Business Hours Indicator

• Use Blocks or shortcodes to display your opening times in any format anywhere on your website

• Shortcodes & block to indicate if you are currently open or closed

• Alternate message when you’re almost opening or closing

• Shortcodes or block to display something only when you are open or closed

• Easily style everything

• 4 widgets (does the same as the shortcodes)

• Supports Vacations

• Supports ‘special dates’ with different opening times (e.g: holidays)

• Supports countdown until your next opening/closing time

• Supports multiple locations

• Developer API (more info below)

• Frontend translated in: Dutch, German, English, Greek, Spanish, Italian, French, Bulgarian, Swedish, Danish,

Slovakian, Slovenian, Lithuanian, Croatian, Russian, Czech, Norwegian, Finnish, Icelandic

• beautiful & user-friendly settings screens for you, or your client, to work in

Check out a complete list of features below.

Quick links

• » Examples

• » Documentation

• » Pro Version

Requirements

• PHP 7.0 or higher

• WordPress 3.7 or higher

General features

• Shortcode to display business hours

• Widget to display business hours

• Shortcode to display if you’re currently open/closed

• Widget to display if you’re currently open/closed

• Shortcode to display content only when you’re open

• Shortcode to display content only when you’re closed

• Choose your prefered time zone

• Display times in 12 or 24 hour format

• Enter multiple locations for more businesses (up to 3 in the free version)

• Include special hours such as holidays

• Include vacation hours

• Highlight the current day

• Frontend translated in: Dutch, German, English, Greek, Spanish, Catalan, Italian, French, Bulgarian, Swedish, Danish,

Slovakian, Slovenian, Lithuanian, Croatian, Russian, Czech, Norwegian, Finnish, Icelandic, Latvian, Hungarian.

Displaying opening times

• Show the opening hours in a table

• Show the opening hours inline

• Consolidate the output: group days with the same opening hours

• Show/hide holiday hours

• Show/hide vacation hours

• Highlight the current day

Currently open/closed Indication

• Edit the “we’re currently open” message

• Edit the “we’re currently closed” message

• Include the current time in the output

• Include the current day in the output

• Add an opening/closing soon warning like “hurry, we’re closing in 35 minutes”

Limitations

The free version has some limitations you should be aware of. Our pro version (features below) fixes those.

• The free version does not work with caching mechanisms.

• It’s not possible to add a break in opening hours.

• You can add up to 3 locations in the free version.

Developer API

Use the plugin anywhere in WordPress by using the following calls:

• MBHILITE()->is_open('location name') returns true if the location is currently open. False otherwise.

• MBHILITE()->is_closed('location name') returns true if the location is currently closed. False otherwise.

• MBHILITE()->get_opening_hours('location name') returns an array of objects containing the location’s opening hours.

• MBHILITE()->get_specials('location name') returns an array of objects containing the location’s special opening hours.

• MBHILITE()->get_vacations('location name') returns an array of objects containing the location’s vacations.

More documentation coming soon.

PRO FEATURES

• Supports caching

• SEO features

• Enter unlimited multiple locations for more businesses

• Multiple time slots/day for when you close at noon

• Woocommerce support: disable orders + hide “add to cart” buttons when you are closed.

• ‘Message builder’ allows you to add dynamic codes to build any message you like. A few examples:

• Today is March 8, we’re open from 9AM to 5PM.

• It’s 7:12PM, we’re closed. We open again on Thursday, in 7 hours and 45 minutes.

• Hurry, we’re closing in 13 minutes!

And much more!

• Only show today’s opening times

• Seasonal hours

• Set how many minutes or hours in advance to show “opening/closing soon” message.

• Customize output with line breaks & separators

• Premium support

• Receive updates & bugfixes

• Show abbreviated days in outputs

• More flexibility

• Priority feauture requests

• And more..!

Find out more about the pro version here