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The Before You Are Dead (BYAD) Countdown provides a simple widget witch displays a countdown timer with Days, Hours, Minutes, Seconds and optionally, Years. You can configure some settings: Final date, Final time in the day, Final date format, Your final words and Years display.
<h4>Plugin Features</h4>
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<li>You can display the BYAD Countdown via:
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<li>a Widget</li>
<li>a Shortcode</li>
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BYAD Countdown implements some filters to use with add_filter() function:
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<li>byad_date_data > array( byadRegional, byadIcon) for jquery datepicker in admin. Useful for localization. Default in french. (see – byad-settings.php – around line 131). Check code example in <a href="https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/before-you-are-dead-countdown/trunk/help-code.txt" rel="nofollow ugc">help-code.txt</a> file.</li>
<li>byad_title > filter for the widget title output. (see – byad-countdown_widget.php – around line 25)</li>
<li>byad_timezone > to set timezone for date php functions. Default: ‘Europe/Paris’. (see – byad-countdown_widget.php – around line 42)</li>
<li>byad_jsdata > to configure data passed to the main – byad-countdown.js – file displaying and activating your “last time of life”. (see – byad-countdown_widget.php – around line 53)</li>
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You can also:
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<li>use your own css using this simple action hook: byad_stylesheet.</li>
<li>use your own datepicker JS language file using this other action hook: byad_datepicker_lang.</li>
<li>Check examples in <a href="https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/before-you-are-dead-countdown/trunk/help-code.txt" rel="nofollow ugc">help-code.txt</a> file.</li>
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<h3>Localizations</h3>
BYAD Countdown distributes with translations for the following languages: 
* English 
* Français 
* Italiano
Don’t see your language on the list? 
There is a – byad-countdown-default.po – in the languages/ directory. 
Use it with <a href="http://www.poedit.net/" rel="nofollow ugc">Poedit</a> as a base .PO file for your language. 
Save it as: byad-countdown-LANGCODE.po where LANGCODE is your language code (e.g. fr_FR). 
If you create any, I’ll be glad to include it in the plugin.
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<li><a href="http://fr.termwiki.com/TWSpecial:ISO_Language_Code_Comparison" rel="nofollow ugc">Link to Languages Codes</a></li>
<li>Link to the excellent <a href="http://www.poedit.net" rel="nofollow ugc">Poedit software</a></li>
<li>See also my <a href="https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/before-you-are-dead-countdown/trunk/help-code.txt" rel="nofollow ugc">help-code.txt</a> file for more info.</li>
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Before You Are Dead Countdown

Everybody using this plugin must be dead... So even if I'm the plugin's author, I must say, you don't really die at the end of this countdown!

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The Before You Are Dead (BYAD) Countdown provides a simple widget witch displays a countdown timer with Days, Hours, Minutes, Seconds and optionally,  …

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A fully CSS-able jQuery countdown/countup timer available in both widget and shortcode. Based on <a href="http://keith-wood.name/countdown.html" title="jQuery Countdown by Keith Wood" rel="nofollow ugc">jQuery Countdown</a> by Keith Wood.
Features:
<ul>
<li>Supports multiple countdowns</li>
<li>Available as both a widget and a shortcode</li>
<li>Localization based on your WordPress’s installation language</li>
<li>Timer can be set to count down or count up</li>
<li>You choose how much information to display from years to seconds</li>
<li>Option to set expiration message</li>
<li>Option to redirect to a new URL upon expiry</li>
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Most importantly, YOU have full control over the CSS! Every single element can be targeted and manipulated any way you want. Also works right out of the box with four pre-defined display styles if you don’t care to fiddle with the CSS yourself.
<h3>Future Development</h3>
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<li>Pre-built color schemes</li>
<li>Upgrade to version 2.0.0</li>
<li>Admin panel localization</li>
</ul>

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