Weight Tracker Plugin

Demo

Use our free site for tracking your weight which shows off some of the plugin’s feature: https://demo.yeken.uk – Demo Site

Documentation

Weight Tracker Website

Core Features

An easy to use plugin that allows your users to track their weight, body measurements, photos and any custom fields you define. Their entries can be seen in various ways, charts, tables, shortcodes and widgets. The user is able to set targets and modify their entries.

The admin area features a rich user interface to allow site owners and personal trainers interact with their user base and help them achieve their goals.

Support for US/UK date formats as well as Imperial and Metric measurements.

For further information read our documentation:

Weight Tracker – Documentation

Pro Plus Version

• All of the features that come with a standard Pro license.
• Kiosk mode. [wt-kiosk] shortcode for allowing your administrators and staff to search and edit a user’s record on the front end of the website.
• Barcode scanner. Beta. Barcode scanner for scanning user IDs when using [wt-kiosk].
• Harris Benedict formula. Shortcodes and extended admin screens to a view a person’s calorie intake required to maintain and lose weight. For further information on Harris Benedict Formula and how it is calculated visit our calculations page.
• Recommended calorie intake per meal time. Shortcodes and extended admin screens to recommend how a person should split their daily calorie intake across meals. For further information on how this is calculated please visit our calculations page.
• Macronutrients Calculator. Shortcodes and extended admin screens to recommend how their calorie consumption should be split into fats, carbohydrates and proteins. For further information on the Macronutrients Calculator and how these calculations are performed please visit our calculations page.
• Additional user preference fields. Additional user preference fields and shortcodes to display them: Activity Level, Date of Birth and Gender.
• Awards. Awards and Badges! Set awards for: BMI Change, BMI Equals, Weight Gain / Loss from start and Percentage of weight lost from start.
• BMI Calculator. A shortcode to display a BMI calculator [wt-bmi-calculator].
• Waist-to-Hip ratio Calculator. A shortcode to display a BMI calculator [wt-waist-to-hip-ratio-calculator].

Read more about features

Pro Version

• Webhooks, Zapier & Slack. Push weight entry data and targets to Slack channels, Zapier or your own custom Webhooks!
• Support for Gravity Forms. Scan Gravity Form submissions for relevant Weight / Measurement fields and create a weight entry automatically. Read more
• Admin can view, edit and delete user data. Various tools for viewing user’s graphs, tables of entries, BMI, targets, weight lost / gained stats and much more.
• CSV and JSON exports for all data or a particular user.
• Custom Fields. Define and ask your user’s custom questions on weight entry forms. Add numeric fields (for things like measurements), yes/no and text fields.
• Photo Custom Fields. Add one or more photo fields to your weight entry forms and allow your users to upload photos of their progress. Photos can be viewed, updated and removed by the end user and administrators. Handy shortcodes are provided for displaying galleries, most recent and oldest photo.
• Groups. Define user groups and assign your user’s to them. View Weight Difference statistics for the group as a whole.
• Admin notes. Administrators have the ability to store notes against their users. If set to visible, the user can view these via [wt-notes] or receive emails with their content.
• BMI. Allows a user to specify their height. Once specified, their BMI is displayed next to each weight entry. There is also a shortcode to render the latest BMI.
• Email notifications. Receive email notifications when a person updates their target or adds / edits a weight.
• Birthday Emails. Automatically send your user’s a birthday email (when they have entered a date of birth).
• Overall user stats. Shortcodes that allow you to display the total lost / gained for the community and another to display a league table.
• Widgets. Widgets that allow you to display the graph and quick weight entry form within any widget area.
• Chart and form Shortcodes. That allow you to display the graph and quick weight entry form by placing a shortcode on any post or page.
• Progress Bar shortcode. A shortcode that visually displays the logged in user\’s progress towards their target
• Reminder shortcode. A shortcode that can be used to remind the user to enter their target or weight for today.
• Message shortcode A shortcode that allows you to congratulate a user when they lose weight x number of times. It also provides the opposite allowing you to provide encouragement when someone gains weight.
• Text Shortcodes. Additional shortcodes for earliest and most recent dates entered.
• Progress Bar shortcode / widget. Display a user\’s progress towards their weight target.
• Reminder shortcode. Display a reminder to enter their weight for the given day or enter a target.
• User preferences. If enabled, the user will be able to select which unit they wish to store their weight in Metric or Imperial. They will also be able to specify date format and clear all their weight data.
• Bar Charts. Fancy something different to a line chart? The plugin will also support Bar Charts.
• Delete existing entry. A logged in user will be able to delete or edit an existing weight entry.
• Better Tables.. Data tables in front end and admin will support paging and sorting.
• Admin: Extra Settings. Extra settings to customise the plugin will be added e.g. number of plot points on graph, rows per page, etc.’, WE_LS_SLUG)

