We’re Open! free WordPress plugin
Description
We’re Open! free WordPress plugin
Control all aspects of your business’ opening hours with this very easy management tool with multiple display options and conditional text while open or closed with renewed content upon status changes. This plugin offers a high degree of customization and can be placed almost anywhere using a shortcode or widget.
Features:
Shortcode and Widget to display your opening hours in a wide variety of formats
Responsive interface to quickly set regular opening hours separate from special opening hours for public holidays
Covid-19 Update – Set a date range for a temporary closure of your business
Set up to 3 groups of opening times per day
Set 24 hour opening times
Consolidation of hours with options for:
Just weekdays,
Just the weekend,
Separate weekdays and weekend,
Full consolidation
Very high level of customization such as:
Separator characters,
Extensive day and time formatting,
Prefix and suffix for each group of times,
Local language day names with option to overwrite,
Consolidation words,
Hiding of closed days,
Start of week to any day including the current day,
Regular or special opening hours only,
Separate day/date formatting for regular and special opening hours,
Date ranges, and much more…
Option to refresh opening hours or reload the page at the start of each day
HTML classes to give high-level of design customization (e.g. past, today, tomorrow, future, special)
Conditional shortcode to show content only when open or closed with automatic data refreshing or page reload
Conditional text with variables (e.g. show text or HTML relevant to current open status)
Structured Data (Schema.org) support to give accurate information about opening hours to search engines and assist with SEO
Populate current opening hours from Google Business (Google API and Place ID are required)
A comprehensive and free plugin with no upgrades for additional functionality
Demo:
We have a comprehensive showcase of the shortcode’s design and functionality on our Demonstration Website.
Recommendations:
If populating from Google, I would recommend setting your business in Google and finding your Place ID.
And optionally, create a Google Billing Account to receive your substantial free API Request allocation.
This is just my second public plugin and all comments are very welcome. It is a sister plugin to Reviews and Rating – Google Business.
Getting started with Google API
In order to synchronize your opening hours with Google, you will need a Google API Key and to locate your Place ID
Google API Key Guidelines
Place ID Finder