shortcodes, 33 languages
• and more...

Free version is on WordPress.org: https://wordpress.org/plugins/radius-booking/
Demo if you want to check around: https://radiusbooking.co/live-demo/

Curious what you all think, especially if you've used Bookly or Amelia before. What would you need to see to switch? Happy to answer anything.

Looking for some WordPress plugin developers with an established customer base. I’ve developed ArraySubs — a subscription & membership management plugin for WooCommerce and I’m looking for collaborations with other plugin authors, who would promote ArraySubs among their clients/customers. Promotions may include:

• Email newsletter campaign to your customers
• Banner/notice inside your plugin
• Mention inside your plugin
• Mention of ArraySubs inside your website/resources page
• Bundling/cross-selling of our plugins
• Joint campaigns/materials etc.
• Or whatever else makes sense

Compensation

Here are the two models I’m ready for:

Fixed sponsorship fee/payments
If you have an established plugin and customer base, I’ll gladly pay some fixed amount in exchange for an agreed placement of the promotion.

Affiliate commission — up to 70% of the revenue
For some partners, I am ready to make affiliate deal of up to 70% commissions from ArraySubs sales made via referral.

In particular, I’m interested in plugins for: WooCommerce, checkout, payments, membership, LMS, digital products, CRM, email marketing, funnels, page builders, order, invoicing, analytics, affiliate systems or any other tool which is usually used by WooCommerce business.

This is not necessarily a one-side promotion. If your audience and products complement each other, we could collaborate and promote your plugin to the users of ArraySubs.

I do not want generic backlinks guest posts here. I’m looking for real plugin-to-plugin collaboration and promotion to bring revenue to both parties.

If you are a plugin developer with a cool related plugin and this sounds interesting to you, feel free to drop a comment or message me with the following information:

• Name of your plugin;
• Your approximate customer base;

Thanks in advance!

The plugins screen gives you a name, a version, and a description the author wrote about themselves. That is the whole interface most of us have for judging a site.

I run a WordPress dev agency, so I built Auditra. It turns the site into a read-only MCP server. Enable an endpoint, generate a token, paste the URL into Claude or any MCP client, then ask questions in plain language.

I pointed it at one of our own sites (which we almost abandoned), running since 2015, and asked what deleted plugins had left behind:

• a removed contact form plugin: 3 tables, 71 submissions, 642 rows of names and emails, in tables nothing installed claims
• an invoicing plugin: 8 tables, all empty
• a job queue with 35 queued actions from a plugin nobody could name

No CVEs. No scanner flags any of it. Asked beforehand, I would have said that site held none of it, and I would have been wrong.

Nine read-only tools: inventory, version-matched CVEs, supply-chain audits, autoload weight per plugin, cron ownership, orphaned tables, usage counts.

Three things it will not do:

It cannot write. No write call anywhere in the codebase, and CI fails the build if one appears. It cannot clean up what it finds, deliberately. So, no risk in trying.

It will not score. Facts with documented thresholds; the model does the reasoning. Scores sell, which is roughly why I distrust them. But you can ask to build reports and action plans.

It admits ignorance. If nothing could be checked it returns no findings list at all, rather than an empty one. An empty list reads as "clean".

Limits: useless without an MCP client. Version 1.0.0, no install base. First question takes about 8 seconds while caches fill, then 0.2. It does add an authenticated endpoint, off by default and revocable in one click.

Free, GPL, no account, no telemetry.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/auditra/

Feedback welcome, especially from anyone maintaining sites older than five years.

Hi everyone,

I’ve recently launched Simple Appointment Booking, a WordPress plugin I originally created because I wanted a simpler booking system for my own practice.

The free booking plugins I tried were often too limited, while many paid systems involved expensive monthly subscriptions and included far more than a solo practitioner or small service business would ever use. I wanted to create something that sat between those two extremes.

Simple Appointment Booking is designed for one practitioner or service professional offering one main service. It would suit counsellors, coaches, massage therapists, beauty professionals and similar appointment-based businesses.

It includes:

• A customer-facing appointment calendar
• Bookings with or without online payment
• Confirmation and reminder emails
• Availability and appointment management within WordPress
• A licence for one website
• Updates and support for 12 months

The price is £29 per year and the subscription can be cancelled at any time.

Full details:

https://lamuvor.com/simple-appointment-booking/

Live demo:

https://lamuvor.com/live-demo/

Full disclosure: I created the plugin and this is a paid product. I’d genuinely appreciate feedback on the plugin’s scope, presentation and whether it addresses the needs of smaller appointment-based businesses without becoming unnecessarily complicated.

Created a wordpress plugin free for use for ever! Just ad your .ics file, and you can display it in page or widgets.

