Business Hours & Holiday Schedule Manager

Business Hours & Holiday Schedule Manager is a business hours plugin for WordPress that shows your customers exactly when you are open. Set your weekly opening hours, add holiday and special-date hours, and display a live Open Now / Closed badge on any page. It also adds Schema.org opening hours markup so search engines can read your hours.

It suits local shops, restaurants, cafés, clinics, salons, agencies and any other business with set opening times. No coding is needed, and the plugin makes no external requests.

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What you can do with it

• Build a weekly opening hours schedule with a switch for each day
• Add up to 4 time slots per day for lunch breaks and split shifts
• Show a live open now / closed status badge that refreshes without reloading the page
• Set holiday hours and special dates: closed all day, or custom hours, for one day, a date range, or every year
• Use your own timezone, so the status never depends on the server clock
• Output JSON-LD (business type, address, phone, openingHours and holiday hours) for search engines
• Place your hours with a Gutenberg block, a classic widget, a shortcode or an Elementor widget
• Choose a full weekly table, a one-line today’s hours view, or just the status badge
• Optionally show a closed notice bar across your site while you are closed
• Rename the Open and Closed labels and choose 12-hour or 24-hour time

Weekly schedule builder

Toggle each day on or off and set its opening and closing times. Quick-fill presets (Mon–Fri 9–5, Mon–Sat 10–6, 7 days 9–9) set up a standard week in one click, and “Apply to all days” or “Copy to Mon–Fri” saves retyping when several days share the same hours.

Live open/closed status badge

Visitors see whether you are open right now and when that changes next, for example “Closes at 5:00 PM”. The badge is rendered on the server and refreshed with a lightweight AJAX request. The refresh interval is 60 seconds by default and can be turned off in Settings.

Holiday and special dates manager

Holidays always override the weekly schedule. Mark a date as closed, or give it reduced hours such as Christmas Eve 10:00–14:00. Add an end date for a multi-day closure such as a winter break, and switch on “Repeat every year” so you only enter Christmas once. Search the list, filter by month and page through large lists.

Schema.org opening hours markup

The plugin prints a single JSON-LD block with your business name, type, URL, phone number, address, price range, logo and openingHours, built from your weekly schedule. Upcoming holidays are added as special opening hours. Fill in Settings → Business Details and the markup is ready, with no code. Search engines may use structured data like this to understand your business. You can also change the type with a filter, or turn the markup off.

Closed notice bar

Turn it on under Settings → Closed Notice Bar to show a thin bar at the top of every page while you are closed, for example “We’re currently closed. Opens tomorrow at 9:00 AM”. It prints nothing while you are open, is off by default, and can be dismissed by the visitor for the rest of their browser session.

Ways to display your hours

• Gutenberg block: “Business Hours”, with a live preview in the editor
• Classic widget: add it from Appearance → Widgets
• Shortcode: [webtend_business_hours], [webtend_business_hours display="today"] or [webtend_business_hours display="status"]
• Elementor widget: appears automatically when Elementor 3.5 or later is active

Works with block themes, classic themes and page builders. Front-end styles and scripts only load on pages that show your hours.

Built for speed, accessibility and privacy

• No jQuery: plain JavaScript only
• No external requests, tracking, or third-party services
• Accessible markup: the status badge is announced to screen readers, hours tables use proper row headers, and admin controls have visible keyboard focus
• Translation-ready with a .pot file included
• Removes its options and database table when you delete the plugin

For developers

• webtend_bh_output_schema: return false to skip the JSON-LD block, for example on specific pages
• webtend_bh_schema_type: change LocalBusiness to another Schema.org type such as Restaurant
• webtend_bh_schema_data: add or change properties such as address, telephone or geo
• webtend_bh_show_notice_bar: return false to hide the closed-notice bar on specific pages
• Front-end CSS custom properties (--wbh-today-color, --wbh-font-size, --wbh-radius, --wbh-row-padding, --wbh-badge-radius) for theming without overrides