Display Hebrew dates, Parasha, zmanim and an interactive monthly Hebrew calendar via shortcodes and Elementor widgets.

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Jewish Date

Jewish Date is a small plugin to show the Jewish date on your WordPress site.

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<p>HB Jewish Calendar provides accurate Hebrew date information, weekly Torah portions (Parasha), zmanim (Jewish times), and a fully client-side monthly Hebrew calendar. Calculations are performed in the browser using the bundled ‘Hebcal’ library.</p>
<p>Key capabilities:</p>
<ul>
<li>Shortcodes to embed a monthly Hebrew calendar, today’s Hebrew date, current weekday, Parasha and individual zmanim values (with optional minute offset).</li>
<li>Elementor widgets mirroring the shortcodes, grouped under the “Hebrew Calendar” category, with style and prefix controls.</li>
<li>Admin settings to select a city (used for zmanim) and toggle Parasha Israel/Diaspora behavior.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Shortcodes:
<ul>
<li><code>jcal_heb_calendar</code> — Embed a monthly Hebrew calendar with holidays.</li>
<li><code>jcal_today_hdate</code> — Show today’s Hebrew date.</li>
<li><code>jcal_day_in_week</code> — Show the current weekday name.</li>
<li><code>jcal_parasha</code> — Show this week’s Parasha (Israel / Diaspora controlled in settings).</li>
<li><code>jcal_zmanim</code> — Show a specific zman (Jewish time); supports <code>type</code> and <code>offset</code> attributes.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Elementor widgets for the same features (category: “Hebrew Calendar”): <code>Hebrew Calendar</code>, <code>Today hebrew date</code>, <code>Parashat hashavua</code>, <code>Zmanim</code>, <code>Day in week</code>.</li>
<li>Settings page (<code>JCal Settings</code>) to choose city for zmanim and set Parasha display (Israel or Diaspora).</li>
<li>Localized: supports both Hebrew and English.</li>
<li>All date & holiday calculations are performed client-side using the bundled ‘Hebcal’ library.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Usage</h3>
<p>Shortcodes:</p>
<ul>
<li><code>[jcal_heb_calendar]</code> — Renders the monthly Hebrew calendar. The calendar also displays holidays.</li>
<li><code>[jcal_today_hdate]</code> — Outputs today’s Hebrew date (localized to site language).</li>
<li><code>[jcal_day_in_week]</code> — Outputs the current weekday name (localized).</li>
<li><code>[jcal_parasha]</code> — Outputs the current Parasha. Use settings to choose Israel or Diaspora version.</li>
<li><code>[jcal_zmanim type="<type>" offset="<minutes>"]</code> — Outputs a zman value. <code>type</code> is one of:
<ul>
<li><code>chatzotNight</code>, <code>alotHaShachar</code>, <code>alotHaShachar72</code>, <code>neitzHaChama</code>, <code>sunrise</code>,</li>
<li><code>sofZmanShma</code>, <code>sofZmanShmaMGA</code>, <code>sofZmanShmaMGA16Point1</code>, <code>sofZmanTfilla</code>, <code>sofZmanTfillaMGA</code>,</li>
<li><code>sofZmanTfillaMGA16Point1</code>, <code>chatzot</code>, <code>minchaGedola</code>, <code>minchaGedolaMGA</code>, <code>minchaKetana</code>,</li>
<li><code>minchaKetanaMGA</code>, <code>plagHaMincha</code>, <code>sunset</code>, <code>shkiah</code>, <code>beinHaShmashos</code>, <code>dusk</code>,</li>
<li><code>tzeit</code>, <code>misheyakir</code>.</li>
<li><code>offset</code> is an integer number of minutes to add/subtract.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p>Elementor widgets: find the “Hebrew Calendar” category in Elementor; widgets provide style controls, optional prefixes and allow inserting the same shortcodes as elements.</p>
<h3>Settings Page</h3>
<p>Access: <code>WP Admin <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> JCal Settings</code> (menu entry appears for users with <code>manage_options</code>).</p>
<ul>
<li>City: choose a city (used for zmanim calculations).</li>
<li>Parasha Display: choose <code>Israel</code> or <code>Diaspora</code> to control how the weekly Parasha is determined.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Localization</h3>
<p>Translation files are included in the <code>languages/</code> directory. The plugin uses the text domain <code>hb-jewish-calendar</code>.</p>
<h3>Credits</h3>
<p>Developed by HBCode.</p>
<p>This plugin bundles a minified build of the Hebcal library (js/hebcal.min.js) for client-side Hebrew calendar calculations:<br />
https://github.com/hebcal/hebcal-es6</p>
<p>Hebcal is provided under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). See Hebcal for details and privacy policy: https://www.hebcal.com/home/privacy-policy</p>
<h3>Support</h3>
<p>For support, contact the developer.</p>
<h3>License</h3>
<p>This plugin is licensed under GPL v3 or later: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html</p>


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