Super Advent Calendar

WordPress Advent Calendar Plugin

Give your website a festive makeover this holiday season with Super Advent Calendar! Easily add a fun, dynamic calendar that adapts to whatever you need. Pick from a bunch of cool pre-built styles or create your own unique design. Whether you’re hosting holiday giveaways or just counting down the days, this plugin’s got you covered. Customize every door, front to back, to create the perfect vibe for your visitors. Plus, with eye-catching animations and special effects, your calendar is sure to stand out!

Free Features

• Flexible entries: control how many doors your calendar has
• Layout: customize with grid columns and rows
• Animations: choose a revealing animation
• Themes: choose a festive default theme or create your own
• Schedule: control when a door can be opened
• Content: add content such as text, links or embeds (via shortcodes)
• Appearance: open a link, a modal or show directly
• Styles: change typography, padding, colors and dimensions for each slot
• Guarded: daily surprises unlocked each day, previous and future content remains hidden

Premium Features

• Images: personalize the calendar by adding your own images
• Animations: 8 additional revealing animations
• Special effects: such as different types of confetti and falling snow (upon opening)
• Save state: keep doors open on future visits
• Premium support

Learn more about the Premium version.

Translation Ready

Speak another language? You can help make Super Advent Calendar available in your language! Join our translation project on WordPress.org and contribute to translating the plugin for the global community.

Documentation

You can find the documentation on our site.

1. Upload super-advent-calendar folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
3. Go to any post or page and search for the ‘Advent Calendar’ block.

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   Create an Advent Calendar

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   You can also show content in a modal

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   Change the layout and add animations

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   Select a default theme or create your own

5. 

   Add and schedule content to unlock at a certain date/time

6. 

   Change colors, typography and dimensions per day

7. 

   Super Advent Calendar premium lets you add images to personalize the calendar

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   Super Advent Calendar premium also lets you choose from special effects

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   You can use shortcodes in the content to display a form for example

1.20.2: Dec 1, 2025

• Change: test with WordPress 6.9 and update support

1.20.1: Nov 26, 2025

• Change: update dependencies
• Fix: broken links in readme documentation
• Fix: grid should now autofill on smaller screens
• Fix: make superac-day selector more specific

1.20.0: Nov 16, 2025

• Change: use custom DI container and remove dependency to external DI container
• Change: update dependencies
• Fix: prevent locked door with href from scrolling up the page
• Fix: enforce no margin on superac day class on the editor

1.19.1: Oct 12, 2025

• Change: update dependencies
• Fix: load just one canvas element, improves performance on large calendars

1.19.0: Sep 10, 2025

• Add: is-unlocked class to doors which may be opened
• Change: update dependencies

1.18.0: Aug 14, 2025

• Add: filters to be able to change “re-open this door/link” text on demand
• Change: “click to view …” to “re-open this …” text
• Fix: loading spinner not showing when checking/opening a door

1.17.0: Aug 8, 2025

• Change: update dependencies

1.16.1: Jul 16, 2025

• Change: update dependencies

1.16.0: May 24, 2025

• Add: loading spinner while retrieving contents
• Change: text “Opens in a modal” to “Click to view modal”
• Change: text “Opens a link” to “Click to view link”
• Change: keep the door open even when a modal is closed
• Change: use cached version of api results when clicking a door multiple times
• Change: update dependencies

1.15.1: May 14, 2025

• Fix: confetti effects not working

Earlier versions

For the changelog of earlier versions, please refer to the changelog on verdant.studio.