HurryTimer – An Scarcity and Urgency Countdown Timer for WordPress & WooCommerce vs Product Sort and Display for WooCommerce

HurryTimer is a flexible and lightweight plugin that lets you create smart countdown timers to add urgency and scarcity that drives clicks, increases sales, and highlights upcoming events or deadlines. Easily create: Evergreen timers personalized for each visitor One-time fixed-date timers for global deadlines Recurring timers (PRO) for repeating daily deals, shipping cutoffs, and more Works with any theme and all major page builders like Elementor, Divi, Beaver Builder, WPBakery, and Gutenberg. Whether you’re running flash sales, promoting an event, or adding urgency to WooCommerce products, HurryTimer helps increase engagement and conversions — no coding required. ✅ FREE FEATURES 🔁 Evergreen Countdown Timers Each visitor sees their own unique countdown, no matter when they visit. Great for evergreen sales funnels and personalized campaigns. Tracking methods: – Cookie-based – IP-based 📅 One-Time Countdown Timers Set a shared deadline for everyone — between a start and end date. Perfect for: – Black Friday sales – Webinar registrations – Product launches ⚙️ Expiry Actions Decide what happens when the timer reaches zero: – Hide the timer – Show a custom message – Redirect to a URL 🛒 WooCommerce Integration Automatically show countdown timers on product pages and control actions when time expires: – Hide the “Add to Cart” button 🎨 Themes & Live Timer Styling Give your timer a ready-made look in one click, then fine-tune it with a live preview: – 8 free themes: Light, Dark, Minimal, Flash Sale, Product Launch, Elegant, Summer and Back to School – Timer styles: Classic, Rounded and Minimal – Edit labels (Days, Hours, Minutes, Seconds) – Set custom colors, spacing, block styling and more – Add a CTA button ➕ More Free Features Auto-restart timer (on revisit or immediately) Display one timer multiple times per page 🚀 PRO Features In addition to all features in Lite, HurryTimer Pro provides access to many other powerful features: 🔁 Recurring Countdown Timers Recurring timers are countdowns that automatically reset and start again based on a defined schedule. Unlike one-time timers that expire once, recurring timers repeat continuously on intervals you set, such as: – Every minute – Every hour – Every day – Every week – Every month What is it used for? Recurring timers are perfect for campaigns and offers that happen regularly and need to restart without manual intervention. Examples include: – Daily flash sales that reset every 24 hours – Hourly countdowns for limited-time product availability – Weekly shipping cut-off reminders (“Order before Friday 5 PM”) – Monthly promotions that recur on specific dates This feature helps create a persistent sense of urgency while automating timer resets to match your marketing calendar or business rules. 📅 Multiple Deadlines Set a list of specific dates and let the countdown automatically cycle through them in order — no manual updates needed. Unlike recurring timers that repeat at fixed intervals, multiple deadlines let you define irregular dates such as: – Jan 14, Feb 22, Mar 9, Apr 18… What is it used for? This is perfect when your deadlines don’t follow a regular pattern. Examples include: – Monthly flash sales with irregular end dates – Course or webinar enrollment closing dates throughout the year – Event registration cutoffs on specific dates – Seasonal promotions — set 12 dates at the start of the year and let it run automatically Each deadline can also have its own custom headline that overrides the default while counting down to that date. After the last deadline expires, the configured expiry actions run as usual. 🎟️ Expire WooCommerce Coupons Set a timer to automatically deactivate specific WooCommerce coupon codes. Great for: – Time-limited discounts – Flash sales – Cart recovery offers 📌 Sticky Countdown Bar Display a fixed countdown timer at the top or bottom of the screen. Visible across all pages or specific pages only. Boosts visibility and urgency during active promotions. ⏰ Custom Timezone Set a specific timezone for fixed-date and recurring timers instead of server timezone. Ensures countdowns align perfectly with your intended audience’s local time. 🔄 Restart Evergreen Timers After Specific Time Allows you to set a waiting period before the evergreen timer restarts for the same visitor. For example, you can make the timer pause for 24 hours after expiring before showing a fresh countdown again. This controls how often returning visitors see a new urgency window, preventing constant restarts. 🌍 Ends Evergreen Timer at User’s Local Time Instead of ending the timer after a fixed duration from the first visit, this option makes the evergreen countdown expire at a specific time of day in the visitor’s own local timezone. For example: – The timer always ends at midnight local time for each visitor, regardless of when they started the countdown. This creates urgency synced to each user’s day cycle, making offers feel more natural and timely worldwide. ➕ Multiple Expiry Actions Trigger more than one action when a timer ends, such as hide timer + show message. 🎨 Advanced Design Controls Unlock extra customization options and inject custom CSS per timer. Create visually consistent timers that match your site branding: – Event themes for your seasonal campaigns, with matching background patterns: Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Christmas, New Year, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Valentine’s Day, Easter and Mother’s Day – Circle Progress and Flip Clock timer styles 🧑‍💼 Priority Support Get fast, dedicated support via email or chat. Check out HurryTimer PRO → Usage Visit “HurryTimer > Add New Timer”. Choose between Evergreen, and One-time. Enter a period for “Evergreen” mode, or select a date and time for “One-Time” mode. Click on “Publish”. Copy shortCode and paste it into your post, page, or text widget content. You can also go to “WooCommerce” tab to integrate the countdown timer directly within a product page. To learn more, check out HurryTimer documention. Bug reports If you noticed any bug, please post it on the support forum. Further reading For more info check out the following: The HurryTimer Plugin official homepage. Documention. Follow HurryTimer on Twitter. Explore Our Other plugins: Smart Image Resize – Make all your WooCommerce product images the same size automatically — no manual work, no inconsistent layouts. ReThumbify – Regenerate thumbnails in the background with features like pause/resume, selective regeneration, cleanup of old or unused thumbnails, and more.