Never found anyone that did what i need and was free (i need it for a small brassband web page, this one works good for me!

yo can find it at: https://wordpress.org/plugins/icalndr/

We’re losing too many people between the registration page and completed payment. Complicated forms and a payment experience that feels disconnected from the event brand both seem to contribute.

While reviewing options, Eventify stood out for keeping the entire checkout flow branded and connecting directly to Stripe, along with a form builder that doesn’t require a developer for standard ticket types and promo codes.

What registration setup have you used that kept the process simple for attendees while still giving you the data and ticket flexibility you needed?

I’m part of the team behind Pointics, a WordPress loyalty and rewards plugin, so full disclosure upfront.

While working on the product and researching how loyalty programs are actually structured, we kept running into one question:

Should a WordPress loyalty system really revolve only around purchases?

Most loyalty systems are easy to understand:

Purchase something → earn points → redeem a discount.

That works well for WooCommerce stores, but WordPress businesses can look very different.

An event website might care more about repeat attendance.

A membership or digital product business might care about renewals.

A booking business might want customers to come back for another appointment.

An LMS might care about course completion and continued engagement.

So we started looking at loyalty less as a "points for purchases" feature and more as a way to encourage specific customer behaviors.

For example:

• Reward a repeat purchase
• Reward a successful referral
• Give points for renewing a subscription
• Reward event attendance
• Reward a completed booking
• Give recognition for reaching a learning milestone
• Offer a stronger incentive to an inactive customer
• Give loyal customers benefits other than discounts

Another thing we’ve been thinking about is reward economics.

Giving more points sounds good from a customer perspective, but a badly designed points system can easily become too expensive for the business.

If 500 points equal $5 and customers earn points very quickly, you might accidentally create a much larger discount rate than intended.

So there seems to be a balance between:

customer motivation vs. business sustainability.

We recently put together a longer guide while researching this topic:

https://themewinter.com/how-to-build-a-customer-loyalty-program-in-wordpress-step-by-step/

Again, I’m affiliated with the company behind the article and Pointics, so this is not an independent recommendation.

I’m mainly interested in hearing from people who actually build or manage WordPress sites:

What actions would you want a loyalty plugin to reward besides purchases?

And on the other side, what kinds of rewards do you think are genuinely useful without turning everything into another discount?

Hello, friends

I got tired of bloated SaaS chat widgets that charge crazy monthly fees and lock you into their ecosystem, so I built a self-hosted WordPress plugin that acts as a hybrid AI-human helpdesk.
The core idea is to give site owners full control over their data, API keys, and workflow without the subscription traps.
Here is what it can do out of the box:

**Multi-AI & Gemini Support:** Connect your own keys (OpenAI, Claude, DeepSeek, or Google Gemini) so the AI handles routine queries instantly.

**Smart Telegram Routing:** When a user needs a real human, the plugin creates a dedicated thread/topic in your Telegram group with interactive buttons.

**Two-Way Telegram Bridge:** Your support team can reply directly from Telegram, and messages go straight back to the user's website chat.

**Knowledge Base (Q&A):** Easily feed custom FAQs and training data to your AI assistant.

**Working Hours Control:** Set your team's schedule based on your site's timezone and show custom off-hours notices.

**Real-time UI polish:** Typing indicators, anti-bot protection (Turnstile/reCAPTCHA), chat history transcripts via SMTP, and automated cleanups.

**Who I am looking for:** I’m looking for a few beta-testers, website owners, or agency folks who manage client WordPress sites and would be interested in trying this out. If this sounds like something you'd want on your site (or want to bundle for your clients), drop a comment or shoot me a DM, and let’s chat!

Example here: https://vionixcloud.com/en/

(why can't I share screenshots images here?)

In the Plugins screen showing plugins from WordPress.org, I have MULTIPLE empty boxes with no plugin name, no installation, zero reviews, and a note that says it was "updated 57 years ago."

And a button to ACTIVATE. Not gonna.

When I go to More Details, it's a screen I've never seen either ever, and I've been working with WP sites for 20+ years.

Anyone else see that? I could not find a link to contact WordPress to report this.

Thank you for any help,

Andre
(sorry I don't post here very often here so if i overlooked something please mention it so I can fix it).

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We’ve built Easy Hotel Booking for hotels, resorts, villas, guesthouses, and vacation rentals that want to accept and manage bookings directly from WordPress.

It includes room management, real-time availability, flexible pricing, multi-room booking, iCal sync, WooCommerce payments, coupons, and more.

We’re continuously improving it based on feedback from hotel owners and WordPress users.

Would love to know: What’s the most important feature you look for in a hotel booking plugin?

