Beginner's Guide on How to Add Business Hours in WordPress

Do you want to display your business hours on your WordPress site? Displaying your open hours on your website can help customers make an appointment or plan their visit accordingly. In this article, we will show you how to add your business opening hours in WordPress.

First thing you need to do is install and activate the Business Opening Hours plugin. (For more details, see our step by step guide on how to install a WordPress plugin)

Upon activation, the plugin will add a new menu item labeled Business Hours in your WordPress admin menu. Go ahead and click on it, so you can go to the plugin's settings page.

On the settings page, you need start by choosing a timezone and a date format. You can choose to display time in 24 hours or 12 hours format.

After that you can enter opening and closing hours for each day. Simply click on the time field next to a day, and it will show you a dropdown to select hours.

For the days when you are closed for business, you can simply select closed or enter any text you want.

Next, you can choose a background color and text color to highlight the current day.

Below the colors field the plugin will show you a generated shortcode. You will need this shortcode if you want to display your business hours in a post or page on your site.

Don't forget to click on the save changes button to store your settings.

Showing Business Hours on Your WordPress Website

Business Opening Hours plugin allows you to display opening hours in two ways. You can copy the shortcode generated on the plugin's settings page and paste it in a WordPress post or a page.

The second option is to use the widget. Simply go to Appearance » Widgets page and add the Business Hours widget to a sidebar.

Click on the save button to store your Widget settings.

You can now visit your website to see the business opening hours table in action.

We hope this article helped you add your business hours on your WordPress site. You may also want to take a look at our hand-picked list of the 5 best contact form plugins for WordPress.

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