Countdown Block

With the PublishPress Countdown Block, you can create a highly customizable countdown to an event. This block is available in PublishPress Blocks Pro. This image below is a preview of how the block will appear inside the WordPress editing screen.

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How to create the PublishPress Countdown block #

You can create a PublishPress Countdown block by clicking the “Countdown – PublishPress” button in the PublishPress Blocks category.

The event date and timer are generated automatically based on the Date time from the sidebar.

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Settings for the PublishPress Countdown block #

Once created, you can adjust the date and time, timer, font size, colors, labels, format and more. This from the sidebar.

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  • Date time: choose the date and time for the event.
  • Timer Settings
    • Days and time display: choose between “all in the same line” and “split in two lines”.
    • Font Size for days: available when “Days and time display” is “split in two lines”.
    • Line Height for days: available when “Days and time display” is “split in two lines”.
    • Font Size for hours, minutes, seconds
    • Line Height for hours, minutes, seconds
    • Separator: separator between hours, minutes and seconds. Choose between colon, slash, hyphen, vertical line, empty space and none.
    • Time has come: custom message to display when countdown comes to 00:00:00.
    • Display days label: enabled/disable the label for days.
    • Days label (plural): custom label to replace “days” word.
    • Day label (singular): custom label to replace “day” word.
    • Display hours, minutes, seconds labels: enabled/disable the label for hours, minutes, seconds labels.
    • Hours label (plural): custom label to replace “hours” word.
    • Hour label (singular): custom label to replace “hour” word.
    • Minutes label (plural): custom label to replace “minutes” word.
    • Minute label (singular): custom label to replace “minute” word.
    • Seconds label: custom label to replace “seconds” word.
  • Event Settings
    • Image: enabled/disable the image.
    • Image Width (px)
    • Title: enabled/disable the title.
    • Title Tag: choose the html tag for the title.
    • Event Date: enabled/disable the event date.
    • Event Date Tag: choose the html tag for the event date.
    • Date Format: choose the format for the date that is displayed.
    • Description: enabled/disable the description.
    • Button: enabled/disable the button. This button is an PublishPress Button block with its own set of customizations. Select this block on the editor to access its settings.
  • Color Settings
    • Title Color
    • Event Date Color
    • Description Color
    • Timer Color
    • Background Color
  • Padding
    • Padding top
    • Padding right
    • Padding bottom
    • Padding left
  • Border
    • Border radius
    • Border style: choose between solid, dotted, dashed, double, groove, ridge, inset and outset.
    • Border Color: when Border style is different to “none”, this field will allow you to choose a custom color.

Edit content for the PublishPress Countdown block #

Click over the clock to choose a custom image.

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You can change the “Event's title” like you do with regular headings.

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Type a custom description like you do with regular text.

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Click on the PublishPress Button to customize the text.

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On the sidebar you can customize the button. Here you have the same settings from a regular PublishPress Button block.

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