描述

TradeSchool Manager is a purpose-built student-information and gradebook plugin for trade schools, vocational programs, certification academies, apprenticeships, and hands-on training providers. Everything runs inside your own WordPress install – no SaaS accounts, no per-student fees, no monthly subscriptions for the free core.

Built and maintained by CJs Web Service (cjswebservice.com). Product home, demos, and documentation live at tradeschoolmanager.com.

Why TradeSchool Manager?

Most school plugins are built for K-12 or higher-ed and bury trade-school workflows under features you’ll never use. TradeSchool Manager starts from the trade-school workflow:

Cohort-based programs that run across school years, with a one-click rollover that copies class definitions and assignments into the new year while preserving every prior year’s grades, rosters, and attendance untouched.
A gradebook that supports points, weighted categories, and pass/fail (because hands-on competencies aren’t a percentage).
A global Active School Year switcher so dashboards, rosters, and gradebooks always reflect the year you’re actually working in.
Branded, print-ready PDF report cards and rosters out of the box.
Student and teacher portals as front-end shortcodes you drop onto any WordPress page – no separate app to host.

What’s in the free core

Students & Teachers – Profiles with photos, emergency contacts, and portal credentials.
Sponsors & Authorized Contacts – Optional accounts for family members, employers, sponsors, or other approved contacts linked to one or more students.
Programs & School Years – Multi-year programs with enrollment, GPA computation, year rollover, and historical preservation.
Classes & Gradebook – Points-based, weighted-category, or pass/fail grading; assignment categories; extra credit; teacher-scoped views.
Attendance – Daily attendance tracking with per-class and per-student reports.
Announcements – Post school-wide or class-specific announcements visible in the portals.
Student, Teacher, and Sponsor Portals – Front-end shortcodes for grades, assignments, rosters, payments, and linked-student access.
CSV Import/Export – Move students, classes, and assignments without lock-in.
Branded PDF Reports – Unified PDF engine renders report cards, rosters, and statements on your school letterhead.
Active School Year context – One global switcher scopes every list, dashboard, and gradebook.
Email delivery via Brevo – Built-in, optional. 300 transactional emails/day on Brevo’s free plan; automatic fallback to native wp_mail() if the daily cap is reached. You can also skip Brevo entirely and use whatever SMTP plugin you already run.

Optional paid add-ons

The free core is fully functional on its own. These capabilities ship as separate add-on plugins from tradeschoolmanager.com and are detected at runtime – any UI tied to an add-on stays hidden when that add-on isn’t installed.

Certificates – Auto-issued PDF certificates of completion with reminder emails.
Reports & Transcripts – Multi-year transcripts, summary report cards, GPA, credits.
Workshops – Short-form, year-agnostic courses with their own gradebook and completion certificates.
Applications – Public application forms and an admissions pipeline.
Invoicing & Contracts – Tuition invoicing, payment plans, e-sign contracts, and optional Stripe checkout.
Custom Fields & Student Documents – Per-program metadata plus audit-logged document uploads for government compliance.

Who it’s for

Trade schools (electrical, plumbing, HVAC, welding, automotive, construction)
Cosmetology, esthetics, and barbering schools
CDL, heavy-equipment, and aviation training
Allied health, nursing assistant, and phlebotomy programs
Coding bootcamps and short-form vocational programs
Apprenticeship and union training programs
Anyone running cohort-based, hands-on training out of WordPress

External services

The free plugin makes no calls to external services until you opt in to Brevo email delivery (which requires a free Brevo account and an API key). Optional add-ons may integrate with Stripe (payments); those add-ons are downloaded separately and have their own privacy disclosures.

Brevo (optional, free core): Transactional email via the Brevo HTTP API. Only the message payload (to/from/subject/body) is sent, and only when you supply an API key in TradeSchool > Settings > Email. Brevo terms: brevo.com/legal/termsofuse. Privacy: brevo.com/legal/privacypolicy.

Support & contributing

Product site, demos, docs: tradeschoolmanager.com
Author: CJs Web Service – cjswebservice.com
Issues and feature requests: through the WordPress.org support forum for this plugin

屏幕截图

Admin dashboard with class averages and active-school-year context.

安装

Upload the plugin via Plugins > Add New > Upload Plugin, or extract to /wp-content/plugins/tradeschool-manager/.
Activate TradeSchool Manager through the Plugins screen.
Visit TradeSchool > Settings to set your school name, logo, currency, and email-from address.
Create your first School Year, then your first Program and Classes.
Create dedicated WordPress pages for the portals and add the shortcodes (see TradeSchool > About for the full list):
- [tsm_student_portal]
- [tsm_teacher_portal]
- [tsm_parent_portal]

