Countdown Timer Block – build urgency for events and launches vs Events Manager – Calendar, Bookings, Tickets, and more!

Show visitors exactly how long they have left – add a professional countdown timer to any post or page and turn deadlines into action. Countdown Timer Block | Documentation | Pricing Why Countdown Timer Block? Nothing motivates visitors like a ticking clock. Countdown Timer Block adds a dedicated block to the WordPress Block Editor so you can create a professional-looking countdown for your event, sale, or launch in minutes – no code required. Choose from four distinct layouts, toggle days, hours, minutes, and seconds on or off, and style every part of the timer – wrapper, boxes, digits, labels, and separators – to match your brand. Predefined patterns give you ready-made designs, and the timer stays fully responsive on mobile devices. Free Features Layout Options: Choose from 4 distinct templates for different presentations. Responsive: Looks great on mobile devices out of the box. Element Visibility: Toggle the visibility of labels, days, hours, minutes, and seconds. Wrapper Customization: Configure width, background, padding, and shadow for the countdown wrapper. Boxes Customization: Define background, width, height, border, and shadow settings for the countdown boxes. Content Appearance: Adjust typography and color for the digit and label elements. Separator Customization: Display separators and configure type, size, and color settings. Patterns: Predefined designs for expanding the variety of styles. Pro Version Upgrade to Countdown Timer Pro for advanced behavior and styling controls: Expired Display: Show custom content after the countdown has elapsed. Hide at Zero: Conceal the box when the countdown timer reaches 0. Mobile & Tablet Visibility: Toggle the timer’s visibility per device. Prefix Text & Style: Display styled text before the countdown timer. Suffix Button & Style: Show a button after the timer with typography, color, and padding controls. Prefix/Suffix Direction: Control the layout flow of content before and after the timer. Single Style: Style each box individually – background, digit color, and label color. Dismiss Button: Let visitors hide the countdown manually. Extra Patterns: Additional predefined countdown designs. Shortcode Integration: Use the countdown anywhere via shortcode. How to Use – Quick Start Install and activate the Countdown Timer plugin. Add the Countdown Timer block from the “Widgets” block category in the Gutenberg editor. Set your target date and adjust the design from the right-side settings sidebar. Publish – your countdown is live! Use Cases Sales & Promotions: Count down to the end of a discount to create urgency. Product Launches: Build anticipation before a new product or website goes live. Events & Webinars: Show visitors exactly when your event starts. Limited-Time Offers: Pair the timer with a call-to-action button (Pro suffix button). Feedback Did you like this plugin? Dislike it? Do you have a feature request? Please share your feedback with us Check out the Parent Plugin of this plugin- B Blocks – A blocks collection and page building tool for Gutenberg. Check out our other WordPress Plugins- Html5 Video Player – Display videos as single and playlist in multiple skins. PDF Poster – Display/Embed PDF files with different styles. Html5 Audio Player – Listen audios with awesome visuals. StreamCast – Customizable radio player with different skins. 3D Viewer – Embed 3D models and 3D products with interaction. Advanced Post Block – Show posts and custom posts in different layouts. Source Code You can find the source code, report bugs, and contribute to the development of this plugin on our GitHub repository: Countdown Timer on GitHub Third-Party Libraries This plugin bundles the following third-party JavaScript/PHP libraries. Freemius Lite SDK Source: https://bplugins.com/ GitHub: https://github.com/bPlugins/freemius-lite-sdk License: GPL-2.0-or-later – https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html Purpose: Provides an opt-in consent form for usage tracking and analytics to help improve the plugin. No data is sent before explicit user consent. External Services: Communicates with api.bplugins.com (activation events) and wp.freemius.com (opt-in processing) only after user opt-in. See bPlugins Privacy Policy and Freemius Privacy Policy. bpl-tools Source / GitHub: https://github.com/bPlugins/bpl-tools License: GPL-2.0-or-later – https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html Purpose: Shared utility library providing admin dashboard components and common Gutenberg editor controls. External Services: The library may connect to bPlugins, WordPress.org, and Freemius services for product data and checkout functionality. See full details: https://github.com/bPlugins/bpl-tools#external-requests–why-they-are-made

