Business Hours Indicator Plugin

• 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

Installing the Business Hours Indicator plugin is very easy:

1. Install from the WordPress Dashboard > Plugin page
2. Or manually download the plugin and extract to wp-content/plugins/
3. Activate the plugin
4. Go to WordPress Dashboard > Settings > Business Hours Indicator
5. Enter your location, daily opening hours, and fiddle with more settings if you want
6. Use the shortcode [mbhi location="my location"] to display the output on pages or posts
7. Or use the PHP code do_shortcode('[mbhi location="my location"]') to display the output anywhere in your theme

1. 

   Various examples of what this plugin can do.

2. 

   Settings screen.

3. 

   Enter opening times for a location.

4. 

   Example of how it could look like on the frontend.

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

• Addition upon 1.8.2

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

• Small bugfixes

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

• Initial version