Business Hours Indicator

• 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

• » 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