Title: Shabbat Blocker
Author: autopeak
Published: <strong>أكتوبر 15, 2025</strong>
Last modified: دجنبر 2, 2025

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# Shabbat Blocker

 By [autopeak](https://profiles.wordpress.org/autopeak/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/shabbat-blocker.1.8.0.zip)

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 *  [Installation](https://ary.wordpress.org/plugins/shabbat-blocker/#installation)
 * [Development](https://ary.wordpress.org/plugins/shabbat-blocker/#developers)

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## Description

Shabbat Blocker automatically prevents access to your WordPress site during Shabbat
and Jewish holidays, based on accurate times from [Hebcal](https://www.hebcal.com/).

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

## Screenshots

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

## Installation

 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:
 4.  * Select a city (geonameid).
     * Save settings.

## FAQ

### 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/

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“Shabbat Blocker” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ autopeak ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/autopeak/)

[Translate “Shabbat Blocker” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/shabbat-blocker)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/shabbat-blocker/), 
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/shabbat-blocker/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/shabbat-blocker/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/shabbat-blocker/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Meta

 *  Version **1.8.0**
 *  Last updated **5 شهور ago**
 *  Active installations **Fewer than 10**
 *  WordPress version ** 5.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **6.8.5**
 *  PHP version ** 7.4 or higher **
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/shabbat-blocker/)
 * Tags
 * [block](https://ary.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/block/)[holiday](https://ary.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/holiday/)
   [schedule](https://ary.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/schedule/)[Shabbat](https://ary.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/shabbat/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://ary.wordpress.org/plugins/shabbat-blocker/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ autopeak ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/autopeak/)

## Support

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