Shabbat Blocker

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 can…