Opening hours

Opening hours for WordPress, with holidays and exceptions, kept in one place

Hours tend to be written down three times on a site — in the footer, on the contact page, in a box on the home page — and on the 24th of December all three are wrong. A schedule keeps them in one place. You enter the week once, add the days that differ, tick the public holidays, and every block that shows hours reads from there.

The week

One line per weekday, as many spans as you need
Spans across midnight for a bar or a night shift
Leave a day blank and it shows as closed
Separate schedules for a shop, an office, tours or a radio show
Two weeks ahead, previewed exactly as visitors get them

The exceptions

Closures and special hours, for one day or several
A note that shows next to it on the site
Repeat yearly for things like the summer break
Public holidays for Switzerland, Germany and Austria, ticked or not
Easter and the days that hang off it, worked out locally

On the pages

A block that shows the full week, a single open-or-closed line, or a compact one-liner
The coming exceptions listed underneath
The Next date block for the next tour or show
Worked out in the browser, so a cached page is still right
Structured data, so search engines read your hours too

One schedule, many places

The footer, the contact page and the template agree.

Blocks no longer hold hours of their own: under Times from they point at a schedule. Point the footer, the contact page and a template at the same one, and an edit in the module shows up in all three at once. Next date reads the same schedule and names the next time it applies.

Holidays without a lookup

Nobody has to remember Whit Monday.

Choose a country and its holidays appear in a list, with the nationwide ones already checked. Moveable feasts are calculated on the site, year after year, without asking an outside service. Your own days go on top — stocktaking, a half day on Christmas Eve, three weeks in summer — and with Every year they come back by themselves.

Right at the moment of the visit

Cached pages go stale. Open now does not.

Each page ships with the schedule, and the open-or-closed line is decided in the visitor's own browser at the moment they look. That is why the block can say Closed on a Sunday afternoon even when the page itself was cached on Friday. With the site set up as a local business, the address in the structured data comes with the regular week and the exceptions of the next sixty days.