Description
WP-Shabbat is a WordPress plugin that will help you and your visitors observe the shabbat.
For more information in hebrew, check out WP-Shabbat.
Features include:
- close the site by setting the Shabbat and holiday enter time in minutes when the minimum is 20 minutes.
- close the site by setting the Shabbat and holiday exit time in temporary minutes from 18 minutes to 72 minutes.
- Ip databse is updated automatically every week. (est. size : 17Mb)
- search engine bots get http header 503.(SEO-Friendly) :
Answer from Google about WP-Shabbat - plugin languages : English,Hebrew,Russian.
- plugin will generate on fly page with your template for visitor to come back later.
- Display popup message when its shabbat or holiday.
- Display one hour countdown before site closes to soft the user termination.
- Add custom messages and images etc, below the plugin default message.
- select which css class/id to hide when site closed.
Notes:
- Shabbat and holiday exit time is temporary minutes that calculated from sunrise to sunset and divided into 12 hours.
- The sunrise and sunset times is calculated for each user by his location.
- Identification place of the user is by its IP address close to 40 km.
- This script uses GeoLite Country from MaxMind (http://www.maxmind.com) which is available under terms of GPL/LGPL
- DB file GeoLiteCity.dat downloaded every week from maxmind servers to plugin directory.
Screenshots
WP-Shabbat Setting Page. 
WP-Shabbat on fly page (with Twenty Thirteen template). 
Confirm of Http header status 503. 
popup announcement messsage. 
js coundown before site close to soft the user termination.
Installation
From your WordPress dashboard
- before u install there make sure with your host that you can download 16mb file and it is not block with php.ini file
- Visit ‘Plugins > Add New’
- Search for ‘WP-Shabbat’
- Activate WP-Shabbat from your Plugins page.
- Visit ‘Setting > WP-Shabbat’ and set the times you want.
From WordPress.org
- Download WP-Shabbat.
- Upload the ‘WP-Shabbat’ directory to your ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory, using your favorite method (ftp, sftp, scp, etc…)
- Activate WP-Shabbat from your Plugins page.
- Visit ‘Setting > WP-Shabbat’ and set the settings you want.
FAQ
- Installation Instructions
-
From your WordPress dashboard
- before u install there make sure with your host that you can download 16mb file and it is not block with php.ini file
- Visit ‘Plugins > Add New’
- Search for ‘WP-Shabbat’
- Activate WP-Shabbat from your Plugins page.
- Visit ‘Setting > WP-Shabbat’ and set the times you want.
From WordPress.org
- Download WP-Shabbat.
- Upload the ‘WP-Shabbat’ directory to your ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory, using your favorite method (ftp, sftp, scp, etc…)
- Activate WP-Shabbat from your Plugins page.
- Visit ‘Setting > WP-Shabbat’ and set the settings you want.
Reviews
5 ліпеня, 2021
BEST PLUGIN FOR SHABBAT CLOSING WEB
1 мая, 2018
תודה רבה על תוסף לשמירת השבת
20 лістапада, 2016
ישר כח
3 верасня, 2016
טוב מאוד יישר כח גדול
Contributors & Developers
“WP-Shabbat” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors
Translate “WP-Shabbat” into your language.
Interested in development?
Browse the code, check out the SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS.
Changelog
2.3
- fixed all notices
- added higher z-index to countdown pop up msg
2.2
- Added dont send email notafication option
- Changed link wp-shabbat css “hidden” to html comment
2.1
- Mail sent twice Repair
2.0
- critical update – fixed PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function download_url()
1.9
- critical update – changed how the database update
1.8
- russian translations added.
- added richtext editor to add custom messages and images etc, below the plugin default message.
- the display of wordpress search box was shut off when site closed.
- new admin page design.
- added sending email to admin about the DB status.
- added user select which css class/id to hide when site closed.
1.7
- fix site not closed in wordpress versions 4+.
1.6
- fix countdown bug ( value was not intgr).
1.5
- fix close site bug (nextupdate value was not intgr).
1.4
- changed update mathod, check every week for new IP DB.
1.3
- added time to 503 page for google bot to come back
1.2
- fix Undefined index: WP-Shabbat bug
- fix undefined constant timestamp bug
1.1
- added popup message test page at admin page
- added closed page css to hide nav menu for few wordpress used classes
- changed few translations
- added admin message option
- fixed headers already sent
1.00
- added countdown before site closes to soft the user termination
- fixed ecndonde problem to datect jewish dates
0.07
- fixed checkbox validate problem
- added footer link option
0.06
- fixed critical update problem
- added popup message feature
0.05
- fixed critical ip DB problem
0.04
- fixed Collision functions
0.03
- closed page set to 503 http like google advise (http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/webmasters/theUs8RCvDg/discussion
and http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/020729.html) - remove bot cloack
0.02
- check if template base files exists