Tony DeStefano

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A simple and customizable WordPress countdown clock. Includes settings to sync your website’s time to your time zone, even if they are off by an odd number of minutes.
<h3>Other Shortcode Options</h3>
Change the background color or image (default is none):
<blockquote>
[captain_countdown date=”2/13/2016″ title=”Countdown To My Special Day!” background=”#FF0000″]`
[captain_countdown date=”2/13/2016″ title=”Countdown To My Special Day!” background=”http://mysite.com/path/to/background.png”]`
</blockquote>
Change the text color (default is black):
<blockquote>
[captain_countdown date=”2/13/2016″ title=”Countdown To My Special Day!” text=”#FFFFFF”]`
</blockquote>
Change the border color (default is none):
<blockquote>
[captain_countdown date=”2/13/2016″ title=”Countdown To My Special Day!” border=”#000000″]`
</blockquote>
You can use common color names instead of hex values as well:
<ul>
<li>Use “#000000” or “Black” for Black</li>
<li>Use “#FFFFFF” or “White” for White</li>
<li>Use “#FF0000” or “Red” for Red</li>
<li>Use “#00FF00” or “Green” for Green</li>
<li>Use “#0000FF” or “Blue” for Blue</li>
</ul>
<a href="http://www.w3schools.com/colors/colors_hex.asp" rel="nofollow ugc">Click here</a> for more color options.

Captain Countdown Clock

I made this plugin, so of course I'm going to rate it high!

A simple and customizable WordPress countdown clock. Includes settings to sync your website's time to your time zone.

devgirl

The simple countdown clock is used to countdown to a date and time of your choosing using a WordPress shortcode.
<ul>
<li>Use the shortcode on more than one page or post.</li>
<li>The shortcode comes with different options you can set.</li>
<li>Choose your date to countdown to.</li>
<li>Choose your background colour.</li>
<li>Choose your text colour.</li>
<li>Choose from available styles.</li>
<li>Clock also displays text in Afrikaans, Dutch, Spanish, French, German and Portuguese.</li>
</ul>

Devgirl Countdown Clock

A simple countdown timer/clock you can place in a page, post or widget using a shortcode. Elementor-friendly.

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