Read more about features

Languages support

The plugin is written in English (UK) but has support for other languages such as French, Spanish, Dutch, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese-Brazil, etc. For a list of supported languages please visit:

Weight Tracker Website – Supported Languages

Need a translation? Please read the following guide: Translating the Weight Tracker plugin

Documentation

Need further help? Please visit the dedicated site:

Weight Tracker Website

Donate

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1. Install “Weight Tracker” via the “Plugins” page in WordPress Admin (or download zip and upload).
2. Setup the plugin in WordPress Admin panel by goto to Settings > Weight Tracker
3. Create a page that users will visit. Within the page content add the shortcode [wlt].
4. Voila

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   All three tabs of the main [wlt] shortcode

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   Tab one of [wlt]: Chart, Target and Weight form.

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   Tab two of [wlt]: Target Weight and Weight History

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   Tab three of [wlt]: User preferences page

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   Examples of random placements of [wlt-chart] and [wlt-form]

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   Examples of the Chart and Form widgets

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   Settings page: General

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   Settings page: User Experience

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   Settings page: Chart

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    Settings page: Measurements

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    Admin - User data summary

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    Admin - Displaying a user's data card

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    Admin - User search results

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    Admin - Edit a user's data entry

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    Admin - User's data card displayed on a tablet

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    Admin - Displaying a another view of the user's data card

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    Admin - Displaying all Custom Fields

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    Admin - Add / Edit custom field

10.9

• New feature: Web Hooks: Data can now be fired to endpoints for new notes, see new setting “Send data for new notes”.
• New feature: Users can now opt out of emails from Weight Tracker via the user preferences [wt-user-settings] or [wt].
• New feature: Admin can now manage user’s opt out preferences when editing a user’s settings.
• New feature: Users can now opt out of birthday emails.
• New feature: Users can now opt out of new award emails.
• New feature: Users can now opt out of new note emails.
• Improvement: Added “hide-email-optout” argument to [wt-user-settings] and [wt] shortcodes to hide the email opt out form.
• Improvement: Moved “Birthday emails” setting to “Emails & Notifications” tab within Weight Tracker settings.

10.8.4

• Maintenance: Updated code around Gravity Forms to deal with PHP8.2 and false being a possible return from getLastErrors().

10.8.3

• Updated Plugin readme.txt to match WP’s new standards.
• Historic release notes moved to https://github.com/alicolville/Weight-Tracker/blob/master/release-history.txt

10.8.2

• Maintenance: Updated tested with WP 6.5 note.

10.8.1

• New feature: Added the option “both” to the “display” argument of [wt-difference-from-target]. This option will display both weight and percentage.
• New feature: Added the option “both” to the “display” argument of [wt-difference-between-latest-previous]. This option will display both weight and percentage.
• New feature: Added the slightly new components “latest-weight-difference-as-percentage” and “latest-weight-difference-as-weight” to change how the difference figure of “latest-weight” is rendered”. Read more: https://docs.yeken.uk/components.html
• Maintenance: Updated Chart.js library to 4.4.1.
• Maintenance: Removed deprecated “ltrim()” warning when no redirect-url specified on [wt] and [wt-form]

10.8

• New feature: Added new components to display custom fields (latest, previous and oldest) within summary boxes on [wt] shortcode. Read more: https://docs.yeken.uk/components.html

10.7.3

• Improvement: When [wt-table] is within edit mode, clicking an edit link will jump to the correct place om the page. Read more: https://github.com/alicolville/Weight-Tracker/issues/569

10.7.3

• New feature: Added “hide-tab-messages” argument to [wt] shortcode.
• Maintenance: Bumped min supported version of WordPress.
• Maintenance: Bumped min supported version of PHP to 7.4.
• Maintenance: Fixed PHP deprecated warnings were found.

