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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.

Oliver Fuhrmann

digitaleheimat

<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Branding with title & logo</li>
<li>Address & contact information with dynamic fields</li>
<li>Opening hours</li>
<li>Google Maps display</li>
<li>Schema.org valid Rich Text Snippets</li>
<li>GEO sitemap with all locations</li>
<li>Infinite locations as custom post type, linkable to any other content</li>
<li>Extensive layout options and custom template support</li>
</ul>
<h4>Two configuration modes</h4>
<p><strong>Standard configuration:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>provides an easy to use interface adding the location information directly into any post</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Advanced features:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Creates locations as instances (custom post type) and lets you just add them to any post (multiple locations per post are possible) </li>
<li>Enables categories for locations</li>
<li>Enables Google Map with all locations via shortcode or function call</li>
</ul>
<h4>Custom post type settings</h4>
<p><strong>“Location” as post type</strong><br />
The plugin comes with a built in post type that only shows the location information.<br />
Useful, if you have a list of locations with now further information necessary.</p>
<p><strong>Enable locations for each avaiable post type</strong><br />
You can enable the location information individually for each post type you have installed in your WordPress site.<br />
Useful, if you want to add location information to existing post types (ie. a contact page, blog posts about locations or events)</p>
<h4>Enable additional fields</h4>
<p>The plugin supports, next to the default address fields, additional SEO relevant fields. All these fields can be activated via the settings</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Type of location</strong> (Schema.org)</li>
<li><strong>Phone</strong> (multiple)</li>
<li><strong>Fax</strong> (multiple)</li>
<li><strong>Email address</strong> (multiple)</li>
<li><strong>Website</strong> (multiple)</li>
<li><strong>Description</strong></li>
<li><strong>Opening hours</strong> (a dynamic fieldset to enter various opening hours)</li>
</ul>
<h4>Layout & Template settings</h4>
<ul>
<li>custom sizes for maps and logos</li>
<li>custom css styles for advanced layouting</li>
</ul>
<p>Additionally, the plugin comes with default templates for the location information and it offers the possibility to override the template in your theme folder.</p>
<p>You can append locations to your theme:</p>
<ul>
<li>automatically via <strong>WordPress filter</strong></li>
<li>manually via a <strong>function call</strong></li>
<li>directly into post content via <strong>shortcode</strong></li>
</ul>
<h4>Multilingual support</h4>
<p>The plugin is fully translatable and comes with following default languages:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>English</strong></li>
<li><strong>German</strong></li>
<li>Send us your translation into another language to make it avaiable for others</li>
</ul>
<p>WordPress Local Seo is developed by <a href="http://www.digitaleheimat.de" rel="nofollow ugc">digitaleheimat GmbH</a></p>


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