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Infinite Inventions:
prayer times by country and city, rebuilt on WordPress.
Infinite Inventions runs PrayerTimes.org, an Arabic-first prayer times website for Muslims around the world. We rebuilt it on WordPress, kept its country and city pages at the addresses people already used, and brought Qibla direction, the Hijri calendar, the Quran, hadith and duas together around the daily times.
Faith & Community · Prayer Times · www.prayertimes.org
Infinite Inventions runs PrayerTimes.org, an Arabic-first prayer times website for Muslims around the world, and PixelCrayons rebuilt it on WordPress. Its country and city pages kept their addresses. The home page puts the next prayer first, visitors choose the calculation method, and Qibla direction, the Hijri calendar, Ramadan timings and the Quran sit beside the times.
Infinite Inventions
Faith & Community · Prayer Times
PrayerTimes.org gives Muslims around the world the times of the daily prayers and the call to prayer for their country and city. Its own About page says it has been running since 2017. The site belongs to Infinite Inventions LLC of Austin, Texas, whose owner, Mohammad Bdair, wrote the brief for this rebuild; the site's contact page gives the company's Austin address.
Until August 2023 PrayerTimes.org was an older Arabic site with country and city pages, a date converter, a Quran page and a page for adding prayer times to other websites (Internet Archive, February to August 2023). Our WordPress rebuild is live in the Internet Archive's copies from September 2023, kept the country and city pages at the addresses they already had, and still ran the site in April 2026. The screen above comes from the Internet Archive because prayertimes.org, still live, did not load from our network when we checked on 21 October 2026.
What had to change
- 01People reach the site by searching for prayer times in their own city or country, so the country and city pages had to move to the new site at the addresses they already had.
- 02Prayer times depend on the calculation method, which differs from country to country, and visitors needed a way to choose the one their community follows.
- 03The brief asked for far more than a timetable: Qibla direction, the Hijri calendar and date conversion, the Quran, hadith, duas, the Names of Allah and Islamic events, all around the daily times.
- 04The site is Arabic first, with articles mainly in Arabic, for readers in many countries.
- 05The old site offered its prayer times to other websites, and the new one had to do the same.
The solution
An older site, rebuilt on WordPress
PrayerTimes.org ran on an older, hand-built Arabic site whose pages could not grow into what the owner had in mind.
A WordPress site on a theme of its own, with page templates for the home page, each country and each city, an articles section, and the about, contact, privacy and terms pages managed in WordPress.
The rebuild is live from September 2023, and the same WordPress theme still ran the site in April 2026.
Country and city pages kept their addresses
The site is found by place names, so a broken country or city address would lose the people looking for it.
The country and city pages were rebuilt at the addresses they already had, from the Gulf to North Africa and South America, keeping each old address exactly as it was spelt.
An address such as /uae/dubai/ opens Dubai's prayer times before the rebuild and after it.
Today's times, the next prayer first
A visitor wants one answer: when is the next prayer, here, today.
The home page opens on the visitor's own location, with today's date in the Gregorian and Hijri calendars, the times of the five prayers with sunrise and sunset, and the next prayer with the time left until it. A Change location link and a search for any country or city sit beside it.
The next prayer and the time left are the first thing on the page.
The calculation method, the visitor's choice
Communities follow different authorities for prayer times, and one fixed method would be wrong for many visitors.
A settings panel for the calculation method (from the Muslim World League and the Islamic Society of North America to Umm al-Qura in Makkah, the Gulf region and Moonsighting), the juristic method for Asr (Standard or Hanafi), a 12 or 24 hour clock and the time zone. The times come from the Aladhan prayer times API, credited in the footer.
Visitors see times calculated the way their own community calculates them.
Qibla direction and city guides
Visitors also need the direction of prayer and an explanation of the times for their city.
City pages carry the Qibla direction for the place, a guide to each prayer and to Jumuah, how the calculation parameters work and common questions, in Arabic and English.
A city page answers when to pray, which way to face and why the times are what they are.
Calendar, Quran, hadith and duas around the times
The owner wanted a daily companion, not only a timetable.
A menu of the prayer times calendar, a Gregorian to Hijri date converter, the Quran to read and to listen to, hadith, duas and remembrances, the Names of Allah, articles, videos and upcoming Islamic events. On the home page, a verse, a hadith and a dua of the day, and what to say after the prayer in Arabic with a transliteration.
In the client's words, daily prayer timings and useful features in one accessible experience.
Ramadan timings
In Ramadan, visitors need the fasting times as well as the prayer times.
A Ramadan timetable (imsakiah) for Ramadan 2024, in the menu and on a banner on the home page.
Ramadan timings sit beside the daily times, as the client's quote describes.
Prayer times on other websites
Other websites show PrayerTimes.org's times on their own pages.
An Add prayer times to your website block on the home page with copyable embed code, beside sharing buttons, and the developers' page for adding the times to a site.
Any site can carry the times by pasting one piece of code.
Technology
- WordPress, replacing an older hand-built site
- A theme of its own, with home, country and city page templates
- Aladhan prayer times API
- Arabic right-to-left layout, with English on the city pages
- Calculation method, juristic method, clock and time zone settings
- Embeddable prayer times code
- Contact Form 7
- Responsive design for desktop, tablet and phone
The results
PrayerTimes.org rebuilt on WordPress and live from September 2023
Country and city pages kept at the addresses they had before the rebuild
Today's times for the visitor's place, with the next prayer and the time left
The calculation method, juristic method, clock and time zone in the visitor's hands
Qibla direction, the Hijri calendar, Ramadan timings, the Quran, hadith and duas on one site
The same WordPress build still running the site in April 2026
What other teams can take from this
In a rebuild, the addresses are the asset
A site people find by place name lives on its country and city addresses. Keeping each one where it was protects what visitors and search engines already know.
Let people choose the method
Prayer times depend on which authority a community follows. A clear setting serves every visitor better than one fixed answer.
Build around the daily need
The times bring people back every day. The verse, hadith and dua of the day, the calendar and the Quran give them more to stay for.
Why PixelCrayons
- An Arabic-first, content-heavy site moved to WordPress with its country and city addresses intact.
- Live prayer times from an API, shown for each visitor's place and settings.
- One team for the build, from the page templates to the embed code other sites use.
PixelCrayons built a clean and functional website around the needs of people looking for accurate prayer information. The platform brings together daily prayer timings and useful features such as Qibla direction, the Hijri calendar and Ramadan timings in one accessible experience.
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A rebuild like this is our own web team's work, start to finish.
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