常见问题

Does the free plugin require a license key or external account?: No. The free plugin runs entirely on your own WordPress install with no key validation and no calls home. Email via Brevo is opt-in and requires only a free Brevo account.
Can I migrate to a new school year without losing history?: Yes. The Year Rollover tool copies class definitions and assignments into a new year while preserving the source year’s roster, grades, and attendance exactly as they were. Prior-year report cards and reports continue to render correctly forever.
Can students see only their own data?: Yes. The student portal authenticates against the student record and scopes every query to that student. Teachers similarly only see their assigned classes. Sponsors and authorized contacts only see students they’re linked to.
Does it support pass/fail grading?: Yes. Each class can use points, weighted categories, or pass/fail. Pass/fail classes with no graded work display ” – ” rather than a misleading “Fail”.
How do I take payments or issue tuition invoices?: Install the optional Invoicing & Contracts add-on from tradeschoolmanager.com. The free plugin does not handle invoicing or payments.
Where are student documents stored?: Document uploads ship in the optional Custom Fields & Student Documents add-on. When installed, files are stored in a private tsm-private/student-docs/ directory inside wp-content/uploads, protected by an .htaccess deny rule and SHA-prefixed filenames, with a full upload/download/delete audit log for government chain-of-custody.
Does it work with my theme?: Yes. The portals render inside your active theme via shortcodes and inherit your theme’s colors and typography. Optional portal-theme polish is built in and can be disabled per page.
Is it translation-ready?: Yes. All user-facing strings use the tradeschool-manager text domain. WordPress 4.6+ auto-loads translations hosted on WordPress.org.

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更新日志

1.1.18

Reordered the branded admin sidebar into Manage, Add-ons, and System sections.
Added core fallback sidebar entries for installed add-ons so Certificates and Applications appear consistently.
Hid the default WordPress admin footer on TradeSchool Manager screens.

1.1.17

Fixed student portal tab actions so links and panels initialize reliably in the focused portal layout.
Fixed teacher portal subtab initialization timing for class and add-on views.

1.1.16

Converted remaining first-party inline portal, sponsor, email, add-on, and admin UI assets to WordPress enqueue APIs.
Updated extension hook names and uninstall cleanup symbols to the long tradeschool_manager_ prefix for Plugin Check.
Updated bundled Chart.js to 4.5.1 and TCPDF to 6.11.3.
Kept first-run and add-on notices limited to TradeSchool Manager admin screens.

1.1.15

Limited first-run and add-on data notices to TradeSchool Manager admin screens.
Converted reviewer-named inline portal/theme, feedback, attendance, page-title, and focus-mode assets to WordPress enqueue APIs.
Sanitized grade, class, student, and program hook payloads before passing data to extension hooks.
Sanitized preserved active-year request values before reuse.
Added the requested WordPress.org contributor username to the readme.

1.1.14

Added narrow PHPCS suppressions for intentional public extension hooks that Plugin Check does not accept through its inferred prefix.

1.1.13

Updated custom extension hooks to start with the literal tradeschool-manager plugin slug used by Plugin Check.
Scoped uninstall cleanup variables inside a local closure so the uninstall routine does not declare temporary globals.

1.1.12

Updated extension hook names and uninstall helper names to the long tradeschoolmanager_ prefix used for Plugin Check inference.

1.1.11

Renamed core extension hooks to a registered plugin prefix for WordPress Plugin Check compliance.
Cleaned uninstall-only variable and helper names so the uninstall routine passes prefix checks.

1.1.10

Updated the Add-ons settings screen to use stable Freemius license routes for Reports & Transcripts and Workshops.

1.1.9

Resolved WordPress Plugin Check naming warnings for core teacher portal and grade-save hooks.
Cleaned uninstall helper naming to use the full TradeSchool Manager prefix.
Normalized the main plugin file line endings for repository checks.

1.1.8

Added invoice context fields so add-ons can link invoices to a specific workshop instance or other future record.

1.1.7

Moved the core class report into a Gradebook tab.
The dedicated Reports navigation now appears only when the Reports & Transcripts add-on is installed.

1.1.6

Added teacher portal extension hooks for add-ons.
Enables the Workshops add-on to show assigned workshop dashboards inside the teacher portal.

1.1.5

Improved the shared PDF engine so add-ons can render wide reports in landscape layout.
Aligned the plugin header version and runtime version constant.

1.1.4

Moved Stripe setup out of core Settings navigation and pointed administrators to Invoicing > Stripe.

1.1.3

Updated the Add-ons settings screen to use Freemius license popup triggers for inactive registered add-ons, matching the working Plugins screen activation flow.

1.1.2

Improved the Add-ons settings screen so inactive Freemius add-ons point to license-key activation and show the correct inactive state.

1.1.1

Updated the Add-ons dashboard to use stable add-on license management pages instead of direct Freemius account URLs.

1.1.0

Stable launch release of TradeSchool Manager.
Students, teachers, classes, programs, school years, and year rollover.
Status-driven gradebook with weighted categories, bonus, late penalty, and per-assignment entry screens (admin + teacher portal).
Student, teacher, and sponsor portals with branded layouts, password management, and portal page setup.
Attendance, assignments, announcements, and built-in PDF engine for report cards and transcripts.
CSV import/export for students, classes, and grades.
Email notifications with native wp_mail() delivery settings, sender identity controls, template review, and activity logging.
Setup Checklist, in-admin Documentation, and Shortcodes reference on the About page.
Add-on framework for optional Certificates, Reports & Transcripts, Workshops, Applications, Invoicing & Contracts, and Custom Fields & Student Documents.