Walk into any shop, Supermarket or Department store and what do you see – products organized and grouped in aisle and areas. ‘Walk’ into any WooCommerce store page and what does your customer / client see – an almost entirely random display of products sorted mostly by date of publishing. That has always seemed crazy to us. What shop owner would just keep stacking new stock at the front of all the other stock in their shop in any order. None is the answer! So why is that exactly what all of our virtual WooCommerce stores do? We decided to build a plugin that would fix that. With Product Sort and Display for WooCommerce installed you can do the following: Sort products to show by category on shop page. Sort category order on shop page by drag and drop. Set the number of products to show per category on the shop page with link to view all. If Parent Category has no products attached to it – will show products from the Parents Child Categories. Option to switch Product Categories ON | OFF for display on shop page. Set to auto show all current ‘On Sale’ products first in each category on the shop page. Set to auto show all ‘featured’ products in each category on the shop page. Activate Endless scroll feature for your shop page. Select Auto Endless Scroll or Scroll on Click. Set how many category group of products show before pagination or endless scroll loads. Intelligent Navigation shows customers the total number of products in the category they are viewing with a link to view all. Endless Scroll feature (option) for seamless customer scrolling through the entire shop page makes for quick and very easy shop browsing. 2 NEW PRODUCT SORT FEATURES Auto show any ‘On Sale’ products first in the Category View on shop page. Auto show any ‘featured’ products first in the category view. INTELLIGENT BROWSING Show the current number of products being viewed and total products in Category. ‘No more product to view’ message when all products are showing. VISUAL SEPARATOR Add a visual separator between each Product Category group of products. Style the separator with in plugin style options – no coding Set padding in px above and below the separator. PREMIUM VERSION The Premium version of this plugin is for those who want Sort and Display applied to their stores Product Category and Product Tag pages. It has ALL the features of this Free version – Apply Sort and Display to the shop page – plus these advanced features: Apply Sort and display to the entire store – Product Category and Product Tags pages Show Sub Categories with products on their Parent Category page. Set the number of products to show in parent and each child category Set Parent Cat to show no products – just show Child cats and products. If parent Category has no products because all products are in the child categories set to show child cats with products Custom Sort Featured and On Sale is added to WooCommerce Sort features for Category and Tags pages Endless Scroll feature for Product Category and Product tag pages Apply all settings globally from the admin dashboard with individual setting on each category e.g. Sort type, number of products to show View details here on the a3rev.com site CONTRIBUTE When you download Product Sort and Display for WooCommerce, you join our the a3rev Software community. Regardless of if you are a WordPress beginner or experienced developer if you are interested in contributing to the future development of Product Sort and Display or any of our other plugins on Github head over to the Product Sort and DisplayGitHub Repository to find out how you can contribute. Want to add a new language? You can contribute via translate.wordpress.org Usage Install and activate the plugin On WordPress Amin page go to WooCommerce menu > Sort & Display menu Settings Tab – Turn Endless Scroll on for your shop page. Endless Scroll – active on Shop Page. Go to Products menu > Categories menu – drop and drag product categories in the order you want them to display on the shop page. Visual ON | OFF switch on each category. Switch OFF any product category that you do not want to show on the shop page Enjoy endlessly tweaking your store page product layout.