Events Manager is a full-featured event calendar, bookings, appointments, scheduling, and registration management plugin for WordPress ideal for everything from simple meetups to full-scale event planning. Built with flexibility, reliability and powerful features in mind. Demo Documentation Tutorials Main Features NEW Integrate easily with your favourite AI via MCP, unlock the power of AI-powered Events! NEW API Rest Integration NEW EU Compliance Tools for “Right of withdrawal” (EU ‘Widerrufsbutton’) Beautiful calendars, search pages, lists, grids and booking forms to enhance your site events. Easy event registration (single day with start/end times) Recurring and long (multi-day) event registration Build complex recurrence patterns with exclusion/blackout dates NEW Multiple timeslots within the day for events with advanced creation options Overlapping timeslots Buffer between timeslots Bookings Management (including approval/rejections, export CVS, and more!) Multiple Tickets Fully-featured graph and statistics including bar/line/pie with comparison and stacking MultiSite Event Support Cross-Network Event Sharing – show your events and booking fromss on other subsites or main site Network-wide Global Booking Management BuddyPress and BuddyBoss Support Create modular (independent) event subsites or inter-networked events Multiple custom event types (Archetypes), such as Workshops, Events, Webinars, Appointments etc. Customize your labels, slugs and CPT names Enable or disable specific features for specific event archetypes. Multiple Location Types Physical Locations Online Events (URLs) Zoom Webinars/Meetings Integration BuddyPress & BuddyBoss Support Submit Events Group Events Personal Events Activity Stream more on the way Guest/Member Event submissions Assign event locations and view events by location Event categories Easily create custom event attributes (e.g. dress code) Google Maps (see our API usage recommendations) Advanced permissions – restrict user management of events and locations. Widgets for Events, Locations and Calendars Fine grained control of how every aspect of your events are shown on your site, easily modify templates from the settings pages and template files iCal Feed (single and all events) Add to Google Calendar buttons RSS Feeds Compatible with SEO plugins Timezone Support – create events in different timezones Plenty of template tags and shortcodes for use in your posts and pages Gutenberg block editor support, with native blocks for the Events Calendar, Events List, and Locations List — usable in posts, pages, the site editor and the widget editor Actively maintained and supported Lots of documentation and tutorials NEW Gutenberg Supported And much more! AI Integration AI is here, and we’re on board! Check out what’s possible with our new and evolving AI integration possibilities: Data Privacy and GDPR Compliance We provide the tools to help you be GDPR compliant, including: export/erasure of data via the WordPress Privacy Tools, including booking, event and location data consent checkboxes on our booking, event and location forms on the frontend settings to control what can be exported/erased as well as where/when to place consent requests sample text for your site privacy policy describing what Events Manager does with personal data Premium Features We have a premium Pro add-on for Events Manager which not only demonstrates the flexibility of Events Manager, but also adds some important features including but not limited to: WooCommerce integration (sold separately) PayPal, Stripe, Authorize.net, Square, Xero and Offline Payments Custom booking forms Individual Attendee custom forms Upload fields for bookings, attendees and users Printable Invoices and Tickets Send PDF tickets/invoices by email automatically Check In/Out Move bookings to other dates/times QR Scanning Manage bookings on your phone Check In/Out users Waitlists Automation – ultimate flexibility in automation! Triggers: X time before/after events start When a booking status changes When a booking was booked x time ago Actions Send Webhook (Zapier, MS Automation and many other services) Send Email Send WhatsApp, SMS, Telegram notifications WhatsApp, SMS, Telegram integration and interactive flows Coupon Codes Custom booking email per event and gateway Faster support via private Pro forums For more information or to go pro, visit our plugin website. Additional Plugin Integrations Whilst there’s many third party integrations with our own plugin, here’s some we’ve integrated ourselves! Included in Events Manager (automatic integration) BuddyPress WP FullCalendar Thrive Automator Additional Add-Ons Zoom WPML Multilingual Sites