Jewish Holiday Closure Plugin for WordPress
Jewish Holiday Closure is a powerful WordPress plugin designed to automatically close your website during Jewish holidays and Shabbat. Whether you’re running an e-commerce store, a community site, or a service-based business, this plugin ensures respectful observance while keeping your users informed — all with seamless integration into Elementor’s Maintenance Mode.
Key Features
- Automatic Closure for Holidays & Shabbat
– Connects to the Hebcal API to accurately identify full Jewish holidays and Shabbat.
– Automatically activates Elementor’s maintenance mode when closure is required. - Custom Closure scheduling
– Manually define custom closure periods with start/end times and a custom reason.
– Great for internal events, planned downtime, or business-specific needs. - Elementor Integration
– Enable Elementor’s native maintenance mode automatically with the option to use your own Elementor template for a branded experience. - Smart Filtering of Holidays
– Excludes non-closure observances like Yom HaShoah, Yom HaZikaron, Tu BiShvat, and Lag BaOmer.
– Only activates for holidays that truly require a work stoppage. - Shortcodes for Displaying Reasons
– Easily display the current closure reason anywhere on your site with shortcodes including support for Hebrew and English. - Admin Tools
– Override closure manually with a single checkbox - Get real-time status, current time, and timezone
- Preview the next scheduled closure and its reason
- Admin bar displays when the site is closed and why
- Multisite Compatible & Lightweight
– Built for performance and clean integration with WordPress multisite setups.
– Caches holiday data for 24 hours to reduce API calls and improve load times.
