Countdown Timer Block – build urgency for events and launches vs Spectra Legacy – Gutenberg Blocks

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

This plugin was previously called Spectra. It’s now Spectra Legacy. Nothing on your website has changed. Your blocks, pages, settings, and content all continue to work exactly as they did before. There’s nothing to migrate and nothing to configure. Spectra Legacy vs. Spectra Blocks We’ve split Spectra into two products. Spectra Legacy is this plugin — built for existing Spectra users. It receives security and compatibility updates and full support, but no new features. Spectra Blocks is a new, separate plugin where all new feature development happens, aimed at new installs and anyone who wants ongoing additions. If you’re already using this plugin, no action is needed; installing Spectra Blocks is entirely optional whenever you’re ready. If you’re already using this plugin, you don’t need to do anything. If you want new features as they’re released, you can install Spectra Blocks separately, whenever you’re ready. There’s no deadline and no required migration. What’s included Spectra Legacy includes the full block library your site is already built on: layout tools, content and post blocks, form and SEO blocks, social blocks, and site tools like Popup Builder and Coming Soon mode. Blocks included Core — Container, Heading, Image, Icon, Buttons, Info Box, Call To Action, Countdown Content — Sliders, Content Timeline, Google Maps, Inline Notices, Tabs, Taxonomy List, Price List (Loop Builder in Spectra Pro Legacy) Post — Counter, Modal Popup, Post Carousel, Post Grid, Post Timeline Social — Instagram Feed, Blockquote, Social Share, Team, Testimonials Forms — Contact form, newsletter signup, suggestion form, reCAPTCHA (registration/login forms in Spectra Pro Legacy) SEO — FAQ, How-To, Review, Table of Contents Dynamic content — Archive feed filtering by date, author, category, and post type Site tools — Popup Builder, Coming Soon mode, block animations, local Google Fonts, global styling defaults About the AI block The AI block previously included in this plugin is now called ZipAI. It still works in Spectra Legacy for compatibility. New AI features are being built in Spectra Blocks going forward. Compatibility Works with most standard WordPress themes, including Spectra One, Astra, Blocksy, and GeneratePress. Compatible with common plugins including WooCommerce, SureCart, Gravity Forms, LearnDash, MemberPress, and Yoast SEO. See our documentation for the full compatibility list. Support & community Spectra Legacy is actively maintained — security patches, compatibility updates, and support all continue. This plugin is not deprecated. Support forum: use the Support tab on this page Documentation: wpspectra.com/docs Facebook Group: Web Creators by Astra Facebook: Spectra X (Twitter): @wpspectra Contribute Spectra is open source. Browse the code or contribute on GitHub: brainstormforce/wp-spectra Credits Our external packages use Rating Star Component that are distributed under the terms of the ISC. While Slick, Lottie and Striptags is distributed under the terms of the MIT. Additionally, we incorporate FontAwesome v6 under the CC BY 4.0 License, and dnd kit licensed under the MIT License.