Starting Times & Ending Times

The time should be entered in this format: 05/01/2013 00:00

I see that I am having an issue that the date/time picker sometimes does not work. I’ve adjusted the plugin to force it to show up. That will be changed in the next version.

I need to check how your time settings are on your server.

1. Select the Main Options Tab of a TopBar that has the time settings.
2. Append &debug to the URL in your browser (ex….php?page=wp-topbar.php&action=main&barid=705508&debug)
3. Hit enter to load that URL
4. Look for lines like this and reply back to me with what your system has:

WP-TopBar Debug Mode: Server Timezone:UTC
WP-TopBar Debug Mode: Current Time :1367455359-2013-05-02 00:42:39 (UTC)
WP-TopBar Debug Mode: Starting Time:05/01/2013 00:00-05/01/2013 00:00-1970-01-01 00:00:05 (UTC)
WP-TopBar Debug Mode: Ending Time  :05/30/2013 00:00-05/30/2013 00:00-1970-01-01 00:00:05 (UTC)

Hello, Thank you for your speedy response.

The code you requested is:

WP-TopBar Debug Mode: Server Timezone:UTC
WP-TopBar Debug Mode: Current Time :1367551682-2013-05-03 03:28:02 (UTC)
WP-TopBar Debug Mode: Starting Time:05/01/2013 23:35-05/01/2013 23:35-1970-01-01 00:00:05 (UTC)
WP-TopBar Debug Mode: Ending Time  :05/01/2025 00:00-05/01/2025 00:00-1970-01-01 00:00:05 (UTC)

I used the format you suggested and put in a later date and the bar did not show as it should. However, when I messed with the time it didn’t work correctly so it must have something to do with the server time like you mentioned.

Also, I have one more question. Will this work for those in different time zones? For example, if we want the bar to show up at 7pm central will it know to show up at 8pm eastern?

Thank you so much for your help!

Ok, sorry for posting so many times but I sort of figured out where you were headed. I noticed that the server uses UTC which I figured out is a universal time zone. Ok. So, I did the math to figure out the times that I need for our meetings. (ie, the times we want the top bar to show up) This is what I came up with. Maybe I’m missing something.

This is the time of our service central America time: 10:45 am – 12:00 pm
This would be the UTC time which is 5 hours ahead of us: 3:45 pm – 5 pm
And this would be the UTC time in military format: 15:45 – 17:00

This is the time of our service central America time: 7 pm – 8:30 pm
This would be the UTC time which is 5 hours ahead of us: 1:00 am – 2:30am
And this would be the UTC time in military format: 01:00 – 02:30

But the top bar is still showing up even though I have them set for these times. Am I doing something wrong? Blessings to you!

The plugin is coded to use UTC so that it does not have to worry about timezones.

Based on what I am seeing from your timestamps, the TopBar should show. The start time/date is 5/01/2013. The StopTime is 5/31/2025. (Twelve years ahead from now). So, since today is between those two dates… the TopBar would appear.

At the top of every Tab, there is a Section called Check. Here is what one looks like:

Time check: Based on your Start/End time settings in the Main Options, the TopBar will  display (based on the current time.)
Cookie check: The plugin is not checking for the presence of cookies.
Home Page check: TopBar will check Page/Category criteria to determine if it should display on the Home Page (if the TopBar is enabled)
Control check: TopBar is only checking for Page IDs (if any are entered and the TopBar is enabled)

Can you reply with what your TopBar has?

Yeah. The date is not so much important but the time is. We want the top bar to show up everyday at those certain times, forever. That is why I put the date for twelve years from now. I understand your point now. Since it’s in between those two dates it WILL show I was thinking more about the times. Sorry about that.

Is there anyway to just not put a date and only worry about the times? We only want the top bar to show at those specific times everyday.

Thank you!

There is not a way to do what you want with the plugin configuration. It is can add that feature to the backlog. I don’t know when I would get to implementing that.

An option would be to create a TopBar for each day. One way to do that would be to one TopBar, then export in SQL format. Then you can duplicate that row (say 31 times), changing the date, then insert into mysql. You would have to do that once a month.

Bob

Awesome! Thank you so much for your assistance! This was very helpful!

I also wanted to know if there is a way that we can embed our video streaming channel into the top bar? So that when we are live then the video will pop up on the top of our page?

Thank you so very much!

The next version will allow you to add custom PHP to the topbar. That will allow you to embed your media stream.

I will release it, most likely this weekend, after I finish my testing.

If you are willing to test, it… let me know and I can email you the beta version.

Bob

Version 4.15 is up with the PHP option.

Awesome! Sorry for the delay our computer blew up and had to get another one.

Ok, so I have the new version of the plugin and I see the PHP page but when I paste our video embed code it doesn’t show up on the TopBar. We use Bambuser to stream our videos. Here is the embed code we use:

<iframe src=”https://embed.bambuser.com/channel/worldhops&#8221; width=”320″ height=”276″ frameborder=”0″>Your browser does not support iframes.</iframe>

Would there be any way you could show me a code that will work for this embed? You have been so incredibly helpful. Thanks!

The code above is HTML.

You need to convert that to PHP:

echo "<iframe src="https://embed.bambuser.com/channel/worldhops" width="320" height="276" frameborder="0">Your browser does not support iframes.</iframe>";

You might need to add a break to make it look clean:

echo "</br>";

Bob

Hello, I pasted the code you provided but I don’t see anything different on the top bar. I did try putting it in the Before box and in the After box. I even tried putting it in both at the same time but nothing new shows up on the top bar. Am I doing something wrong?

What it your URL so that I can see if there is a code issue?

The URL is https://www.world-hops.com/

Thank you!

Another URL is https://saginaw-house-of-prayer.world-hops.com/ that uses a different theme template. It doesn’t work on this site either.