Nuage Creative

<p>Nuage Business Calendar is a lightweight, clean, and easy-to-use business calendar plugin developed by Nuage Creative. It allows you to display a simple calendar on your website and mark specific days (such as regular holidays, business events, or special days) with elegant colored circles.</p>
<p>No complex booking systems, no heavy CSS—just a beautiful, minimalist calendar.</p>
<h3>🌟 Key Features</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Simple Click-to-Mark Interface</strong>: Just click on a date in the admin panel to toggle a circle.</li>
<li><strong>Customizable Styles</strong>: Create up to 10 different circle styles with your own labels (e.g., Red for “Holidays”, Blue for “Events”) and custom colors.</li>
<li><strong>National Holiday Import</strong>: Instantly import public holidays for specific countries (Japan, US, UK, France, Canada, etc.) via JSON files.</li>
<li><strong>Flexible Shortcode</strong>: Easily display the calendar anywhere using the <code>[nbcal_calendar]</code> shortcode. You can also add a custom title like <code>[nbcal_calendar title="Business Day Calendar"]</code>.</li>
<li><strong>Smart Navigation Limits</strong>: Prevent users from clicking too far into the past or future by setting navigation limits (e.g., allow navigating only 3 months ahead).</li>
<li><strong>Legend Toggle</strong>: Choose whether to show or hide the legend below the calendar. Even if hidden, hover tooltips will show the label name!</li>
<li><strong>Multilingual Ready</strong>: Fully internationalized. English, Japanese, and French translations are supported.</li>
</ul>


Nuage Business Calendar

A minimalist business calendar that highlights days with elegant colored circles. Perfect for business days, regular holidays, and events.

bitkit

<p>Bitkit Opening Hours + Holidays lets you manage business hours, holidays and vacation periods for a single location and display them via shortcode, Gutenberg block or classic widget – including an optional “Now open?” badge and JSON-LD structured data for search engines.</p>
<h4>What this plugin does</h4>
<ul>
<li>Define weekly opening hours (Mon–Sun) with multiple time windows per day.</li>
<li>Add special days (e.g. public holidays, one-off openings/closings).</li>
<li>Add vacation periods with custom hours or “closed all day”.</li>
<li>Show a “Now open / Now closed” badge with human-readable “next change” text.</li>
<li>Output JSON-LD (Schema.org) for <code>openingHoursSpecification</code> and special opening hours to help search engines display correct business hours.</li>
<li>Render via:
<ul>
<li>Gutenberg block “Opening Hours”</li>
<li>Classic widget “Opening Hours”</li>
<li>Shortcodes for hours, badge and special days.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p>Free version: one global location (one set of hours) per site.<br />
A Pro add-on for multiple locations and extended features is planned, but the free plugin is fully usable on its own.</p>
<h4>Key features</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Single global location (Free)</strong> – one central timetable for your business.</li>
<li><strong>Weekly opening hours</strong>
<ul>
<li>Multiple time windows per day (e.g. 09:00–12:00 and 13:30–18:00).</li>
<li>Mark days as closed.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Special days / holidays</strong>
<ul>
<li>Override normal hours for specific calendar days.</li>
<li>Mark as closed or set custom hours.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Vacation periods</strong>
<ul>
<li>Configure longer ranges (e.g. company vacation).</li>
<li>Closed or limited hours during the range.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Display options</strong>
<ul>
<li>Show/hide “Now open?” badge.</li>
<li>Show/hide “Next change” text (“closes in 2 hours”, …).</li>
<li>Show/hide closed days in the weekly grid.</li>
<li>Choose time and date formats (PHP date/time format).</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Views</strong>
<ul>
<li><strong>Grid view</strong> – full weekly overview.</li>
<li><strong>Today view</strong> – only show today’s opening hours.</li>
<li><strong>Compact view</strong> – badge + short line of text (for tight spaces, sidebars, footers).</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Structured data</strong>
<ul>
<li>Outputs Schema.org JSON-LD for <code>LocalBusiness</code> with weekly and special opening hours.</li>
<li>Uses your site title and home URL by default.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Editor integrations</strong>
<ul>
<li>Gutenberg block with inspector controls for view, badge, “next change”, JSON-LD and optional CTA link.</li>
<li>Classic widget for legacy themes.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Translations</strong>
<ul>
<li>Ships with initial translations: de_DE, de_CH, fr_FR, it_IT, es_ES, nl_NL, da_DK, fi, sv_SE, nb_NO, cs_CZ, pl_PL, pt_PT, ru_RU, ja, zh_CN.</li>
<li>Fully ready for translate.wordpress.org.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h3>Shortcodes</h3>
<p>All shortcodes automatically use the global settings from <strong>Settings <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> Opening Hours</strong>.</p>
<h4>Main output (grid view)</h4>
<pre><code>[bkohh_opening_hours]  
</code></pre>
<p>Renders the weekly grid with your current settings.</p>
<p>Optional attributes:</p>
<ul>
<li><code>timezone</code> – override configured timezone (e.g. <code>timezone="Europe/Zurich"</code>).</li>
<li><code>format_time</code> – override time format (<code>H:i</code>, <code>g:i A</code>, …).</li>
<li><code>format_date</code> – override date format for any dates that are shown.</li>
<li><code>jsonld</code> – <code>1</code> (default) to append JSON-LD, <code>0</code> to disable.</li>
</ul>
<h4>“Now open?” badge</h4>
<pre><code>[bkohh_open_badge]
</code></pre>
<p>Outputs a compact block with:</p>
<ul>
<li>Badge: “Now open” / “Now closed”.</li>
<li>Optional “next change” text (e.g. “closes in 45 min”).</li>
<li>Optional CTA link (label + URL) configured via shortcode or block/widget.</li>
</ul>
<p>Respects the timezone, formats and display options from the settings.</p>
<h4>Upcoming special days</h4>
<pre><code>[bkohh_special_days]
</code></pre>
<p>Shows a small list of upcoming special days/holidays.</p>
<p>Useful attributes:</p>
<ul>
<li><code>limit</code> – maximum number of items to show (default: <code>5</code>).</li>
<li><code>empty_text</code> – text to display if there are no upcoming special days.</li>
<li><code>timezone</code>, <code>format_date</code>, <code>format_time</code> – overrides for date/time output.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Grouped weekly hours</h4>
<pre><code>[bkohh_grouped_hours]
</code></pre>
<p>Groups days with identical hours into ranges (e.g. “Mon–Fri 09:00–18:00, Sat 10:00–14:00”).<br />
Respects the global display settings (badge, next change, closed days).</p>


Bitkit Opening Hours & Holidays

Manage and display business opening hours, holidays and vacation periods with shortcodes, a Gutenberg block, a widget and JSON-LD structured data.

Nuage Business Calendar vs Bitkit Opening Hours & Holidays