10.7.2

• Improvement: The “percentage” argument of [wlt-calories progress=”auto” percentage=4.4] now supports decimal places.

10.7.1

• Improvement: Added support under the hood for mixed forms (e.g. that contain weights and targets) – note: this functionality is currently exposed to the end user.

10.7

• Maintenance: Removed support for the shortcode [wt-beta], you must use [wt] instead.
• Maintenance: Removed support for the shortcode [wlt], you must use [wt] instead.
• Maintenance: Removed support for the shortcode [wt-legacy], you must use [wt] instead.
• Maintenance: Removed redundant setting “Hide tab descriptions” from the “User Experience” settings page.
• Maintenance: Removed redundant setting “Tab appearance” from the “User Experience” settings page.
• Maintenance: Removed redundant setting “Switching to a drop down” from the “User Experience” settings page.
• Maintenance: Removed redundant setting “Switching to a drop down” from the “User Experience” settings page.
• Maintenance: Challenges functionality is now enabled by default.
• Maintenance: Based on PHPStorm inspection made 129+ changes to code for optimisation.

10.6

• New feature: Added the arguments “bmi-alert-if-below” and “bmi-alert-if-above” to [wt] to show an alert if the user’s BMI is below or above the specified value.
• New feature: Added the arguments “bmi-alert-if-below” and “bmi-alert-if-above” to [wt-kiosk] to show an alert if the user’s BMI is below or above the specified value.
• Improvement: Some jQuery scripts are now loaded in the footer rather than the header.

10.5

• Improvement: Added a new setting “Delete awards when weight entry deleted?”. If enabled, any awards that were awarded to a user will be deleted when the weight entry is deleted (only works with awards added in version 10.5 onwards). Read more: https://github.com/alicolville/Weight-Tracker/issues/549
• Bug fix: Removed reference to ws_ls_migrate_measurements_into_meta_fields() which was causing a fatal error for some users.

10.4

• New feature: New Setting “Who can export and delete user data?” to allow you to specify which roles can export and delete user data.
• Improvement: Added new arguments ( ‘weight’, ‘include-percentage-sign’ and ‘invert’ ) for shortcode [wt-difference-from-target]. Thanks @shakethatweight-simon for the PR!
• Bug fix: Fixed error being displayed when latest weight equals target weight within the “Latest vs Target” component on [wt].
• Maintenance: Removed redundant code for migrating from old measurement fields.

10.3.10

• Improvement: View All data page now will display custom fields on each row on larger devices.

10.3.9

• Bug fix: Error being thrown when Challenges were not enabled.

10.3.8

• Maintenance: Some general improvements to the code base and additional triggers for stats table to be refreshed.

10.3.7

• Bug fix: Fixed PHP error being thrown in [wt-custom-fields-latest] due to caching issue.
• Maintenance: Removed redundant photo migration code (from old system into custom fields). This code was added 4 years ago, if folks haven’t updated since then, then I doubt they will be now!

10.3.6

• Tweaks to readme

10.3.5

• Improvement: Added two new columns, “gains” and “losses” to the shortcode [wt-group-view-as-table]. Read more: https://docs.yeken.uk/shortcodes/wt-group-view-as-table.html
• Improvement: Added the argument “hide-column-diff-from-prev”, “hide-column-gains”, “hide-column-losses” to the shortcode [wt-group-view-as-table]. Read more: https://docs.yeken.uk/shortcodes/wt-group-view-as-table.html

10.3.4

• Maintenance: Removed reference to deprecated WP functionality (WP_User->id).
• Bug fix: Removed invalid reference to “$user_meta->first_name”.
• Bug fix: Corrected caching issue with “Latest Weight” component / shortcode.

