uk-tides

• Contributors: bobbingwide, vsgloik
• Donate link: https://www.oik-plugins.com/oik/oik-donate/
• Tags: block, shortcode, tide-times, UK, heights
• Requires at least: 5.0
• Tested up to: 6.6.2
• Stable tag: 3.3.1
• License: GPLv2 or later
• License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
• Gutenberg compatible: Yes

Tide heights and times for UK ports and harbours

Description

uk-tides displays tide times and heights for a particular location in the UK. The information that is displayed is obtained from the RSS feed for tidetimes.org.uk (eg https://www.tidetimes.org.uk/chichester-harbour-entrance-tide-times.rss ) or tidetimes.co.uk ( eg https://www.tidetimes.co.uk/rss/chichester-harbour-entrance-tide-times ). The data is cached until midnight.

This plugin implements a block called UK tides ( uk-tides/uk-tides ).

• It's much easier to use than the shortcode.
• It uses the functionality that was previously implemented as the [bw_tides] shortcode.
• The block is not dependent upon the oik plugin.

The syntax for the [bw_tides] shortcode is:

[bw_tides tideurl="https://www.tidetimes.org.uk/chichester-harbour-entrance-tide-times.rss|other - RSS feed URL for location" store="1|store key - unique key for caching result"]

Examples: [bw_tides] with no parameters will display the tide times and heights for Chichester Harbour Entrance. The information will be cached in store=1 until midnight.

[bw_tides store=bw_tides_pompey tideurl="https://www.tidetimes.org.uk/portsmouth"] will display the tide times and heights obtained from https://www.tidetimes.org.uk/portsmouth-tide-times.rss and cache the result in a store named 'bw_tides_pompey'

• Note: Using the store parameter allows you to display tide time and height information for more than one location.

Examples: If you prefer you can use tidetimes.co.uk as the source for tidal information.

[bw_tides tideurl="https://www.tidetimes.co.uk/rss/chichester-harbour-entrance-tide-times"]

Frequently Asked Questions

Installation

1. Upload the contents of the uk-tides plugin to the `/wp-content/plugins/uk-tides' directory
2. Activate the uk-tides plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress
3. Whenever you want to produce UK Tide times and heights for the current date use the UK tides block.

How do I find the value for tideurl?

• Note: This is not necessary when you use the block, the tideurl is automatically created based on your selection of Site and Port.

• Visit www.tidetimes.org.uk,

• click on the location of your choice,

• click on the RSS feed icon,

• copy the URL from the feed

eg for Brighton Marina the value for tideurl is https://www.tidetimes.org.uk/brighton-marina-tide-times.rss

OR

• Visit www.tidetimes.co.uk,
• click on the location of your choice,
• click on the RSS feed icon,
• copy the URL from the feed eg for Brighton Marina the value for tideurl is https://www.tidetimes.co.uk/rss/brighton-marina-tide-times

What if I don't live in the UK?

uk-tides currently only works for the UK and Ireland since the information is obtained from https://www.tidetimes.org.uk or https://www.tidetimes.co.uk If you can point us to a resource for other locations then it should be possible to develop a very similar solution.

Isn't there some JavaScript that does something similar?

Yes. See https://www.tidetimes.org.uk/widgets or https://www.tidetimes.co.uk/widgets

You may find the output harder to (re)style.

Further reading

If you want to read more about the oik plugins then please visit the oik plugin "OIK - OIK Information Kit"

Screenshots

1. Example UK tides block - for Chichester Harbour (Entrance) from tidetimes.org.uk
2. Sample output for Portsmouth, Hants - from tidetimes.org.uk
3. Sample output for Portsmouth, Hants - from tidetimes.co.uk

Upgrade Notice

3.3.1

Update for

Changelog

3.3.1

• Changed: Updated wp-scripts #29
• Changed: Remove dependency on bobbfunc's ep() #28
• Tested: With WordPress 6.6.2 and WordPress Multisite
• Tested: With Gutenberg 19.1.0
• Tested: With PHP 8.3
• Tested: With PHPUnit 9.6