- Highly customizable shortcodes to display your opening times in any format
- Shortcodes to indicate if you are currently open or closed
- Alternate message when you're almost opening or closing
- Shortcodes 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
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
Installing the Business Hours Indicator plugin is very easy:
- Install from the WordPress Dashboard > Plugin page
- Or manually download the plugin and extract to wp-content/plugins/
- Activate the plugin
- Go to Wordpress Dashboard > Settings > Business Hours Indicator
- Enter your location, daily opening hours, and fiddle with more settings if you want
- Use the shortcode
[mbhi location="my location"]
to display the output on pages or posts
- Or use the PHP code
do_shortcode('[mbhi location="my location"]')
to display the output anywhere in your theme
version 2.4.2
- Fix: fixed 2 possible PHP 8.2 warning messages.
version 2.4.1
- Fix: fixed "edit hours" modal height on some sites.
- Other: verify latest WP version.
version 2.4
- Fix: fixed PHP warnings in PHP 8.2.
- Other: modernized code.
- Warning: going to require a minimum version of PHP 7.0 in the future, to align with WordPress.
version 2.3.9
- Other: verify compatibility with WordPress 6.1.
- Other: update internal links.
- Other: readme changes.
version 2.3.8
- Other: verify compatibility with WordPress 6.0.
version 2.3.7
- Fix: fixed a few minor styling issues on the admin settings page.
- Other: verify new WordPress version.
version 2.3.6
- Other: verify new WordPress version.
- Other: update documentation links.
version 2.3.5
- Update: secured the indicator HTML output.
version 2.3.4
- Update: Added Polish translations.
version 2.3.3
- Update: verify WP compatibility and bump version tags.
version 2.3.2
- Added: Estonian translations.
- Update: bumped minimum PHP version to 5.6.
version 2.3.1
- Fix: fixed a bug with "output" and "display" settings in the shortcode.
- Update: verified WP 5.6 compatibility.
version 2.3.0
- Update: Verified WordPress 5.5 compatibility.
- Fix: minor code cleanup.
version 2.2.9
- Added: Hungarian translations.
version 2.2.8
- Added: Catalan translations.
- Update: verified WP 5.4.1.
version 2.2.7
- Added: Latvian language.
- Update: changes to Lithuanian translation of abbreviated months.
- Update: PHP improvement removed deprecated function create_function.
version 2.2.6
- Update: Opening times are now selectable with 5 minute intervals instead of 15-minute intervals.
version 2.2.5
- Fix: fixed a bug in the admin settings screen when location names are numbers.
- Fix: Italian translation typo.
version 2.2.4
- Added: New translations for Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese.
version 2.2.3
- Added: Icelandic language.
version 2.2.2
- Fix: fixed a bug with wrong "open" indication for holidays going past midnight.
version 2.2.1
- Update: better translation compatibility.
- Added: Swiss High German language.
version 2.2.0
- Added: Finnish translations.
version 2.1.9
- Added: Norwegian translations.
version 2.1.8
- Added: Croation translations.
- Added: Lithuanian translations.
version 2.1.7
- Added: added NL_BE language.
- Update: fixed warning for create_function in PHP 7.2.
version 2.1.6
- Enhancements: added a filter 'mbhi_capability' allowing you to change who can edit hours.
version 2.1.5
- Fix: fixed a bug when deleting one or more holidays within the same month.
version 2.1.4
- CSS changes in the backend to support plugins that override WordPress' default style.
version 2.1.3
- Added: added Slovenian language.
version 2.1.2
- Added: added Canadian French and Belgian French language.
version 2.1.1
- Added: Czech language.
- Fix: bugfix in conversion service.
version 2.1.0
- Fix: fixed a bug with is_open and holidays.
version 2.0.9
- Fix: fixed a bug with is_open.
version 2.0.8
- Update: Lists with vacations and specials are now ordered by ascending date.
- Update: Added Danish translations.
version 2.0.7
- Update: added Russian translations.
- Fix: fixed a bug with the indicator and vacations.
version 2.0.6
- New feature: added widget to display content only when closed.
- New feature: added widget to display content only when open.
- Changes: minor style changes.
- Testing: verified the plugin on WP 4.7.5
version 2.0.5
- New feature: easily accessible API for developers.
- New feature: select quartes of an hour.
- Testing: verified the plugin on WP 4.7.4
version 2.0.4
- Fix: if a vacation was today, it wasn't denoted as the current day.
version 2.0.3
- Fix notice: wrap loops to check for arrays.
version 2.0.2
- Fix admin screen bug with dependency fields.
version 2.0.1
- Fixed a bug where some translations weren't working
- Fixed a bug where a vacation was displayed even though the setting was set to false.
- AFTER UPGRADING, PLEASE CHECK IF YOUR WIDGETS ARE STILL INTACT.
version 2.0.0
- Rewritten the core of the plugin to implement features faster.
- Fixed a few edge-case bugs.
- AFTER UPGRADING, PLEASE CHECK IF YOUR WIDGETS ARE STILL INTACT.
Version 1.8.8
- Added Slovak language to translations
- Verified WP 4.7.1 compatibility
Version 1.8.7
- Getting rid of closure in favor of normal function. This disables warnings for some versions of WP.
Version 1.8.6
- Finally added 2 widgets to display (a) your business hours and (b) indication of being currently open/closed.
- UI changes.
Version 1.8.5
- Fixed php warning 'invalid foreach'.
Version 1.8.4
- Added Bulgarian language (special thanks to D. Stoykow)
Version 1.8.3
Version 1.8.2
- Fixed an issue with PHP 5.3/5.4 versions.
Version 1.8.1
- Fixed an issue where some WooCommerce websites had a faulty system status.
Version 1.8.0
- Bugfixes
- Rewritten frontend
- Updated languages
- Added Swedish language
Version 1.7.4
- Bugfix: when you aren't open for a few days, the frontend gave a silent error.
Version 1.7.3
- Small bugfix in admin javascript where users weren't able to add multiple locations without refreshing the page.
version 1.7.2
- Proper support for the shortcodes in widgets.
- Remove array literals to support php version 5.3.
- Update documentation.
- Fix bug with ifopen/ifclosed shortcodes for multiple locations.
version 1.7.1
- Fixed a bug where do_shortcode() doesn't show content.
version 1.7
- Added a help tab with shortcodes info.
- shortcodes can now override dashboard settings via attributes.
- Added various new functionality for displaying opening hours.
Version 1.6
- Bugfix where holidays couldn't be denoted as 'closed'.
Version 1.5.1
- Bugfix between Woocommerce and this plugin.
Version 1.5
- Added more CSS classes for your styling needs.
- Ability to print a consolidated (= shortened) opening hours table.
- Reorganized and added some settings.
Version 1.4
Version 1.3
- Added [mbhi_ifclosed] shortcode
- Added [mbhi_ifopen] shortcode
Version 1.2
MAJOR CHANGE — You'll have to re-enter your settings!
- Added locations
- Added vacation/holiday exception
- Changed settings screen
- Added more settings
- Added a new shortcode to display a location's business hours table
Version 1.1
- Code enhancements
- Approximation: include a different sentence when your business is almost opening/closing.
Version 1.0