10.3.3

• Improvement: Added a new summary box component “user-id”. Read more https://docs.yeken.uk/components.html
• Bug fix: [wt-user-settings] now correctly respects the “show-delete-data” argument correctly.

10.3.2

• Improvement: Added Beta support for Barcode scanning in [wt-kiosk]. Read more: https://docs.yeken.uk/shortcodes/wt-kiosk.html
• Improvement: [wt-kiosk] – hide the “Clear Screen” button until a user record has been selected.
• Improvement: [wt-bmi-calculator] now respects setting “Weight Units”. If “Pounds only” the Stones field is hidden. Read more: https://github.com/alicolville/Weight-Tracker/issues/532
• Bug fix: [wt-hip-waist-calculator] now populates the correct gender.
• Maintenance: Updated language files.

10.3.1

• Bug fix: Do not show gain/loss column within data tables (on main site) when not in Pro or Pro plus mode.
• Bug fix: [wt] – enable the settings tab if Targets enabled when not in Pro or Pro plus mode.
• Bug fix: [wt] – Don’t display the messages tab if messages aren’t enabled.
• Bug fix: [wt] – Don’t display target component if targets have been disabled in admin.

10.3

• New feature: Added the shortcode [wt-waist-to-hip-ratio-calculator] which renders a hip-to-waist ratio calculator. https://docs.yeken.uk/shortcodes/wt-waist-to-hip-ratio-calculator.html
• New feature: [wt-beta] has now replaced the older version. So [wt] contains the new functionality, the older shortcode can still be used (for now) by using the shortcode [wt-legacy] https://docs.yeken.uk/shortcodes/wt-legacy.html
• New feature: Added the shortcode [wt-custom-fields-latest] for displaying the latest value of a custom field. https://docs.yeken.uk/shortcodes/wt-custom-fields-latest.html
• New feature: Added the shortcode [wt-custom-fields-latest] for displaying the latest value of a custom field. https://docs.yeken.uk/shortcodes/wt-custom-fields-latest.html
• New feature: Added the shortcode [wt-custom-fields-previous] for displaying the latest value of a custom field. https://docs.yeken.uk/shortcodes/wt-custom-fields-previous.html
• New feature: Added the shortcode [wt-custom-fields-count] for displaying a count of how many times the given custom field has been entered. https://docs.yeken.uk/shortcodes/wt-custom-fields-previous.html.
• Improvement: Added the following fields to web hooks: ‘weight-previous-kg’, ‘weight-previous-display’, ‘weight-difference-latest-previous-kg’ and ‘weight-difference-latest-previous-display’ – See https://github.com/alicolville/Weight-Tracker/issues/517
• Improvement: Added “number-of-days” argument to [wt-reminder] shortcode. https://docs.yeken.uk/shortcodes/wt-reminder.html – See https://github.com/alicolville/Weight-Tracker/issues/268
• Improvement: Added an option to display users from all groups on [wt-group-view-as-table] and in [wt-kiosk] mode. See https://github.com/alicolville/Weight-Tracker/issues/487.
• Improvement: [wt-group-view-as-table] added new argument “default-to-users-group”, if set to true, the table will default to logged in user’s current group. See https://github.com/alicolville/Weight-Tracker/issues/510
• Improvement: Added “Diff. from Start Weight” column to search results within admin. See https://github.com/alicolville/Weight-Tracker/issues/473
• Improvement: Added limited support for shortcodes within notes. See https://github.com/alicolville/Weight-Tracker/issues/393
• Improvement: Added support for {first-name} and {last-name} tags within email notifications for notes. See https://github.com/alicolville/Weight-Tracker/issues/393
• Improvement: Added {first-name} to initial email template for a new note (will need to be manually added if you installed WT pre this update). See https://github.com/alicolville/Weight-Tracker/issues/393
• Improvement: Added a new option when exporting data, “All groups”. Allows you to state to export data for users that are in any group. https://github.com/alicolville/Weight-Tracker/issues/510
• Improvement: General refactoring of code
• Bug fix: When exporting data, selecting “None” for group had no effect. This has now been fixed. See https://github.com/alicolville/Weight-Tracker/issues/480

10.2.8

• Improvement: Show an “Editing [Name]” message when a user is selected in Kiosk mode.
• Improvement: New argument for [wt-beta], “kiosk-hide-editing-name”, to hide “Editing [Name]” message.

