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<p>Forge Business Info is a lightweight WordPress plugin that displays your business hours, address, and phone number in a clean, accessible widget. It automatically generates LocalBusiness JSON-LD schema markup so search engines like Google can surface your business info in local search results.</p>
<p><strong>Features:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Regular weekly business hours with split-hour support (e.g. closed for lunch)</li>
<li>Holiday and special hours that override regular hours</li>
<li>Live Open / Closed / Closing Soon status indicator</li>
<li>Click-to-call phone link (mobile-friendly)</li>
<li>Google Maps directions link from your address</li>
<li>Automatic LocalBusiness JSON-LD structured data</li>
<li>Gutenberg block + shortcodes for flexible placement</li>
<li>Three display modes: Inherit (uses your theme), Preset styles, or Custom colors</li>
<li>Four built-in style presets: Card, Minimal, Dark, Compact</li>
<li>Timezone-aware status calculation</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>No bloat. No SaaS. No upsells.</strong> Enter your info, drop in the shortcode or block, done.</p>
<h4>Shortcodes</h4>
<ul>
<li><code>[forge_business_info]</code> — Full widget with all sections</li>
<li><code>[forge_hours]</code> — Hours table only</li>
<li><code>[forge_location]</code> — Address and map link only</li>
<li><code>[forge_status]</code> — Open/Closed badge only</li>
</ul>
<h4>Schema Markup</h4>
<p>The plugin automatically outputs LocalBusiness JSON-LD in your page head, including:</p>
<ul>
<li>Business name, address, phone, and site URL</li>
<li>Opening hours for each day of the week</li>
<li>Special/holiday hours with validFrom/validThrough dates</li>
<li>Split hours for businesses with lunch breaks</li>
</ul>
<p>This structured data helps Google display your business hours, address, and phone number directly in search results and Google Maps.</p>


Forge Business Info

Display your business hours, location, and contact info with automatic LocalBusiness schema markup. Lightweight, no bloat.

Wombat Plugins

studiowombat

<ul>
<li>Use Blocks or shortcodes to display your opening times in any format anywhere on your website</li>
<li>Shortcodes & block to indicate if you are currently open or closed</li>
<li>Alternate message when you’re almost opening or closing</li>
<li>Shortcodes or block to display something only when you are open or closed</li>
<li>Easily style everything</li>
<li>4 widgets (does the same as the shortcodes)</li>
<li>Supports Vacations</li>
<li>Supports ‘special dates’ with different opening times (e.g: holidays)</li>
<li>Supports countdown until your next opening/closing time</li>
<li>Supports multiple locations</li>
<li>Developer API (more info below)</li>
<li>Frontend translated in: Dutch, German, English, Greek, Spanish, Italian, French, Bulgarian, Swedish, Danish,<br />
Slovakian, Slovenian, Lithuanian, Croatian, Russian, Czech, Norwegian, Finnish, Icelandic</li>
<li>beautiful & user-friendly settings screens for you, or your client, to work in</li>
</ul>
<p>Check out a complete list of features below.</p>
<h4>Quick links</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://demo.studiowombat.com/bhi-demos/?utm_source=wporg&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=readme" rel="nofollow ugc">» Examples</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.studiowombat.com/knowledge-base/?utm_source=wporg&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=readme" rel="nofollow ugc">» Documentation</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.studiowombat.com/plugin/business-hours-indicator/?utm_source=wporg&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=readme" rel="nofollow ugc">» Pro Version</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>Requirements</h4>
<ul>
<li>PHP 7.0 or higher</li>
<li>WordPress 3.7 or higher</li>
</ul>
<h4>General features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Shortcode to display business hours</li>
<li>Widget to display business hours</li>
<li>Shortcode to display if you’re currently open/closed</li>
<li>Widget to display if you’re currently open/closed</li>
<li>Shortcode to display content only when you’re open</li>
<li>Shortcode to display content only when you’re closed</li>
<li>Choose your prefered time zone</li>
<li>Display times in 12 or 24 hour format</li>
<li>Enter multiple locations for more businesses (up to 3 in the free version)</li>
<li>Include special hours such as holidays</li>
<li>Include vacation hours</li>
<li>Highlight the current day</li>
<li>Frontend translated in: Dutch, German, English, Greek, Spanish, Catalan, Italian, French, Bulgarian, Swedish, Danish,<br />
Slovakian, Slovenian, Lithuanian, Croatian, Russian, Czech, Norwegian, Finnish, Icelandic, Latvian, Hungarian.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Displaying opening times</h4>
<ul>
<li>Show the opening hours in a table</li>
<li>Show the opening hours inline</li>
<li>Consolidate the output: group days with the same opening hours</li>
<li>Show/hide holiday hours</li>
<li>Show/hide vacation hours</li>
<li>Highlight the current day</li>
</ul>
<h4>Currently open/closed Indication</h4>
<ul>
<li>Edit the “we’re currently open” message</li>
<li>Edit the “we’re currently closed” message</li>
<li>Include the current time in the output</li>
<li>Include the current day in the output</li>
<li>Add an opening/closing soon warning like “hurry, we’re closing in 35 minutes”</li>
</ul>
<h4>Limitations</h4>
<p>The free version has some limitations you should be aware of. Our pro version (features below) fixes those.</p>
<ul>
<li>The free version does not work with caching mechanisms.</li>
<li>It’s not possible to add a break in opening hours.</li>
<li>You can add up to 3 locations in the free version.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Developer API</h4>
<p>Use the plugin anywhere in WordPress by using the following calls:</p>
<ul>
<li><code>MBHILITE()->is_open('location name')</code> returns true if the location is currently open. False otherwise.</li>
<li><code>MBHILITE()->is_closed('location name')</code> returns true if the location is currently closed. False otherwise.</li>
<li><code>MBHILITE()->get_opening_hours('location name')</code> returns an array of objects containing the location’s opening hours.</li>
<li><code>MBHILITE()->get_specials('location name')</code> returns an array of objects containing the location’s special opening hours.</li>
<li><code>MBHILITE()->get_vacations('location name')</code> returns an array of objects containing the location’s vacations.</li>
</ul>
<p>More documentation coming soon.</p>
<h4>PRO FEATURES</h4>
<ul>
<li>Supports caching</li>
<li>SEO features</li>
<li>Enter unlimited multiple locations for more businesses</li>
<li>Multiple time slots/day for when you close at noon</li>
<li>Woocommerce support: disable orders + hide “add to cart” buttons when you are closed.</li>
<li>‘Message builder’ allows you to add dynamic codes to build any message you like. A few examples:
<ul>
<li>Today is March 8, we’re open from 9AM to 5PM.</li>
<li>It’s 7:12PM, we’re closed. We open again on Thursday, in 7 hours and 45 minutes.</li>
<li>Hurry, we’re closing in 13 minutes!</li>
<li>..And much more!</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Only show today’s opening times</li>
<li>Seasonal hours</li>
<li>Set how many minutes or hours in advance to show “opening/closing soon” message.</li>
<li>Customize output with line breaks & separators</li>
<li>Premium support</li>
<li>Receive updates & bugfixes</li>
<li>Show abbreviated days in outputs</li>
<li>More flexibility</li>
<li>Priority feauture requests</li>
<li>And more..!</li>
</ul>
<p>Find out more about the <a href="https://www.studiowombat.com/plugin/business-hours-indicator/?utm_source=wporg&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=readme" rel="nofollow ugc">pro version here</a></p>


Business Hours Indicator

Display opening hours and if you're currently open/closed, with countdown to next opening. Show or hide content only when open/closed & more!

Forge Business Info vs Business Hours Indicator