WP-HR Manager: The Human Resources Plugin for WordPress

October 31, 2023

WP-HR Manager: The Human Resources Plugin for WordPress Plugin

Easily add a powerful HR / human resource management system and employee self service (ESS) portal to your website. Credits This plugin uses [WP ERP …

Now you can easily manage HR (Human Resource) records and processes from within your website with our highly rated plugin, WP-HR Manager. You can quickly install an ESS (employee self-service) portal and HRM system, update staff records, track attendance and absence, message team members, approve leave and more.

Ideal for small and medium sized businesses (SME) who want to create their own HR information system (HRIS) on WordPress.

WP-HR Manager enables you to:

  • Install a powerful HRM system on your website to record and manage employee HR information via any browser
  • Take advantage of employee self service (ESS) features to reduce admin and improve accuracy (ideal for remote workers)
  • Retain control of your data (and host your site/data in the location of your choice) helping with GDPR compliance
  • Manage as many employees as you wish, with our free HR WordPress plugin: No incremental/per employee charges unlike cloud based HR systems
  • Add features and plugins as you need them (even build your own!) with fully editable open source code
  • Control access to data and capabilities with three inbuilt user levels (Admin, HR Manager and Employee)
  • Keep it focussed – WP-HR Manager only adds HR features, keeping the plugin as lite as possible

New – WP-HR Mobile Check In Add On

We now offer a mobile app to enable employees to check in/out (clock in/out) with mobile phones.
Requires Pro version and WP-HR Attendance upgrade within WP-HR Manager (Settings) or
Find out more

This plugin includes –

WP-HR Manager Features

  • Company profile
  • Branch listing – add local offices, outlets, factories etc.
  • Employee profile – record and manage employee information
  • Department listing – create departments and assign to employees
  • Roles listing – create roles (eg ‘Driver’ or ‘Branch Manager’) and assign to employees
  • Leave / holiday management – create and approve holiday, sickness, unpaid and other leave requests
  • Set multiple leave / holiday policies to specify number of day’s leave allowed, national (Bank) holiday dates, etc
  • Monitor number of leave days taken and remaining for each employee
  • Enable Employee Self Service (ESS) options so staff and update their own records
  • Front end view for employees (discourages logged in employees from viewing WordPress backend screens)
  • Employee Assessments and Appraisals – track performance and set goals
  • WordPress admin dashboard customizing features
  • DashBoard Tab added in the setting page
  • Admin can hid/show the dashboard widgets as well as in the employee profile
  • Emoloyee have option to show/hide Annual Work Anniversary,Birthday Anniversary and InOutopts from profile edit window
  • Audit log – track changes to records
  • 44 currencies supported
  • Announcements feature – send to specific employees or all employees
  • Notification emails with custom templates and shortcode support

This plugin is forked from https://wordpress.org/plugins/erp/ by Tareq Hasan,Nizam Uddin,weDevs
in order to keep up with changes to the core WordPress.

This plugin includes additional features than the original plugin:

  • Enhancements to leave management, fixes, and licensing SDK.
  • Plugin supports in multiple languages.
  • Added feature to book leave from the front end view.
  • Added feature to resend the welcome email.
  • Added feature to allow more than one leave per day.
  • Enable employees to apply for leave for a half-day or a few hours based on their needs.
  • Calculate leave from the start date (by months left in the year).
  • Enable leave for future and past years.
  • Added feature to be able to sync “Who is out” widget with the calendar.
  • Display all employees on the calendar of who is going to be off throughout the year.
  • Added feature to only display assigned leave policies to the employee.
  • Added feature to display employee leave to the line managers.
  • Added feature to change the employee profile title based on the department.
  • Added feature to archive old leave requests (PRO VERSION ONLY).

