Title: CalJ
Author: calj
Published: <strong>January 20, 2016</strong>
Last modified: June 20, 2025

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# CalJ

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

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/calj.zip)

 * [Details](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/calj/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/calj/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/calj/#installation)
 * [Development](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/calj/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/calj/)

## Description

Use the popular CalJ API to display the begin and end times of Shabbat as well as
the name of the week’s Parasha on your blog,
 with the help of a simple _shortcode_

## Installation

 1. Upload the plugin files to the `/wp-content/plugins/calj` directory, or install
    the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly.
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress
 3. Use the Settings->CalJ screen to configure the plugin
 4. Register for a free API key for your current WordPress instance inside the Settings
    Form

/!\ NOTE: you must install the plugin on your target (final/production) WordPress
instance (Website URL)
 for the registered key to work. If you register a key for
a test/staging website URL, the key will only work for that Referrer. You may register
several keys if you need more than one environment.

## FAQ

### How to use the shortcode

The `caljshabbat` shortcode accepts several directives, which you can arrange the
way you want in your pages.

Print the name of the current week’s Parasha.
 Available languages are: `en`, `fr`,`
he`, `ru`.

    ```
      [caljshabbat val="shabbat.parasha" lang="he"]
    ```

Print the candle-lighting time for the forthcoming Shabbat, in 24-hour format (example:`
18:41`).

    ```
      [caljshabbat val="shabbat.begins"]
    ```

Print the hour of candle-lighting time, in 12-hour format (example: `6`).

    ```
      [caljshabbat val="shabbat.beginsHour12"]
    ```

Print the hour of candle-lighting time, in 24-hour format (example: `18`).

    ```
      [caljshabbat val="shabbat.beginsHour24"]
    ```

Print the minute of candle-lighting time (example: `41`).

    ```
      [caljshabbat val="shabbat.beginsMinute"]
    ```

Print the end of shabbat, in 24-hour format.
 Note that you can use `endsHour12`,`
endsHour24` and `endsMinute` too.

    ```
      [caljshabbat val="shabbat.ends"]
    ```

Print the day of month (secular) of Shabbat.

    ```
      [caljshabbat val="shabbat.day"]
    ```

Prints the month number (secular) of Shabbat.

    ```
      [caljshabbat val="shabbat.month"]
    ```

Print the name of the secular month of Saturday, in specified language (example:
août).

    ```
      [caljshabbat val="shabbat.monthName" lang="fr"]
    ```

Print the year (secular) of Shabbat.

    ```
      [caljshabbat val="shabbat.year"]
    ```

Print the day of month (secular) of Friday.

    ```
      [caljshabbat val="shabbat.fridayDay"]
    ```

Print the month number (secular) of Friday.

    ```
      [caljshabbat val="shabbat.fridayMonth"]
    ```

Print the name of the secular month of Friday, in specified language (example: July).

    ```
      [caljshabbat val="shabbat.fridayMonthName" lang="en"]
    ```

Print the year (secular) of Friday.

    ```
      [caljshabbat val="shabbat.fridayYear"]
    ```

Print the day of month (Jewish) of Shabbat.

    ```
      [caljshabbat val="shabbat.jday"]
    ```

Print the name of the Jewish month of Shabbat.

    ```
      [caljshabbat val="shabbat.jmonthName"]
    ```

Print the name of the Jewish month of Shabbat in specified language.

    ```
      [caljshabbat val="shabbat.jmonthName" lang="ru"]
    ```

Print the Jewish year of Shabbat.

    ```
      [caljshabbat val="shabbat.jyear"]
    ```

Print the Daf Yomi of the current day.

    ```
      [caljshabbat val="dafyomi.string"]
    ```

### With multiple cities

If you purchased a multiple-city package, you may use the following syntax to display
the times for a selected city by its code:

    ```
      [caljshabbat city="Montreal" val="shabbat.begins"]
    ```

### How are the times calculated

Check out https://www.calj.net/ for details.

## Reviews

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### 󠀁[À l’écoute](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/a-lecoute/)󠁿

 [renaud250966](https://profiles.wordpress.org/renaud250966/) March 9, 2024

Gabriel Zerbib est présent derrière son plugin et ne vous laisse pas tomber !

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### 󠀁[Great Work!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-work-873/)󠁿

 [realdesignpro](https://profiles.wordpress.org/realdesignpro/) July 20, 2020

Thanks for this free plugin

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### 󠀁[pretty awesome](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pretty-awesome-24/)󠁿

 [teamoon27](https://profiles.wordpress.org/teamoon27/) June 20, 2017

does what it says… thank you!!

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[No longer works](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/simple-customizeable-and-just-works/)󠁿

 [Christina Garofalo](https://profiles.wordpress.org/cold-iron-chef/) April 29, 
2017

This plugin did work, but no longer does.

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Will not activate](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/will-not-activate-8/)󠁿

 [shulmice](https://profiles.wordpress.org/shulmice/) September 3, 2016 1 reply

Crash Wordpress 4.4.1 have to ftp to remove files

 [ Read all 5 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/calj/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

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

Contributors

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

[Translate “CalJ” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/calj)

### Interested in development?

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

## Changelog

#### 1.5

Fix by @idokd for wp_remote_get

#### 1.4.2

Better error handling

#### 1.4.1

Support for PHP 8 — fixup

#### 1.4

Support for PHP 8

#### 1.3

Support for multiple cities.

#### 1.2.1

Secular month names.
 Date elements for the upcoming Friday.

#### 1.2

Support for additional languages.

#### 1.1

Added Daf Yomi.

#### 1.0

First release.

## Meta

 *  Version **1.5**
 *  Last updated **10 months ago**
 *  Active installations **100+**
 *  WordPress version ** 4.9 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **6.6.5**
 *  PHP version ** 5.6 or higher **
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/calj/)
 * Tags
 * [calendar](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/calendar/)[date](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/date/)
   [events](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/events/)[hebrew](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/hebrew/)
   [jewish](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/jewish/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/calj/advanced/)

## Ratings

 3.4 out of 5 stars.

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## Contributors

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

## Support

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