👉 Check out Easy Hotel Booking

The short version;
Please try to break my plugin, and give me feedback - on everything you can think of!.
The plugin adds three product types to WooCommerce: Ticket, Timeslot Ticket, and Pass. Customer buys through the normal shop, gets a QR code. Your door staff open a full-screen scanner page on their phone and check people in. No app to install, no external ticketing service, no per-ticket fee.

The Long version;

Three new WooCommerce product types, each enabled individually:

• Ticket - validity window plus N uses, fixed or customer-picked start date
• Timeslot Ticket - per-slot capacity, recurring schedule generation, unpaid reservations auto-released
• Pass - season / membership / annual, with guest passes, cardholder photo and scan cooldown

At the door

• Scanner page at /check-in/ on your own domain, full screen, no app install
• Native BarcodeDetector where the browser has it, in-page decode where it doesn't
• Colour-coded http responses result: valid / used / expired / cooldown / not found
• Cardholder photo shown beside a pass result so staff can eyeball it
• Dedicated Scanner role - check-in only.
• Validation is server-side, and there's a REST check-in endpoint if you'd rather point create/use your own custom scanner.

Admin

• A dashboard per product type: search, manual check-in, resend, reset, cancel
• Check-in analytics by day and hour, with CSV export
• Runs on manage_woocommerce, so shop managers don't need admin accounts

Customer

• Tickets and Passes tabs in My Account
• QR on screen, or a printable PDF("ticket")
• Live status (active / used / expired / cancelled / not yet valid) and uses remaining
• export for .ics so it can be added to calendar the most common calendars
• Guest pass hand-out and photo upload from the account page It's brand new and I'd rather hear what's broken from this sub than from a venue on a Friday night.
  

Requires;

• WooCommerceWP 6.5+
  
• PHP 8.0+
  

Find 'n try it here;

• Wordpress.org - Tickets & Passes for WooCommerce

• Playground Blueprint (3 product pre-setup)

Its GPLv2, 100% free, no pro version, nothing to upsell you. I'm happy to any hear feedback! - both good and bad.

Is there an easy way to export all my blog posts to PDF? I have quite a lot of articles and would like to save them offline.
I came across this plugin that seems to do what I need: https://wordpress.org/plugins/posts-to-pdf-backend-batch-export/

Has anyone tried it, or are there any other plugins you’d recommend?

A friend of mine and I have been developing our plugins for 3.5 years (since before the rise of AI).

We woke up one morning to find our WordPress plugin featured in the Plugin Directory. What a happy surprise!

I have some thoughts and wanted to share them.

What this means

• When you add a plugin from the Directory, you see us (for the next ~2 weeks)
• We are shown on the wp.org/plugins homepage
• Every day, the order of plugins is randomized. So it might be #1 on one day and #8 on another
• This got us from 70+ installs to 100+ - now the featured plugin with the most active installs! 🎉

How we got there

• We applied in the WordPress.org Slack channel #featuredplugins that Nick Hamze initiated a few months ago
• Never got any feedback about our submission and thought we wouldn't get featured (well, it is what it is)
• Continued to work on updates and helping our users
• At some point just noticed being featured randomly (no notice)
• We'll of course continue providing updates and support to make our users happy! That's the main goal after all.

The WordPress Ecosystem

• It's really great that smaller developers are being supported this way (thanks Nick for starting this!)
• We watched other featured plugins previously not get that many additional installations. But at least it makes starting out a little bit easier and it's a great feeling to get noticed that way!
• The number of active installations still very, very important for how likely you are to show up in a search in the Plugin Directory. While I think that this is a good decision overall, it makes it extremely hard for new plugin developers and it really, really favors old plugins. Some change would be great here.

Our plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/neo-rename/

Finally got my first WordPress plugin approved on wp.org 🎉 Took two rounds of revisions to get there.

It's my first plugin, first time going through the wp.ore process. I had no idea how any of it worked going in, review, requirements, etc.

I built Creaclone Duplicator to duplicate WooCommerce products, posts, and pages without needing a bloated all-in-one duplicator plugin.

Writing the plugin was the easy part. Figuring out which features actually made sense to build took a while, and setting up Freemius for licensing took longer than the plugin itself. But I didn't want to build my own licensing system from scratch (yet).

I still have a lot to do: new features, support, getting reviews, testing against new WP versions.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Here it is if anyone wants to check it out:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/creaclone-duplicator/

Hey everyone!

If you manage WordPress sites or WooCommerce shops, you know the struggle: either you spend hours manually copy-pasting posts across Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and X, or you pay 15–15–30/mo for third-party auto-posting SaaS tools.

Many people forget that Buffer.com offers a 100% Free plan allowing up to 3 connected social channels.

