Business Hours

Availability: Free + Pro. Business hours are Free. Pro's Google Places import fills them in automatically when a listing is matched to a Google business.

Each listing can publish opening hours per day, including split shifts - a kitchen open 08:00-12:00 and again 17:00-22:00 is expressible as one day with two ranges.

What it is

A day holds up to three ranges by default. That covers the shapes real businesses actually keep: continuous opening, a lunch break, and the occasional third window. Before 1.5.0 a day held exactly one range, so a business with a midday close had to choose between publishing the morning or the evening.

Hours drive three things:

  • The hours table on the listing page.
  • The open/closed state shown on cards and in search, computed against the site's timezone.
  • Filtering by open-now, where the theme or search surface offers it.

How you use it

As a member - set your hours

On the submission form or Dashboard > Listings > Edit, open the Business Hours section. For each day, either mark it closed or add one to three ranges. To fill the week quickly, set Monday and click Copy Monday to all days or Copy Monday to weekdays, then change any day that differs. A day left empty is treated as unspecified rather than closed, so a listing that has not filled hours in does not advertise itself as permanently shut.

As a site owner - import them

With Pro and Google Places configured, matching a listing to a Google business imports its opening hours, including split shifts. Google sends one period per opening block, and each block becomes its own range rather than overwriting the previous one.

As a developer

Read hours through the normalizer, never straight from post meta:

$hours = wb_listora_normalize_hours( $raw );

Three storage shapes exist in the wild - the canonical list, the older single-range-per-day form, and the current multi-range form - because the format has changed twice and old rows were not rewritten. wb_listora_normalize_hours() is the single place that knows all three and returns one shape. Any reader that skips it will be right on some installs and quietly wrong on others.

Raise the per-day limit with wb_listora_max_hours_slots:

add_filter( 'wb_listora_max_hours_slots', function () {
	return 4;
} );

Storage and every reader honour the new value immediately. The submission form's own inputs are the one part that needs matching work to offer the extra row.

Settings & options

Setting Where Default
Ranges per day wb_listora_max_hours_slots filter 3
Site timezone WordPress Settings > General Site default

Open/closed is computed against the WordPress timezone, so set that correctly before troubleshooting a listing that reads closed when it should be open.

Good to know

  • Importing from a competitor may not carry hours across. Source plugins store hours in their own shapes, and Listora's migrators do not guess at a mapping they cannot verify - an unmapped shape is reported rather than silently dropped or misread. Check hours after a migration.
  • A range that ends before it starts is treated as crossing midnight. 22:00-02:00 is a valid overnight range.

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