Countdown Widget Help
WordPress Countdown Widget is a plugin to add count-down and count-up timers to your sidebars or blog posts/pages. It supports both widget and shortcode usage. On this page you can find general information about widget fields and plugin options.
View more information on plugin page: WordPress Countdown Widget
Title
This is title for the widget. You can leave it blank or give your widget a title like “Final Countdown”.
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.
Bonus Tip: 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, unless it is set up to count up of course.
Time
Hours, Minutes and seconds of the countdown.
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.
Translation
After version 3.1, WordPress Countdown Widget allows translation of the labels on the countdown. You can add your own translations under Settings > Countdown Widget page.
See Also
- WordPress Countdown Widget plugin page
- WordPress Countdown Widget Shortcode Usage
- All posts tagged wordpress countdown widget