Comments on: Version 2.0.0: Peter’s Date Countdown Plugin for WordPress

By: Pavel

Pavel — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 22:11:16 +0000

Hey Piter, grat job!
Best countdown plugin around!!

Quick question:
I'm using method to display your countdown and I was wondering if i can also "print" the variable of the date of the countdown (i only have one) close to the callit function.

Is there a variable to print? Something like

Thank for the adnvice and compliments for the great job.

Pavel

Reply from Peter: There is no global variable for that, but you could include the datecountdowndates.php file and then access $importantdate[0][1] for the month; [0][2] for the day, [0][3] for the year; [0][5] for the hour; and [0][6] for the minute.

By: jeff

jeff — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 20:01:20 +0000

I have this as a widget but the days are displaying wrong I don't this its 78 more days to Sept 25th

Reply from Peter: The plugin calculates the number of days relative to the server time, so your server time might be a bit off. However, I see from your site that the count is displaying correctly now

By: derhenry

derhenry — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 07:07:57 +0000

Hey, good job!
It works fine. But: The number of sleeps isn't correct, if you're living in germany. Like I do. What can I do? )

Reply from Peter: Did you set the time zone in the plugin file to be relative to your server time? Also, if you want true “sleep” counting, like midnight-to-midnight, see this post.

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 01:42:41 +0000

Hi RC, at the moment I have no short term plans for new versions of this plugin. However, all of the display logic is handled in the "countdown_execute" function in the plugin file, which you can certainly modify to your liking.

By: RC

RC — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 19:58:42 +0000

Is there a way to set it up so that the countdown prefaces it with a date. For example. there's a countdown widget out there that displays like this:

Nov 1 – Event Name (123 Days)

Ideally I'd like to see it where the widget says:

Nov 1: 23 more sleeps until Event Name

Just curious… awesome plugin,

By: Ed B.

Ed B. — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:17:28 +0000

Hey Pete! Thanks for the countdown timer. Been looking for a simple one for a while.

I have an idea in the event you plan on continued development.

An auto delete function. For each event for example. Delete this event after xx days of completion?

What can I say? I'm lazy!! Thanks again for the time you put in to this widget.

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 22:17:55 +0000

Hi Callow, yes you can remove the caption by removing the code that displays the "title" tag.

Replace this:
print "title=\"$dc_datedisplay (GMT $dc_gmtdiff)\">";

With this:
print ">";

By: Callow

Callow — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 21:41:50 +0000

really like your widget. It's nice with the sleeps.
On my website I don't want it with a caption, are there any options to delete this out of the sourcetext?

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 05:43:32 +0000

Hi Vzx, thanks for the suggestion. I originally put the countdown items in a file because I didn't want to add even more database calls every time a page is loaded. When I get around to it, I'll look into perhaps storing the countdown items (and options) in a database but making a cache file from the database.

In the meantime, just make sure to copy what's in datecountdowndates.php!

By: Vzx

Vzx — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 16:51:01 +0000

Hi Peter

Nice work on merging the plugin and widget into a single file. I've just got one more issue – every time I upgrade, the date countdowns and options are reset.

I believe this is because all the information is saved in the php files which get overwritten with every upgrade. Is there a way by which user created info is saved on the DB? this would preserve all the dates and option in b/w upgrades.