10.2.7

• Bug fix: Corrected issue where notifications aren’t shown in Kiosk mode.

10.2.6

• Removed additional marketing from help page.

10.2.5

• Bug fix: In a table, show comparison data between weights.
• Bug fix: Corrected fix in 10.2.3 and put the correct image path in the CSS file!

10.2.4

• Bug fix: Hide custom fields when editing an entry if “hide-custom-fields” specified on [wt-beta]. https://github.com/alicolville/Weight-Tracker/issues/492
• Bug fix: Fixed an issue where weights were not being formatted correctly in a table if a note had been added.

10.2.3

• Bug fix: Fixed an issue where notes aren’t visible: https://github.com/alicolville/Weight-Tracker/issues/495
• Bug fix: Fixed a CSS reference to a missing image https://github.com/alicolville/Weight-Tracker/issues/494

10.2.2

• Bug fix: Fixed paging issue on [wt-notes].
• Bug fix: Removed Delete inactive icon from [wt-notes].

10.2.1

• Bug fix: [wt-kiosk] now passes the arguments correctly to the underlying [wt-beta] shortcode.
• Bug fix: When showing today’s entries for the group, then show the correct label “Diff from start”.

10.2

• New feature: Added a new “Kiosk mode” for [wt-beta]!! Read more https://docs.yeken.uk/shortcodes/wt-kiosk.html
• New feature: Added a new tab to [wt-beta] to display the user’s awards. Read more: https://docs.yeken.uk/shortcodes/wt-beta.html
• New feature: New shortcode [wt-group-view-as-table]. Read more: https://docs.yeken.uk/shortcodes/wt-group-view-as-table.html
• New feature: Added a new setting “Set default aim?” that allows you to specify a default aim if a user has selected one.
• Improvement: Searching for a user will now consider their forename/surname.
• Improvement: Expand Toggle/button on tables will be red if there is a note for the entry.
• Improvement: Added a new argument “show-tab-info” to [wt-beta] to add an additional summary tab. Read more: https://docs.yeken.uk/shortcodes/wt-beta.html
• Improvement: Added a new argument “summary-boxes-summary” to [wt-beta] to specify which components appear on the summary tab. Read more: https://docs.yeken.uk/shortcodes/wt-beta.html
• Improvement: When a user is given an award, a notification is displayed at the top of the [wt-beta] shortcode.
• Improvement: Added a new summary box component “latest-award”. Read more https://docs.yeken.uk/components.html
• Improvement: Added a new summary box component “number-of-awards”. Read more https://docs.yeken.uk/components.html
• Improvement: Added a new summary box component “age-dob”. Read more https://docs.yeken.uk/components.html
• Improvement: Added a new summary box component “divider”. Read more https://docs.yeken.uk/components.html
• Improvement: Added a new summary box component “name-and-email”. Read more https://docs.yeken.uk/components.html
• Improvement: Added a new summary box component “start-bmi”. Read more https://docs.yeken.uk/components.html
• Improvement: Added a new summary box component “start-bmr”. Read more https://docs.yeken.uk/components.html
• Improvement: Added a new summary box component “activity-level”. Read more https://docs.yeken.uk/components.html
• Improvement: Added a new summary box component “weight-difference-since-previous”. Read more https://docs.yeken.uk/components.html
• Improvement: Added a new summary box component “height”. Read more https://docs.yeken.uk/components.html
• Improvement: Added a new summary box component “aim”. Read more https://docs.yeken.uk/components.html
• Improvement: Added a new summary box component “gender”. Read more https://docs.yeken.uk/components.html
• Improvement: Added a new summary box component “group”. Read more https://docs.yeken.uk/components.html
• Improvement: Added a new summary box component “latest-versus-start”. Read more https://docs.yeken.uk/components.html
• Improvement: Added a new summary box component “calories-gain”. Read more https://docs.yeken.uk/components.html
• Improvement: Added a new summary box component “calories-auto”. Read more https://docs.yeken.uk/components.html
• Improvement: Added a new summary box component “calories-loss”. Read more https://docs.yeken.uk/components.html
• Improvement: Added a new summary box component “calories-maintain”. Read more https://docs.yeken.uk/components.html
• Bug fix: Fixed label for drop downs. Clicking a label should now set focus to drop down.
• Bug fix: Fixed “show-delete-data” argument on [wt-beta] so the “Delete data” part of the form is properly hidden.
• Bug fix: Fixed “enable-week-ranges” argument on [wt-beta] to ensure week selectors appear.
• Bug fix: Fixed issuer where BMR calculations would throw a fatal error if latest weight was 0.

