Sign-up Sheets

Sign-up Sheets helps you organize sign-ups, events, shifts, and other scheduled tasks directly in WordPress. It offers a flexible way to coordinate people, time slots, and responsibilities without relying on a third-party service.

The free version of Sign-up Sheets includes core tools for building and managing sign-up sheets on your site:

• Add, edit, and clear sign-up spots as needed
• Copy a sheet or task to speed up setup
• Send confirmation emails after sign-up
• Let logged-in users view all of their sign-ups on one page with the [user_sign_ups] shortcode
• Create an unlimited number of sign-up sheets and spots
• Enable optional reCAPTCHA protection
• Export sign-up data for one sheet or all sheets to CSV
• Support WordPress GDPR privacy features for your sign-up sheets
• Built with accessibility in mind based on WCAG Guidelines. If you run into any accessibility issues, please report them to help make the plugin more inclusive for all users.
• See the full list of Sign-up Sheets features

The Pro version of Sign-up Sheets adds advanced tools for more complex scheduling and form needs:

• Create custom task fields and custom sign-up form fields
• Send optional reminder emails before an event
• Customize confirmation and reminder emails per sheet
• Assign categories to sign-up sheets and display current sheets for a specific category
• Let logged-in users edit their own sign-ups
• Enable Spot Locking to hold a spot for 3 minutes while a user completes the sign-up form
• Use Compact and Semi-Compact display modes to condense tasks with many spots into a single line
• Set sign-up limits per task
• See the full list of Sign-up Sheets features

Sign-up Sheets is used for church and nonprofit volunteer opportunities, school and PTO/PTA events, club sign-ups, meeting room reservations, photographer time slots, peronal gatherings, and more. It is a practical alternative to monthly paid services like SignUpGenius while keeping your sign-ups on your own WordPress site.

1. Download the plugin
2. From your WordPress Admin panel, click the Plugins Menu
3. Deactivate and delete any previous versions of Sign-up Sheets including the free version.
4. Within the Plugins menu, click the “Add New” button
5. Click the “Upload Plugin” button from the menu at the top
6. Select the Sign-up Sheets zip file you downloaded and click the “Install Now” button
7. After installation is complete, click “Activate Plugin”

Manual Install – SFTP
1. Download the plugin and extract the files
2. Copy the sign-up-sheets directory and all its files to your /wp-content/plugins/ directory
3. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
4. Create a new blank page and add the [sign_up_sheet] shortcode (optional)

1. 

   Frontend Sign-up Sheets Listing

2. 

   Frontend Individual Sign-up Sheet

3. 

   Frontend Sign-up Form

4. 

   Admin Sign-up Sheets Listing

5. 

   Admin Edit Sign-up Sheet Form

6. 

   Admin Manage Sheet Screen with ability to add, edit and clear sign-ups

7. 

   Admin Edit Sign-up Form

2.4.0 | 2026-09-16

• Added preview to the Gutenberg block with settings moved to the editor sidebar.
• Updated Gutenberg block to use block API version 3 (requires WordPress 6.0+).
• Updated Settings page to a redesigned layout with sidebar navigation and live search.
• Updated the default simple captcha to use a randomized answer instead of a fixed one.
• Added ability for sheet “Preview” to show preview of meta field values such as sheet date and tasks rather than just the sheet description WP offers natively.
• Added config to disable the default sheet “archive” page that lists all sheets the /sheet/ URL.
• Added setting to hide your theme’s default Previous/Next post navigation on sheet pages if theme implements it (hidden by default).
• Fixed an inverted honeypot anti-spam check that could allow spam submissions through.
• Fixed error when accessing Manage Sign-ups page with invalid post ID by adding validation check.
• Fixed cursor jumping to the end of task fields when clicking to edit them in the admin sheet editor.
• Fixed the confirmation email message field stripping the “<{removal_link}>” placeholder (and any other literal “<…>” text) on every settings save.
• Hardened nonce verification, capability checks, input sanitization, and output escaping across Settings, bulk edit, sheet preview, custom fields, and the Gutenberg block. [Security]
• Hardened an internal file-loading safeguard. [Security]
• Hardened access control for displaying full sign-up contact details on the front end. [Security]
• Hardened access control on sheet task save and the Manage Sign-ups deletion actions (single and bulk). [Security]
• Hardened debug logging to prevent unauthorized data exposure. [Security]
• Hardened access control on the Manage Sign-ups page and CSV export, and narrowed the Sign-up Sheet Viewer role to read-only capabilities. [Security]
• Hardened database migration state checks and re-run access control. [Security]
• Hardened signup meta field handling against tampering from submitted form data. [Security]
• Hardened role capability revocation on deactivation so previously granted capabilities, including Pro sheet-category taxonomy permissions, are fully removed. [Security]
• Hardened the Help page email test form with nonce verification, input sanitization, and output escaping. [Security]
• Hardened the public sign-up form against unpublished tasks and unauthorized field submissions. [Security]
• Hardened access control on the sign-up form and sheet shortcodes to enforce sheet visibility. [Security]
• Hardened output escaping for custom field metadata in the admin sheet editor. [Security]
• Hardened task capacity enforcement on the sign-up form submission handler. [Security]
• Hardened access control so individual tasks and sign-ups respect their parent sheet’s visibility. [Security]
• Hardened output escaping in the notice display system and signup form response template tag. [Security]
• Hardened reCAPTCHA verification against spoofing and bypass attempts. [Security]
• Hardened validation of the redirect destination after a successful sign-up. [Security]
• Hardened validation on the admin Edit Sign-up page. [Security]
• Fixed a PHP warning on the admin Add Sign-up page when neither a sign-up nor task parameter is present.

2.3.4 | 2026-03-14

• Added security checks to AJAX migration status endpoint.
• Fixed output escaping of admin notice CSS class names.
• Removed duplicate function definition fdsus_scode_user_sign_ups_actions().

For the changelog of earlier versions, please see changelog.txt.