Live Clock Widget
Display a modern, responsive analog or digital clock using shortcode or widget. No Flash, pure JavaScript.
Plugin info
Maintenance & Compatibility
Maintenance score
Actively maintained • Last updated 51 days ago • 1 reviews
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Likely maintained (last update 51 days ago).
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Description
Live Clock Widget provides a beautiful, modern clock display for your website. Choose between analog and digital styles, customize the size, and display it anywhere using a shortcode or widget.
Key Features:
- 🕐 Analog Clock – Beautiful circular clock with smooth animations
- 🔢 Digital Clock – Modern digital display with date
- 📱 Fully Responsive – Works perfectly on all devices
- 🎨 Modern Design – Gradient backgrounds and smooth animations
- ⚡ No Flash – Pure JavaScript and CSS (Flash removed in v2.0)
- 🔒 Secure – All output properly escaped and sanitized
- 🌐 Translation Ready – Full i18n support
- ⚙️ Easy Customization – Adjustable size and type
Usage:
- Shortcode:
[wpclock]– Default analog clock - Shortcode Options:
[wpclock type="digital" size="300"] - Widget: Drag and drop from Appearance > Widgets
- PHP Function:
Installation
- Upload the
wordpress-clockfolder to/wp-content/plugins/ - Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
- Use the shortcode
[wpclock]in any post or page - Or add the widget from Appearance > Widgets
Frequently Asked Questions
Use [wpclock] for a default analog clock, or customize it:
* [wpclock type="analog" size="200"] – Analog clock, 200px
* [wpclock type="digital" size="300"] – Digital clock, 300px
- Go to Appearance > Widgets
- Find “WordPress Clock” widget
- Drag it to your desired sidebar
- Configure the title, type, and size
- Save
Yes! Add custom CSS to your theme:
`css
.wpclock-face {
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #your-color1, #your-color2);
}
`
Yes! Version 2.0 completely removed Flash and uses modern JavaScript and CSS3.
Absolutely! The clock automatically adjusts to different screen sizes.
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Screenshots
Wordpress Clock on Display
Changelog
2.3
- CRITICAL: Fixed text domain to match plugin slug (wordpress-clock)
- Removed Domain Path header (not needed for WordPress.org plugins)
- Removed screenshot-1.png (should be in assets, not plugin)
- All internationalization now uses correct text domain
2.2
- Updated Plugin URI to GitHub repository
- All links now point to https://github.com/MervinPraison/wordpress-clock
- Removed references to mervin.info domain
2.1
- CRITICAL: Fixed trademark violation – renamed from “WordPress Clock” to “Live Clock Widget”
- Updated all text domains to ‘live-clock-widget’
- Updated plugin URI and author URI
2.0
- MAJOR UPDATE: Complete rewrite from scratch
- Security: Removed Flash dependency (security risk)
- Security: Added proper input sanitization and output escaping
- Security: Updated to modern WordPress widget API
- Improved: Pure JavaScript and CSS3 implementation
- Improved: Responsive design for all devices
- Improved: Smooth animations for analog clock
- Improved: Digital clock with date display
- Improved: Modern gradient design
- Improved: Widget with customization options
- Improved: Shortcode with type and size parameters
- Improved: Translation ready with text domain
- Improved: WordPress 6.8 compatibility
- Fixed: Plugin name typo (Worpress WordPress)
- Fixed: Deprecated widget registration method
- Fixed: Hardcoded HTTP URLs
- Fixed: External CDN dependency removed
1.1
- Minor fixes
1.0
- Initial release with Flash clock