By bobbingwideUK tides – heights and times Plugin
Tide heights and times for UK ports and harbours
uk-tides displays tide times and heights for a particular location in the UK.
The information that is displayed is obtained from the RSS feed for tidetimes.org.uk (eg https://www.tidetimes.org.uk/chichester-harbour-entrance-tide-times.rss )
or tidetimes.co.uk ( eg https://www.tidetimes.co.uk/rss/chichester-harbour-entrance-tide-times ).
The data is cached until midnight.
This plugin implements a block called UK tides ( uk-tides/uk-tides ).
- It’s much easier to use than the shortcode.
- It uses the functionality that was previously implemented as the [bw_tides] shortcode.
- The block is not dependent upon the oik plugin.
The syntax for the [bw_tides] shortcode is:
[bw_tides
tideurl=”https://www.tidetimes.org.uk/chichester-harbour-entrance-tide-times.rss|other – RSS feed URL for location”
store=”1|store key – unique key for caching result”]
Examples:
[bw_tides] with no parameters will display the tide times and heights for Chichester Harbour Entrance. The information will be cached in store=1 until midnight.
[bw_tides store=bw_tides_pompey tideurl=”https://www.tidetimes.org.uk/portsmouth”] will display the tide times and heights obtained from
https://www.tidetimes.org.uk/portsmouth-tide-times.rss and cache the result in a store named ‘bw_tides_pompey’
Note: Using the store parameter allows you to display tide time and height information for more than one location.
Examples:
If you prefer you can use tidetimes.co.uk as the source for tidal information.
[bw_tides tideurl=”https://www.tidetimes.co.uk/rss/chichester-harbour-entrance-tide-times”]
Screenshots
Example UK tides block - for Chichester Harbour (Entrance) from tidetimes.org.uk
Sample output for Portsmouth, Hants - from tidetimes.org.uk
Sample output for Portsmouth, Hants - from tidetimes.co.uk
FAQ
- Upload the contents of the uk-tides plugin to the `/wp-content/plugins/uk-tides’ directory
- Activate the uk-tides plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
- Whenever you want to produce UK Tide times and heights for the current date use the UK tides block.
Note: This is not necessary when you use the block, the tideurl is automatically created based on your selection of Site and Port.
- Visit www.tidetimes.org.uk,
- click on the location of your choice,
- click on the RSS feed icon,
- copy the URL from the feed
eg for Brighton Marina the value for tideurl is https://www.tidetimes.org.uk/brighton-marina-tide-times.rss
OR
- Visit www.tidetimes.co.uk,
- click on the location of your choice,
- click on the RSS feed icon,
- copy the URL from the feed
eg for Brighton Marina the value for tideurl is https://www.tidetimes.co.uk/rss/brighton-marina-tide-times
uk-tides currently only works for the UK and Ireland since the information is obtained from https://www.tidetimes.org.uk or https://www.tidetimes.co.uk
If you can point us to a resource for other locations then it should be possible to develop a very similar solution.
Yes. See https://www.tidetimes.org.uk/widgets or https://www.tidetimes.co.uk/widgets
You may find the output harder to (re)style.
If you want to read more about the oik plugins then please visit the
oik plugin“OIK – OIK Information Kit”
Changelog
3.2.0
- Changed: Updated wp-scripts #23
- Changed: Support PHP 8.1 and PHP 8.2 #27
- Tested: With WordPress 6.4-RC3 and WordPress Multisite
- Tested: With Gutenberg 16.9.0
- Tested: With PHP 8.0, PHP 8.1 and PHP 8.2
- Tested: With PHPUnit 9.6