Show/Hide Content at Set Time
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This plugin is maintained on GitHub , so feel free to use the repository for reporting issues, submitting feature requests and submitting pull requests.
This plugin provides shortcodes allowing you to display content or hide content at given dates and times. You can also combine the two to show some content at a given time, and then hide it at another time.
There’s also a separate shortcode if you want to repeat a schedule for showing and hiding content – for example to only show information about a radio show while it’s on air.
Usage – single use
To show or hide content at one point in time, you can use the [time-restrict] shortcode. For example:
[time-restrict off="2015-01-01"]Please enter our competition[/time-restrict] [time-restrict on="2015-01-01"]Sorry, this competition has closed[/time-restrict]
If you do not enter a time with the date, it will default to 00:00:00, so in the above example, the first message will show up until 2015-01-01 00:00:00 (i.e. until the first second of 2015) and the second message will show up from 2015-01-01 00:00:00 (i.e. from the first second of 2015)
You can use any date or time string supported by PHP , such as:
[time-restrict off="September 10th, 2014"]Will display until 09/10/2014[/time-restrict] [time-restrict off="2014-09-10"]Will display until 09/10/2014[/time-restrict] [time-restrict off="10-Septmber 2014"]Will display until 09/10/2014[/time-restrict] [time-restrict on="2014/09/10 18:00:00"]Will show after 09/10/2014 at 6pm[/time-restrict]
You can also combine starting and ending dates for the same piece of content. So if you want some content to appear between January 1st and January 10th, you could do the following:
[time-restrict on="2015-01-01" off="2015-01-11"] This is a limited time offer [/time-restrict]
Usage – repeating schedule
To show and hide content on a recurring schedule, you can use the [time-restrict-repeat] shortcode. Your options are a daily, weekly, monthly or annual schedule.
A daily schedule takes the following form:
[time-restrict-repeat type="daily" ontime="09:00:00" offtime="17:00:00"] Working 9 to 5 [/time-restrict-repeat]
Note that you can also cross over midnight, so to only show something from 10PM to 5AM, you can use:
[time-restrict-repeat type="daily" ontime="22:00:00" offtime="05:00:00"] For the night owls [/time-restrict-repeat]
