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 Profile 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 Profile in your WordPress admin menu. Go ahead and click on it, so you can go to the plugin’s settings page.
The plugin allows you to show your business information in schema.org rich snippet format. This means that search engines like Google can read, understand, and use this information in their search results.
First you need to select your business type. By default, the plugin will use organization. You can change that if you need.
After that you need to provide your business name and address. You can also use Google Maps to show the address.
Simply click on the ‘Retrieve map coordinates’ link and the plugin will fetch coordinates using the address you entered.
You will need to get a Google Maps API Key to use the Google Maps feature. The instructions on how to get one for your website is included in the plugin.
Next, you need to enter your phone number and select the contact page. A contact page can be any page on your WordPress site that has a contact form.
If you do not have a contact form yet, then see our step by step guide on how to create a contact form in WordPress.
You can also add your business email address. But this would mean that you will get more spam on that email address.
Finally, under the ‘Schedule’ section you can select your business hours. Simply check the boxes for the days you are open and then select opening hours.
Don’t forget to click on the save changes button to store your settings.
Showing Business Hours on Your WordPress Website
Business Profile plugin allows you to display opening hours and your business profile in two ways.
The first option is to use the widget. Simply go to Appearance » Widgets page and add the ‘Contact Card’ widget to a sidebar.
Next, check the box next to the items you want to display on your website.
Don’t forget to click on the save button to store your widget settings.
You can now visit your website to see the widget showing your business information and opening hours.
The second option is to use shortcode [contact-card] in any WordPress post or page. Adding it will show your complete business profile.
You can also use the shortcode with attributes to show particular items from your business profile. For example:
[contact-card show_opening_hours=1]
This shortcode will only show opening hours for your business. For a full list of shortcodes you can visit the plugin’s website.
We hope this article helped you add your business hours on your WordPress site. You may also want to see our expert pick of 24 must have WordPress plugins for business websites.
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Another interesting article. I every day use wordpress, know php, css etc. but never use schema.org rules. Now it is easy, thanks!
Any plug-ins that allow for multiple hours open, ex: 8 am-noon, 5pm-9pm? Restaurants for example could use this. Or businesses that are closed for lunch, or for a certain time a day, that might change depending on the day?
Hi, there is an un wanted link in mah word pres site & i can’t abe toremove it. it is causing bugging which often post some unwanted adds or get the landing page to some other website. plz help how to remove the same
Hi,
I’m using this plugin in and like it…but it seems like editors can not access it?!
Can I change this? Somewhere in the plugin code?
(I’m just a copy-paste-programmer but maybe someone has a good idea what I can do)
Great and useful plugin. i must try with.
Hi,
I read another value article on wpbeginner. Thanks for introducing this plugin to use business hours in wordpress
Regards
shajeer
Does it show up on search engines in any special way?
Search engines can index this information but they will not display it in any special way. For that you may want to use Google for Business, which allows you to add your business information to Google.
Hi, Nice plugin. Do we have option to enter holidays also in this plugin. Those days should be marked closed.