[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 Chichester Harbour (Entrance) on
26th March 2023

03:13 - High Tide ( 4.79m )

08:31 - Low Tide ( 0.9m )

15:34 - High Tide ( 4.59m )

20:50 - Low Tide ( 1.09m )

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
26th March 2023

03:20 - High Tide ( 4.6m )

08:27 - Low Tide ( 0.93m )

15:37 - High Tide ( 4.43m )

20:45 - Low Tide ( 1.11m )

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

Tide Times & Heights for Bognor Regis on
26th March 2023

03:02 - High Tide ( 5.62m )

08:52 - Low Tide ( 0.64m )

15:21 - High Tide ( 5.36m )

21:08 - Low Tide ( 0.81m )