10.1.4

• Bug fix: For birthday emails, {name} has been replaced with {first-name} and {last-name}. These can be used within the email template.

10.1.3

• Improvement: Updated translation files for [wt-beta] and [wt-bmi-calculator].

10.1.2

• Improvement: [wt-beta] Show difference column in user data table.
• Bug fix: Show difference column in admin user data tables.

10.1.1

• Bug fix: Allow simple HTML to be rendered in notes to a user.

10.1

New feature: Added new shortcode [wt-bmi-calculator]. Read more: https://docs.yeken.uk/shortcodes/wt-bmi-calculator.html

10.0.4

• Bug fix: Ensure if a user hasn’t specified a their preferred units or UK/US date then default to admin defaults.

10.0.3

• Improvement: Added a new summary box component “number-of-weight-entries”. Read more https://docs.yeken.uk/components.html
• Improvement: Added new argument for [wt-beta] “disable-main-font” which if set to true will disable the main font used in the shortcode. Read more: https://docs.yeken.uk/shortcodes/wt-beta.html
• Improvement: Added new argument for [wt-beta] “disable-theme-css” which if set to true will disable the additional CSS used within the shortcode. Read more: https://docs.yeken.uk/shortcodes/wt-beta.html
• Bug fix: [wt-beta] if one of the hide-custom-field arguments has been specified then ensure all entries displayed in the chart or table have a weight entry.

10.0.2

• Improvement: Added the argument ‘summary-boxes-advanced’ to [wt-beta] allowing you to specify what boxes and the order they are displayed in at the top of the advanced tab. Read more: https://docs.yeken.uk/shortcodes/wt-beta.html
• Improvement: Added the argument ‘summary-boxes-home’ to [wt-beta] allowing you to specify what boxes and the order they are displayed in at the top of the home tab. Read more: https://docs.yeken.uk/shortcodes/wt-beta.html
• Improvement: Added the argument ‘summary-boxes-data’ to [wt-beta] allowing you to specify what boxes and the order they are displayed in at the top of the data tab. Read more: https://docs.yeken.uk/shortcodes/wt-beta.html

10.0.1

• Improvement: Added the following new arguments to [wt-beta]: ‘hide-custom-fields-form’, ‘hide-custom-fields-chart’ and ‘hide-custom-fields-table’. Read more: https://docs.yeken.uk/shortcodes/wt-beta.html

10.0

• New feature (beta): [wt-beta] – Currently in the process of building out a new version of [wt]! Read more: https://docs.yeken.uk/shortcodes/wt-beta.html
• Improvement: New arguments for [wt-user-settings]: “show-delete-data”, “hide-titles” and “show-user-preferences”. Read more: https://docs.yeken.uk/shortcodes/wt-user-settings.html
• Improvement: New arguments for [wt-notes]: “message-no-data”, “paging” and “notes-per-page”. Read more: https://docs.yeken.uk/shortcodes/wt-notes.html
• Bug fix: Issue with -0lbs being displayed instead of 0lbs.
• Bug fix: Time of message not displayed correctly.
• Bug fix: Messages to a user are removed when “Delete all data” pressed.