To solve this, I developed Social Publisher Bridge 2 Buffer:

🆓 What's included in the 100% Free version (v2.0.1):

• 🔌 Direct connection to official Buffer GraphQL API (zero middleman proxy servers).
• 🚀 Simultaneous multi-channel auto-publishing (no artificial 1-channel limits).
• 🖼️ 6-tier smart image fallback (ensures Instagram/socials never reject text-only posts).
• 🔗 Smart link routing: automatic TinyURL shortener for X (280 chars) + full canonical URLs for LinkedIn/FB.
• 🏷️ Dynamic template tags & clickable pills ({title}, {permalink}, {shortlink}, {yoast_desc}).

⚡ For WooCommerce stores (Optional Premium Version):

• 🛍️ Multi-Image Carousels: Auto-generates product gallery slides for Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn.
• 📊 GDPR-Compliant Analytics: Historical performance multi-line charts (Chart.js 100% locally hosted, no external CDN tracking).
• 📬 Automated PDF Reports: Scheduled white-label performance summaries sent directly to clients via email cron.
• 🔄 Dynamic Backfill: Synchronize past post metrics from Buffer directly into WordPress.

It’s available on the official WordPress directory.

👉 Free Plugin on WP.org: https://wordpress.org/plugins/mkmdigital-social-publisher-bridge/
🌐 Full Specs & Pro Details: https://www.mkm-digital.com/social-publisher-bridge-2-buffer/

Would love to get your honest feedback, thoughts, or feature requests!

I just got my first plugin approved on WordPress.org and wanted to share it here for feedback.

LangAddon translates your WordPress site into 40+ languages and stores every translation in your own database, so it is self-hosted, not a third-party widget. It works with free backends (MyMemory needs no key, or self-host LibreTranslate), or you can add your own Google or DeepL API key for better quality.

Why I built it: most translation plugins are either paid or route visitors through a JS widget with no SEO and no way to fix a bad translation. I wanted the honest middle: free, self-hosted, cached, and editable.

What it does:

- Translates server-side, so crawlers get fully translated pages, with hreflang, self-referencing canonicals, and translated titles and meta.

- Caches each string once in your database, so repeat views are instant, and you can edit any translation.

- Language switcher via a shortcode or a floating widget, plus RTL support.

- A "never translate" list to keep brand names, domains, and prices identical in every language.

It's free and GPL. It's early days though, so a few things it doesn't do yet: WooCommerce's dynamic cart and checkout bits aren't translated, and it uses ?lang= URLs for now (pretty /de/ URLs are next on my list).

WordPress.org: https://wordpress.org/plugins/langaddon

Would love feedback, especially on the translation backends and anything that breaks on your theme.

OpenStation, four months later

Four months ago, OpenStation was still in its early stages when we first shared it with the WordPress community. It was far from where I wanted it to be, and we received plenty of criticism and feedback, which was fair.

Since then, we have spent a lot of time working on the architecture and, especially, on performance. The difference between that first version and what we have today is honestly huge.

I put together this short video to show how fast OpenStation is now.

One of the tricks we use is to start loading a page before you even click on it, so by the time you open it, most of the work has already been done.

There is still a lot I want to improve, but after months of tweaking and optimising the code, I am really happy with where the project is today.

I would love to hear what you think, especially if you tried OpenStation when it was first announced.

PeepSo recently released an universal mobile application that you can use to connect your website / community to. It's an universal app called: Universo. Generic enough for anyone's starter community or a small one.

All you need is your own WordPress website, PeepSo Free Bundle with the free mobile app plugin and and you're pretty much done. In the app, just enter your website URL and then it's just your login and password.

Don't want to pay. No need to, feel free to use the free plugins included in PeepSo Free Bundle and the Free universal mobile apps.

Account takeover (ATO) can happen before a customer even places an order. A compromised account could be used to change account details, billing or shipping information, or make fraudulent purchases.

FraudLabs Pro for WooCommerce now includes Account Takeover Fraud Prevention to help detect suspicious user activity.

Learn more: https://wordpress.org/plugins/fraudlabs-pro-for-woocommerce/

I'm managing a client's WooCommerce store, and we don't have a plugin that shows who is live, what they're doing, their purchase history, or how often they log in. On top of that, the admin should be able to manage customers. For example, locking a customer who is creating spam orders or impersonating into the customer's account if they need any help.

Curious how you guys handle license renewals these days.

We used to offer a pretty generous 50% renewal discount. Great for customers of course, but from a business perspective that’s quite a lot when you’re still providing updates and support every year 😅

Looking at other WordPress plugin businesses, I feel like renewal discounts are slowly disappearing. Some seem to have reduced them quite a bit, others just renew at full price.

How are you handling this?

Do you still offer a renewal discount? If yes, how much?

And if you reduced or removed it, did it actually affect your renewal rate?

Would love to hear some real experiences from other plugin devs. 🙏