Upgrade to WP-HR Manager Pro for additional features

  • Reports
  • Import / export employee data
  • Option to force employee to front end profile page on log in (restrict access to WP back end)
  • Multiple Holiday Calendars (useful to create holiday sets for different countries)
  • Allow / Restrich leave notifications and approvals from HR Managers and Line Managers

WP-HR Manager Extensions

  • WP-HR Attendance (monitor check-in / check-out, add shifts)
  • WP-HR Mobile Check In (NEW! enable employees to check-in / check-out on their mobile phones)
  • WP-HR Recruitment (create and advertise job vacancies on your site and manage recruitment process)
  • WP-HR GDPR Pro (a set of useful tools to: Create your Privacy Policy; Record Consent to Manage Data from employees and job applicants; track employee GDPR training; log and manage Subject Access Requests; and more.) We also offer a stand alone lite version for free here
  • WP-HR SMS Messages(Send SMS messages to employees)
  • WP-HR Documents (Upload documents to a company library or to employee profiles)
  • WP-HR Add Fields(Add extra fields to collect and display information in the employee profile and all other tabs)
  • More planned – watch this space!

These extensions can be added from with the WPHR Settings menu on your WordPress dashboard.

Links

Translations (full or partial)

  • Bulgarian / Български
  • Chinese (China) / 简体中文
  • Danish / Dansk
  • Dutch / Nederlands
  • German / Deutsch
  • Japanese / 日本語
  • Norwegian (Bokmål) / Norsk bokmål
  • Polish / Polski
  • Persian (Iranian)
  • Spanish (Spain) / Español
  • Swedish / Svenska

If you would like to help with translating this plugin, please go here

Press Coverage

"WP-HR Manager is a new approach to HRM software - neither a clunky old desktop application, nor a cloud system with expensive per employee pricing. An exciting new tool for HR managers." 

Becki Clarke, Editor, www.HRreview.co.uk

"A great tool for organisations of all sizes. The free version does all the basics things you need - and then you can customize with add-ons to get the exact mix of functionality you want. This one will just get better and better." 

Bill Banham, Publisher, www.hr-gazette.com

Installation

Automatically Install From WordPress Dashboard

  1. Login to your the admin panel
  2. Navigate to Plugins -> Add New
  3. Search WP-HR Manager
  4. Click install and activate respectively.

Manual Install From WordPress Dashboard

If your server is not connected to the Internet, then you can use this method:

  1. Download the plugin by clicking on the blue ‘Download’ button above. A ZIP file will be downloaded.
  2. Login to your site’s admin panel and navigate to Plugins -> Add New -> Upload.
  3. Click ‘Choose File’, select the plugin file and click install.

Install Using FTP

If you are unable to use any of the methods due to internet connectivity and file permission issues, then you can use this method:

  1. Download the plugin by clicking on the blue ‘Download’ button above. A ZIP file will be downloaded.
  2. Unzip the file.
  3. Launch your favorite FTP client. Such as FileZilla, FireFTP, CyberDuck etc. If you are a more advanced user, then you can use SSH too.
  4. Upload the folder to wp-content/plugins/
  5. Log in to your WordPress dashboard.
  6. Navigate to Plugins -> Installed
  7. Activate the plugin.

Screenshots

  1. Easy to configure - built in setup wizard

    Easy to configure - built in setup wizard

  2. Comprehensive employee records

    Comprehensive employee records

  3. Add information about employment status, compensation role, work location and reporting lines

    Add information about employment status, compensation role, work location and reporting lines

  4. Monitor and assign leave.

    Monitor and assign leave.

  5. Add notes and free-style employee information.

    Add notes and free-style employee information.

  6. Create performance reviews, rate employee by key criteria, track manager comments and set goals.

    Create performance reviews, rate employee by key criteria, track manager comments and set goals.

  7. Give employee enhanced capabilities by setting status to 'HR Manager' or (with Pro version) push default their access to front-end screens only on logon.

    Give employee enhanced capabilities by setting status to 'HR Manager' or (with Pro version) push default their access to front-end screens only on logon.

  8. Create difference leave policies for different locations and job roles to take account of local practices.

    Create difference leave policies for different locations and job roles to take account of local practices.

