How to Show a Sale Banner Only on Weekends or During Business Hours in WordPress

Quick answer: WordPress can schedule a post to publish once, but it can’t switch a block on and off on a repeating schedule. To show a banner only on weekends, only during business hours, or only between two dates, add Day of week, Time of day or Date range rules with a visibility plugin like Visigate. No code, and it’s free.

A weekend sale banner, an “We’re open, call now” button during business hours, or a Black Friday offer that ends on its own: all of these need content that appears and disappears by itself. Scheduling a post doesn’t cover them, because a scheduled post goes live once and stays live.

The three schedule rules at a glance

Rule	Use it for	Example
Day of week	Repeating weekly patterns	Show “Weekend sale” on Saturday and Sunday
Time of day	Daily hours	Show “Call us now” between 09:00 and 17:00
Date range	One-off campaigns	Show the Black Friday banner from Nov 27 to Nov 30

How to set it up

1. Go to Visigate → Add New Rule Set and name it, for example “Weekend sale”.
2. Add a condition. Choose Day of week, then is any of Saturday and Sunday. For business hours, choose Time of day and is between your opening and closing times. For a campaign, choose Date range and is within your start and end dates.
3. Save the rule set. The rule set shows a plain-English summary, so you can confirm exactly when the content will appear.
4. Edit your page, select the banner block (use a Group to cover several blocks at once), open the Visibility Rules panel in the sidebar, and choose your rule set. In Elementor, open the widget’s Advanced tab and use the Visigate section.

Combine rules with AND and OR

Conditions inside one group must all match (AND). Separate groups are alternatives (OR). That lets one rule set say “show this on weekends, or on weekdays between 09:00 and 17:00” without building two banners. Put Day of week alone in Group 1, then Day of week (Monday to Friday) plus Time of day in Group 2.

Which time zone does it use?

Visigate uses your site’s time zone, the one set in Settings → General. If a rule seems to switch at the wrong hour, check that setting first.

Does it work with page caching?

Yes. Because time rules change over the day, Visigate can flag those pages so caching plugins don’t store a stale version. This is the Cache safety option in Visigate → Settings, and it’s on by default.

Check your work before visitors do

Turn on Admin preview in Visigate → Settings. Administrators can then add ?visigate_preview=1 to a page URL to see hidden content faded and outlined in red, instead of removed.

https://example.com/sale/?visigate_preview=1

Prefer shortcodes? Rule sets can also wrap any content: . Find the shortcode for each rule set in the Rule Sets list.

See the full Visigate documentation for every condition, or learn more about Visigate.