Shabbat Blocker

外掛說明

Shabbat Blocker automatically prevents access to your WordPress site during Shabbat and Jewish holidays, based on accurate times from Hebcal.

Features:

  • Manual city selection (Jerusalem, New York, London, Los Angeles, etc.).
  • Displays candle lighting and havdalah times, adjusted to the selected timezone.
  • Multilingual display: Hebrew when the selected city is in Israel, English otherwise.
  • Simple settings page – choose your city once and it just works.
  • Lightweight and fast – no unnecessary options.

This plugin is ideal for businesses, organizations, and personal sites that want to respect Shabbat observance and Jewish holiday closures.

External Services

This plugin connects to the public Hebcal.com API to obtain Shabbat and Jewish holiday times.

• What it’s used for
The plugin fetches candle-lighting and havdalah times for the selected city in order to display the block page during Shabbat/holidays.

• What data is sent and when
On the front end, when the block page needs to show times, the plugin sends:
– The selected city identifier (geonameid) and the current Gregorian date (gy, gm, gd) as query parameters to Hebcal’s /shabbat endpoint.
No personal data is sent. No persistent identifiers are collected.

• Provider
Hebcal – a public Jewish calendar service.
Privacy Policy: https://www.hebcal.com/home/privacy-policy
Licensing / API information: https://www.hebcal.com/home/help

螢幕擷圖

  • Example of the block page in Hebrew (Jerusalem).
  • Example of the block page in English (New York).
  • Settings page inside WordPress admin.

安裝方式

  1. Upload the plugin files to the /wp-content/plugins/shabbat-blocker directory, or install via the WordPress Plugins screen directly.
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress.
  3. Go to Settings Shabbat Blocker to configure:
    • Select a city (geonameid).
    • Save settings.

常見問題集

Does it block also on Yom Tov (Jewish holidays)?

Yes. Hebcal provides holiday candle lighting and havdalah times as well.

What happens if I don’t configure a city?

The plugin defaults to Jerusalem.

Does this plugin track users or send personal data?

No. This plugin does not track users and does not transmit personal data to any third party. It stores only minimal settings in your WordPress database (e.g., selected city) and nothing else. No analytics beacons, no profiling, and no personally identifiable information (PII) is collected or sent.

Is there a Pro version?

Yes. An optional Pro add-on is available here: https://autopeak.cloud/shabbat-blocker/

使用者評論

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