  9. Create employee announcements. Distribute to all or selected employees.

    Create employee announcements. Distribute to all or selected employees.

FAQ

Do you have any limits on the number of admins, managers or employees?

No.

Does WP-HR Manager support WordPress multisite installation?

No.

Can Employees Request Leave for Less than a Whole Day?

Yes – Leave can be booked in 15 minute increments

Can I Have This or That Feature?

Yes – we love to receive ideas and suggestions here and can also undertake bespoke projects here

How does x work? Where is the documentation?

Comprehensive documentation can be found here

Changelog

= 3.0.9– 31 October 2023=
* Freemius SDK verion 2.6.0

= v3.0.7-> 10 August 2022
* Fixed Email Issue

= v3.0.6-> 03 July 2022
* Fixed Email Issue
*Fixed other Minor issues

= v3.0.5-> 19 April 2022
* Fixed Minor Issues

= v3.0.4-> 24 March 2022
* Fixed Leave Hours Issue
*Fixed WP-HR-Manager Menu issue

= v3.0.3-> 23 February 2022
* Security fix

= v3.0.2 -> 17 January 2022
* Fixed Leave Request Hours(Hour Display when single day selects)

= v3.0.1 -> 31 December 2021
* Fixed Leave Entitlement Add issue
*Fixed WP-HR-Field issue

= v3.0.0 -> 16 November 2021
* Fixed Employee Shift Issue

= v2.9.9 -> 07 October 2021
* Fixed Emplyee Welcome Email Format Issue
*Add Option to delete all data when plugin deactivate
*Add Department column in Leave Request admin Table

= v2.9.8 -> 17 Augtust 2021
* Fixed Employee redirect Issue
*Fixed theme conflict Issue

= v2.9.7 -> 13 April 2021
* Fixed Company Update Issue

= v2.9.6 -> 09 April 2021
* Fixed Leave Issue
* Fixed Add New Employee Issue

= v2.9.5 -> 22 March 2021
* Fixed All Security Issues
* Update – Freemius SDK updated to Version 2.4.2

= v2.9.4 -> 03 March 2021
* Fixed All Security Issues

v2.9.2 -> 16 February 2021

  • Fix Security Issues

v2.9.1 -> 05 January 2021

  • Fix Security Issues
  • Update – Freemius SDK updated to Version 2.4.1

v2.9 -> 16 December 2020

  • Fix Popup Model issue
  • Update – Freemius SDK updated to Version 2.4.1

v2.8 -> 04 September 2020

  • Fix-Leave Entitlement deletion issue

v2.7 -> 29 July 2020

  • Update – Freemius SDK updated to Version 2.4.0

v2.6 -> 8 April 2020

  • Fix – Fix leave entitlement issue
  • Feature – Add dishboardwidget Tab to hid/show widgets on Dashboard and employee profile
  • Fix-Fix company location issue
  • Feature – change the province/state dropdown with text Field in the employee profile

v2.5 -> 20 March 2020

  • Update – Freemius SDK updated to Version 2.3.2

v2.4 -> 25 November 2019

  • Fix – Fix minor issues

v2.3 -> 3 October 2019

  • Fix – Fix date formatting issue in email

v2.2 -> 16 September 2019

  • Fix – Minor issue

v2.1 -> 6 September 2019

  • Feature – Change employee profile title base on the department

v2.0 -> 7 August 2019

  • Feature – Add option to display assigned a policy to the employee
  • Feature – Add option to display employee leaves to the line manager

v1.9 -> 20 July 2019

  • Tweak – Display only assigned a policy to the employee
  • Fix – Date formate issue during leave request

v1.8 -> 14 June 2019

  • Fix – Invalid function issue during update

v1.7 -> 13 June 2019

  • Feature – Display all employees to the calendar of who is going to be off throughout the year
  • Feature – Sync “Who is out” widget with the calendar
  • Fix – Date standardisations bug
  • Fix – Policy limit issue
  • Fix – Import leave issue

