Getting started
Enter the weekly hours
- In the WordPress admin, go to Dirigible → Hours
- Under Weekly hours, fill Opens and Closes for each day you’re open
- Leave a closed day empty
- Select Save Settings
For a lunch break, closing after midnight, or holiday hours, see Set your hours.
“Today” follows the timezone under Settings → General.
Show them on the site
On the same page, scroll to Display (or pick it in the list of sections beside the cards):
- Footer Display — a list in the theme footer (Every Day or Open Days)
- Nav Display — a short line at the end of the header menu (Hours Today or Next Opening)
- Utility Nav Display — the same short line in the utility bar, plus Inline Hours
All three default to None. You can turn on more than one. Select Save Settings when you’re done: the hours and the display choices save together.
Utility Nav Display only appears if Utility Nav → Enable is on under Appearance → Customize → Header & Menus.
What visitors see
- Every Day — all seven days, starting on Week Starts On. Closed days read “Closed Monday”. Holiday and special hours coming up in the next 30 days are listed underneath.
- Open Days — only the days you filled in, in the same order, with upcoming special hours underneath.
- Hours Today — “Open Today:” and today’s times, including holiday hours. On a closed day, the utility bar reads “Closed Today” and the header menu shows nothing.
- Next Opening — today’s hours when you are open. If you are closed, it looks ahead for the next open day (“Open Tomorrow”, “Open Thursday”, or “Open Jan 5” after a long closure).
- Inline Hours — abbreviated days in one line (
Mon: 9:00 am - 5:00 pm | Tue: …). Closed days are skipped. Holiday hours don’t appear in this line.
The footer list heading is Hours Headline (default Hours). It uses the Headline Style from Appearance → Customize → Footer & Contact.
Tips
- Footer hours only print on the theme footer. A freeform footer from Dirigible Footer does not include this list.
- Your weekly and holiday hours are also added to the site’s structured data for search engines, as long as the site is shared as a local business: the theme needs a street and city under Customizer → Footer & Contact, or a business type chosen in Dirigible SEO. A site shared as an organization, a person or a band has no opening hours.
- Week Starts On only changes the order of list layouts. It does not change which day is “today”.
