Show/Hide Content at Set Time

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1. ★★★★★ cecnaadmin

   5.2y ago

   Perfect! We have a form for the new guests that allows us to make a donation to a charity of their choice. We can’t have people using this form all week long. This is great, turns on when we offer, turns off after the event. Yes!! We put the WPforms shortcode between the Time restrict.

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2. ★★★★★ verysiberian

   5.6y ago

   Thank you for this powerful and easy to use plugin. It does exactly what I need. I am using it for educational purposes. Specifically, we want to make some information available at exactly 30 minutes before an exam starts. With your plugin, we are able to set everything up in advance and not worry about it. I hope that you continue to develop and support it! Thanks so much.

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3. ★★★★★ imorton777

   6.2y ago

   Even worked with my other wp shortcodes so I could display forms during business hours.

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4. ★★★★★ dregad

   6.4y ago

   I had to publish a contact form on my site, but only after a certain date, and leave it open during a limited period. Your plugin did the job perfectly ! Many thanks for your efforts in developing it, much appreciated ! This topic was modified 6 years, 2 months ago by Jan Dembowski. Reason: Deleted link, don't put those in reviews

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5. ★★★★★ gsmphone

   6.6y ago

   It works perfectly, after trying others this has worked perfectly

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6. ★★★★★ gfdesign

   7.8y ago

   This helped me to create a radio statioon website. Thanks for your plugin. Best regards

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7. ★★★★★ hexacube

   8.4y ago

   I’ve designed a conference website. Used this plugin to display count down timer up to beginning of conference, and then displayed conference started message and then display conference ended message. Works perfectly. Make sure no caching plugins are used. When used, content will not change and will be served from cache only. Hats off to developer.

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8. ★★★★★ sonfisher

   8.5y ago

   I have a client with a pre-recorded radio show that airs every week at the same time. I receive and upload the recordings ahead of time and set the time to [show] the audio about 5 minutes after each show finishes. This little gem works every time!

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Recent releases and news for this plugin

1. — Version 2.5 Release date: December 14, 2016 Addition of else parameter. Retire old (pre v2.0) shortcodes. 2.5
2. — Version 2.4 Release date: May 23, 2016 Coding standards, logic and performance improvements. 2.4
3. — Version 2.3.1 Release date: August 31, 2015 Corrected an error in the weekly logic (props Jérôme ) 2.3.1
4. — Version 2.3 Release date: December 5, 2014 Introduced recurring annual schedule (previously only monthly/weekly/daily). Just use type=”annually” in your shortcodes. Code improvements. 2.3
5. — Version 2.2 Release date: October 9, 2014 Fixed inability to nest shortcodes by introducing distinct copies of the time-restrict-repeat shortcode ( [time-restrict-repeat-2] and [time-restrict-repeat-3] ) 2.2
6. — Version 2.1.1 Release date: October 2, 2014 Fixed error where content would show all the time when either onday and offday matched, or offdate and ondate matched. 2.1.1

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Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

• WP Date and Time Shortcode 10K+ installs · 4.6★ · 2 shared tags A
• Meks Time Ago 10K+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags B
• Bulk Datetime Change 6K+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags A
• Seed Buddhist Year 3K+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags C
• Date Time Field Add-On for Gravity Form 1K+ installs · 4.0★ · 2 shared tags B
• WP-Farsi 600+ installs · 3.8★ · 2 shared tags D

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Show/Hide Content at Set Time: 10K+ active installs, 4.9★ (33 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/shortcodes-to-show-or-hide-content