v1.6 -> 26 February 2019

  • Tweak – Fixed Date of Hire Incorrectly shows Today’s Date

v1.5 -> 19 February 2019

  • Tweak – Handle invalid location

v1.4 -> 29 January 2019

  • Fix – Licence code bug

v1.3 -> 25 January 2019

  • Feature – Enable Leave for Future and Past Years

v1.2 -> 08 January 2019

  • Fix – Leave requests not displaying issue

v1.1 -> 07 January 2019

  • Feature – Resend Welcome Email
  • Feature – Enable more than one leave per day
  • Feature – Leave Emails to Show Hours
  • Feature – Archive old leave requests (PRO VERSION ONLY)
  • Feature – Calculate leave from start date (by months left in the year)
  • Update – Freemius SDK updated to Version 2.2.2
  • Translation – Added Turkish translation thanks to Kaya Zeren
  • Translation – Added Arabic translation draft
  • Fix – Affiliate scheme settings
  • Tweak – some English (UK) translations

v1.0 -> 08 November 2018

  • Tweak – Enable WP-HR Mobile Check In to work with WP-HR Manager Pro
  • Tweak – Enable WP-HR SMS WP-HR Manager
  • Update – Freemius SDK updated to Version 2.1.3

v0.1.9 -> 24 August 2018

  • Feature – Allow / restrict Leave requests and approvals from HR and Line Managers
  • Fix – Email templates losing customizations following updates
  • Tweak – Enable integration with Documents addon (amended functions-capabilities.php)

v0.1.8.4 -> 7 August 2018

  • Second attemmpt

v0.1.8.3 -> 7 August 2018

  • Fix – missing files

v0.1.8.2 -> 3 August 2018

  • Fix – Leave button in employee profile not working
  • Fix – Available Leave showing as a hyphen
  • Fix – Common holidays not taken into account on leave requests
  • Tweak – Added Pagination on Holiday page
  • Updated – Freemius SDK

v0.1.8.1 -> 19 July 2018

  • Fix – Leave totals not displaying correctly

v0.1.8 -> 4 June 2018

  • Tweak – Improved labelling of leave management fields
  • Feature – Add option to book leave from front end view

v0.1.7.5 -> 23 May 2018

  • Fix – Incorrect SDK added to last update
  • Feature – Additional translations included

v0.1.7.4 -> 22 May 2018

  • Fix – Issue with leave available displaying incorrectly

v0.1.7.3 -> 14 April 2018

  • Fix – Replace files dropped in previous upload

v0.1.7.2 -> 12 April 2018

  • Fix – Incorrect Text Domain
  • Update – Freemius SDK

v0.1.7.1 -> 22 February 2018

  • Fix – Resolve plugin clash ‘cannot redeclare… etc’ on installation

v0.1.7 -> 12 February 2018

  • Feature – Add multiple holiday calendars (eg for different countries) in Pro version
  • Feature – Add Danish language translation (thanks to Mark M)
  • Feature – Make leave applications more granular – you can now take less than a whole day
  • Fix – Updates Freemius SDK to V3 – should fix upgrading errors

v0.1.6 -> 30 January 2018

  • Quick fix for Library error

v0.1.5 -> 30 October 2017

  • Fixes plugin clash

v0.1.4 -> 23 October 2017

  • Fixes missing reports

v0.1.3 -> 03 October 2017

  • Fixes compatibility issues with mobiles
  • Improves responsive displays on front and back end
  • Added UK English, Polish and Lithuanian (part) translation files

v0.1.2 -> 27 September 2017

  • Updated more code with WordPress slug

v0.1.1 -> 24 September 2017

  • Updated Freemius code with WordPress slug

v0.1 -> 24 September 2017

  • Beta Release

Details

  • Version: 3.0.9
  • Active installations: 500
  • WordPress Version: 5.0
  • Tested up to: 6.3.5

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