WordPress countdown widget is a simple widget to add countdown and countup timers to your site. It has both widget and shortcode support and It is so easy to use. If you haven’t downloaded this plugin yet download it here.
Title
This is title for the widget. You can leave it blank or give your widget a title like “Final Countdown” :P
Event Title
This text will be displayed at the bottom of countdown. You can leave it blank or you can enter a phrase about the event like “until my birthday!”. This will explain why you are counting down.
Note; you can use html in this field to add links.
Date
This is the date we are counting down to. If you enter a past date countdown won’t work.
Time
Hours, Minutes and seconds of countdown. Any problems with that?
Format
This is where you can change how your countdown is displayed. Here are basic elements you can use in this field:
Y : years O : months W : weeks D : days H : hours M : minutes S : seconds
The basic countdown format is HMS which will display, hours, minutes and seconds.
Using lower case letters will hide “0″ (zero) values from the countdown. For example if you use yowdHMS as format then it will hide year, month, week and day values once they are “0″. If you want to show days only you can use D as format text.
Color
This is the text color of countdown widget. You can use three letter hexadecimal colors as well as 6-digit colors. See a list of html colors you can use here.
Background color
This is background color of countdown area. You can leave it blank to leave it transparent. Default gray background is : #ddd
Width
This is the width of the countdown layer. Countdown auto size contents to fit this width. If none is entered it will expand to full width of sidebar.
Hi, Its there a way to change the hours – to hrs, seconds to secs, minutes to mins please
in the field ‘FORMAT’ just erase and put in M instead of ‘yomdh’ etc.
if you are answering me, I have already eliminated the “Y”. Isn’t that enough?
Hello Vernon, Seems like plugin needs to check for quote signs. Your js doesn’t work because of a syntax error:
I am new to working on my wordpress site. I am not skilled but determined to get it right. I submitted the counter and it worked but the counter didn’t display everything. I saw it was in two places. I eliminated one place, cleared the cache, and rebooted the site. The counter still doesn’t come up although your link on my site with the arrow does. I don’t know what else to do.