[bw_tides] shortcode – for UK tide times

The oik tides plugin is a subcomponent of the oik plugin. It provides a shortcode [bw_tides tideurl=”http://www.tidetimes.org.uk/Chichester_Harbour.rss”] with the default value for tideurl being as above. Since it gets its information from the tide times or tidetimes.co.uk websites, it only works for the UK.

Tide Times & Heights for Portsmouth on
1st December 2022

05:32 - High Tide ( 4.33m )

10:55 - Low Tide ( 1.89m )

17:46 - High Tide ( 4.06m )

23:23 - Low Tide ( 1.67m )

It produces similar output to the JavaScript provided at http://www.tidetimes.org.uk/widgets.php   To find the value for tideurl for your local area consult http://www.tidetimes.org.uk/all.php If you are going to show tidal information for more than one location then you will need to use the store=value parameter. If you don’t do this then you’ll get the cached information for the original location. Examples below for Portsmouth and Bognor Regis are [bw_tides tideurl=”http://www.tidetimes.org.uk/Portsmouth.rss” store=6]

Tide Times & Heights for Portsmouth on
1st December 2022

05:32 - High Tide ( 4.33m )

10:55 - Low Tide ( 1.89m )

17:46 - High Tide ( 4.06m )

23:23 - Low Tide ( 1.67m )

[bw_tides tideurl=”http://www.tidetimes.org.uk/Bognor_Regis.rss” store=8]

Tide Times & Heights for Bognor Regis on
1st December 2022

05:07 - High Tide ( 4.84m )

11:12 - Low Tide ( 1.57m )

17:38 - High Tide ( 4.61m )

23:49 - Low Tide ( 1.46m )