Maor Chasen

<p>By using Optimized Dropdown Menus Widget, you’ll be able to create dropdown menus that are searchable or “spiderable” by search engine bots.</p>
<h4>So how does it work?</h4>
<p>Basically, it works like this:</p>
<p>The menu’s markup code is being printed as an ordinary nested menu. e.g.</p>
<pre><code><ul>
    <li><a href="http://example.com/page">Some Random Page</a></li>
    <li><a href="http://example.com/page-another">Another Page</a></li>
    <li><a href="http://example.com/yao">Yet Another One</a></li>
</ul>
</code></pre>
<p>Since most browsers support JavaScript, using the widget, the markup would be translated into something like this</p>
<pre><code><select>
    <option value="http://example.com/page">Some Random Page</option>
    ...
    <option value="http://example.com/page">Something else</option>
</select>
</code></pre>
<p>The tricky part here is, that search engines do not usually interpret JavaScript, all they will be able to scan is the nested menu. That way they will reach out for those pages, and most probably will crawl those pages as well.</p>
<p>ODM also supports a range of per-widget settings:</p>
<ul>
<li>Control whether links will be open in new window or in the same window</li>
<li>Choose to use HTML5/XHTML markup for the menu</li>
</ul>
<h4>Features set for the next versions</h4>
<p>Soon there will be an option for developers to use the same functionality via the code. e.g.
    </p>
<h4>Translations</h4>
<p>Currently, these translations are available:</p>
<ul>
<li>Spanish (es_ES) – in courtesy of <a href="http://firstsiteguide.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Ognjen Djuraskovic</a></li>
<li>Serbian (sr_RS) – in courtesy of <a href="http://firstsiteguide.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Ognjen Djuraskovic</a></li>
</ul>


Optimized Dropdown Menus

Create "spiderable" drop-down menus that every search engine will scan!

Monica Haught

<p>The Christmas Countdown Widget displays a cute Santa Claus counting down to Christmas in your sidebar. On Christmas day Santa displays a “Merry Christmas” greeting to your visitors. Since the countdown automatically updates each year and starts the countdown over again on the day after Christmas, you can leave it in your sidebar all year round if you want!</p>
<p>The Christmas countdown will appear in your sidebar on a transparent background so it looks good with any theme.</p>
<p>NEW! You can use the shortcode <code>[countdown]</code> to add the countdown to any post or page. You can also use ‘[countdown-right]’ to float the widget to the right, or ‘[countdown-center]’ to center the widget on your page.</p>
<p>For more information about Santa’s countdown, visit <a href="https://christmaswebmaster.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">ChristmasWebmaster</a>.</p>


Christmas Countdown Widget

At the moment I've edited santas-christmas-countdown/scripts/scriptfile.js to support italian language. I hope it will add a switch option.
Fabrizio



Very good

Displays a cute Santa Claus Christmas Countdown in your sidebar. Use the shortcode [countdown] to display the countdown on any post or page.

Optimized Dropdown Menus vs Christmas Countdown Widget