Daily Zman Widget
Displays Hebrew date, sunrise, sunset, and key times for prayers (latest Shema, earliest Plag, etc).
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Daily Zman Widget shows warning signs in 2026 — compare the alternatives below before installing. It runs on 20+ sites, is rated 5/5 and was last updated 2 years ago, and scores 34/100 on our health check.
- Small user base (20+ active installs)
- Very few reviews so far
- No update in over a year
- Only tested up to WordPress 3.7 (latest is 7.1)
Daily downloads
Download spikes usually follow a new release — each site that auto-updates counts as a download.
Rankings
Where Daily Zman Widget stands todayWordPress.org search rankings
Live position in the plugin search, top 100| Keyword | Position |
|---|---|
| davening | #1 |
| Davening times | #1 |
| Prayer Times | #47 |
| Zman | #4 |
| zmanim | #7 |
Version adoption
Share of active sites per release.
Rating breakdown
★★★★★★★★★★ 5 from 3 reviews
About Daily Zman Widget
From the official readme · v1.1Description
THIS PLUGIN IS NO LONGER SUPPORTED.
For a version that works with current WordPress installations, please see Zmanim WP or some other plugin.
LEGACY INFORMATION
Displays Hebrew date, sunrise, sunset, and key times for prayers (latest Shema, earliest Plag, etc) along with multiple calculation options (GR”A, M”A). Display is highly customizable, with options to display or hide:
- Hebrew date
- Sunrise and/or sunset
- Earliest time for Plag haMincha
- Latest time to say morning Shema
Within those options, there are choices to show English or Hebrew, Ashkenazi or Sephardi transliterations, and multiple options for calculating times (GR”A, M”A, etc)
This plugin makes one JSON call to hebcal.com for the the Hebrew date. More information on how this feature works can be found here:
http://www.hebcal.com/home/219/hebrew-date-converter-rest-api
This plugin also makes two JSON calls to Google’s Maps API: one to obtain the latitude/longitude for the provided zip code, and another to determine the time zone for that zip code.
More information can be found here:
https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/geocoding/
…and here…
https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/timezone/
For Shabbat Zman display, please see this plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/adatosystems-friday-zmanim/
LEGACY INFORMATION
- Download a copy of the zip file to your computer
- Extract the files.
- FTP to your webserver
- Create a directory inside /wp-content/plugins named “dailyzmanim”
- Upload
zmanfriday.phpto the/wp-content/plugins/dailyzmanimdirectory - Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
- Use Appareance -> Widgets to place this information on your page (does not currently support shortcodes or php inserts)
Formatting
Several CSS style codes are included:
* #dailyzman: a DIV tag that wraps all the widget content
* #zmanbigtitle: a SPAN tag for the title of the widget
* #zmantitle: a SPAN tag for each of the titles within the widget.
Thus, you could format the text by adding the following to your style sheet:
dailyzman { font-size: 12px; }
zmanbigtitle {
font-size: 12px;
font-weight: bold;
text-decoration: underline;
}
zmantitle { font-weight: bold; }
LEGACY INFORMATION
= The plugin works for part of the day, and then stops =
The Google API has a limit of 2,500 requests per day. If you need more than that, contact the developer for the pro version that covers high-volume websites.
Something isn’t working. Any way I can see what might be going wrong?
Check the “debug” option at the bottom of the widget to get some of the initial calculations that are coming in. Otherwise, contact the developer. I hear he’s a great guy.
Installation
THIS PLUGIN IS NO LONGER SUPPORTED.
For a version that works with current WordPress installations, please see Zmanim WP or some other plugin.
Changelog
THIS PLUGIN IS NO LONGER SUPPORTED. For a version that works with current WordPress installations, please see Zmanim WP or some other plugin.
2.0
- THIS PLUGIN IS NO LONGER SUPPORTED.
- For a version that works with current WordPress installations, please see Zmanim WP or some other plugin.
1.1
- Really just matched this to the way things are done in the Shabbat Zman widget
- Added options for Latitude/Longitude for those locations where the postal code doesn’t work.
- If using Lat/Long, returns location name in that location’s language (if possible)
- Using sunrise/sunset (instead of calculating it within the code) because of mis-matches in DST (daylight savings time) calculations.
- changed from using Google Maps API to GeoNames.org for lat/long and timezone data due to overload of Google’s 2500 hit per day per IP, which was blocking sites hosted by NetworkSolutions and other larger providers.
- Changed URL calls to use a more secure cURL routine
- Added additional debugging for php version, plus an alternate method of determining Friday’s date
1.0
- Initial Release
Screenshots
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FAQ
Daily Zman Widget: quick answers
Straight answers, pulled from live WordPress.org data.
Live data from WordPress.org · checked Oct 11, 2026
Is Daily Zman Widget free?
Yes. Daily Zman Widget is free to download and use from the official WordPress.org plugin directory.
Is Daily Zman Widget safe to use in 2026?
Daily Zman Widget shows warning signs in 2026 — compare the alternatives below before installing. It runs on 20+ sites, is rated 5/5 and was last updated 2 years ago, and scores 34/100 on our health check.
How many websites use Daily Zman Widget?
Daily Zman Widget is active on 20+ WordPress websites and has been downloaded 3,819 times since it launched in October 2013. It was downloaded 156 times in the last 30 days.
Does Daily Zman Widget work with WordPress 7.1?
Daily Zman Widget is officially tested up to WordPress 3.7.41, while the latest release is 7.1.3. It may still work, but try it on a staging site first.
When was Daily Zman Widget last updated?
The latest version, 1.1, was released on February 12, 2025 (2 years ago).
Who makes Daily Zman Widget?
Daily Zman Widget is developed and maintained by adatosystems.
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