Shabbat Zman Widget
THIS PLUGIN IS NO LONGER SUPPORTED!!
The facts
- Rating
- 4.7★ from 6
- Active installs
- 40+
- Price
- Free
- Last updated
- 12 Feb 2025
- Added
- Oct 2013
- Requires WP
- 3.3
- Tested up to
- WP 3.8.41
- Downloads
- 5,484
Our analysis
AI-assistedThe Shabbat Zman Widget is a WordPress plugin designed to display Shabbat information for the upcoming week. It allows for customisation of various display options, including Hebrew date, candle lighting time, weekly Torah reading, and sunrise/sunset times. The plugin makes JSON calls to external APIs for accurate data retrieval.
However, this plugin is no longer supported, and users are directed to look for alternative plugins that work with current WordPress installations, such as Zmanim WP. It is suitable for users looking to display Shabbat information on their WordPress sites.
Best for: This plugin suits users who want to display Shabbat information on their WordPress sites.
What it does well
- ✓Displays various Shabbat-related times and dates
- ✓Highly customisable display options
- ✓Uses external APIs for accurate data
Where it falls short
- •No longer supported by the author
- •Not compatible with current WordPress installations
Verdict
While the Shabbat Zman Widget offers useful features for displaying Shabbat information, its lack of support and compatibility with current WordPress versions limits its practicality.
From the developer
adatosystems's own description of Shabbat Zman Widget, lightly tidied.
THIS PLUGIN IS NO LONGER SUPPORTED.
For a version that works with current WordPress installations, please see Zmanim WP or some other plugin.
Legacy information
Displays Shabbat information for the coming week. Display is highly customizable, with options to display or hide:
- Hebrew date
- Candle lighting time
- Parsha HaShavuah/weekly Torah reading
- Sunrise and/or sunset
- Havdalah time
- Earliest time for Plag haMincha
- Latest time to say morning Shema
Within those options, there are choices to show English or Hebrew, Ashkenazi or Sephardi transliterations, and multiple options for calculating times (GR”A, M”A, etc)
This plugin makes two JSON calls to hebcal.com (one to get the Hebrew date and one for the weekly Torah reading). More information on how this feature works can be found here:
http://www.hebcal.com/home/219/hebrew-date-converter-rest-api
…and here…
http://www.hebcal.com/home/195/jewish-calendar-rest-api
This plugin also makes three JSON calls to GeoNames.org API to get the sunrise/sunset times for Friday and Saturday, and to obtain the latitude/longitude for the provided zip code. More information can be found here:
http://www.geonames.org/export/web-services.html/
For Daily Zmanim display, please see this plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/daily-zman-widget/
Legacy information
- Download a copy of the zip file to your computer
- Extract the files.
- FTP to your webserver
- Create a directory inside /wp-content/plugins named “shabbatzmanim”
- Upload
zmanfriday.phpto the/wp-content/plugins/shabbatzmanimdirectory - Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
- Use Appareance -> Widgets to place this information on your page (does not currently support shortcodes or php inserts)
Formatting
Several CSS style codes are included:
- #frizman: a DIV tag that wraps all the widget content
- #zmanbigtitle: a SPAN tag for the title of the widget
- #zmantitle: a SPAN tag for each of the titles within the widget.
Thus, you could format the text by adding the following to your style sheet:
#frizman { font-size: 12px; }
#zmanbigtitle {
font-size: 12px;
font-weight: bold;
text-decoration: underline;
}
#zmantitle { font-weight: bold; }<h3>LEGACY INFORMATION</h3>= Something isn't working. Any way I can see what might be going wrong? =