Title: Gobbert Countdown Timer, Urgency Bars & Pricing Tables
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# Gobbert Countdown Timer, Urgency Bars & Pricing Tables

 By [gobbert](https://profiles.wordpress.org/gobbert/)

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## Description

Fixed-date, holiday, recurring and evergreen timers; a sticky bar across the top
or bottom of the
 screen; WooCommerce product, cart and checkout timers with coupon
expiry; and pricing tables whose sale prices switch themselves on and off with a
timer. Everything described here is included.

One timer engine drives every placement, so you learn it once and put it anywhere:
inline in a post,
 in a sticky bar across the top or bottom of the screen, on a 
WooCommerce product page, in the cart, and at checkout.

#### Four kinds of timer

**Fixed date.** One real deadline, the same moment for every visitor, in your site’s
timezone, so a
 sale that ends at midnight ends at _your_ midnight.

**Holiday sales.** One timer for your whole sale year. It counts down to each occasion
by itself,
 forever, and shows nothing in between.

**Recurring.** Resets on a schedule (hourly, daily, weekly or monthly) for a standing
weekly offer.

**Evergreen.** A personal deadline for each visitor, starting when they first arrive
and remembered
 on their own device. You choose when it appears (straight away, 
after they have been reading a while, or when they come back) and whether it ever
restarts.

#### A built-in holiday calendar

Pick Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Christmas, New Year, Valentine’s, Easter, Halloween,
Boxing Day,
 Back to School or Summer, and the dates are worked out for you every
year. That includes the awkward ones: Easter moves with the lunar calendar, and 
Black Friday is the day after the fourth Thursday of November, which is not always
the last. A holiday campaign stays correct year after year without you editing it.

#### WooCommerce

Show a timer on the product page, in the cart and at checkout. Name a coupon and
it is applied while
 the sale window is open and removed again when the window closes,
so an ended sale does not keep discounting. You can also have a dated timer take
away the add-to-cart button when it reaches zero, so a real deadline really closes
the offer. On a site without WooCommerce the store settings simply stay switched
off.

#### Twelve styles, in every builder

Counter, departure board, dials, meter, precision, statement, neon, odometer, progress
ring,
 draining bar, digital and split flap, in compact or prominent, all responsive.
Start from a ready-made look and adjust it, or set everything yourself: your own
colours, a panel behind the timer, corner rounding, spacing, the heading above or
below the digits, and your own wording for the unit labels in any language. Everything
shows on a live canvas while you set it up, on a mock of your own page, so you always
see what you are going to get.

Place a timer with the block, the Elementor widget, the WPBakery element or the 
shortcode. Every
 one renders through the same code, so they cannot drift apart.

#### Pricing tables that follow the sale

One table, two prices. Give any row a sale value beside its everyday one, connect
the table to a
 timer, and the sale prices appear while that timer runs and go back
on their own when it ends. No duplicate table to build, and nothing to change back
on the day.

A sale is not always a discount, so every field has its own optional sale version:
the price, the
 wording under it, the badge, and what is included. Change only the
badge if that is the offer.

Buttons can send somebody to a link you choose, add a WooCommerce product to the
cart, go straight
 to checkout, or go to checkout with a coupon applied while the
sale is on. The table works with no timer attached at all, if a pricing table is
all you need.

#### A pricing table that looks like your brand

Choose how many tiers, pick a starting look from the carousel, choose its colours,
then adjust
 anything you like. **Ten looks and ten colour schemes**, which is a
hundred tables rather than twenty near-identical cards: no two looks are the same
shape in another colour, because colour is its own control. Each card in the picker
shows the real table rather than describing it.

Every tier can carry the lines real pricing pages use, each as its own field rather
than improvised
 in a badge: a saving like “50% off” or “$39 off”, a per-day equivalent
like “less than a coffee a day”, a strapline under the name, and small print under
the button. Each is optional and renders nothing when empty. The badge itself can
sit inside the card, straddle its top edge as a ribbon, hang above it as a tab, 
or run across the corner as a flag, and the recommended tier can take a glow.

Underneath, the layout is set by two separate controls rather than one combined 
list of styles.

**How the tiers sit together**: spaced apart, touching with no gaps, on one continuous
sheet
 divided by hairlines, set wide apart so each stands alone, or with the recommended
one drawn taller and filled so it stands out of the row.

**How each card is built**: a bordered panel, a filled header band carrying the 
name and price, no
 box at all, a coloured spine down the side, a rate card with
the price above the name, a price on a tab across the corner, or a capped header
with a point aimed at the tier.

Those two multiply, so the combinations are yours rather than a list somebody wrote
out.

**The panel** the table sits on: none, a flat ground, a soft wash, or a dark one
that re-cuts its
 own text colours so it stays readable rather than merely going
dark.

**How the price is set.** The familiar bold number; a light, wide, quiet register
for a brand that
 would rather state a price than sell one; one large enough to 
carry a page on its own; or the plan name leading with the price small underneath.

**How the recommended column is marked**: a coloured border, a lift, drawn larger,
a filled bar
 across the top, or inverted to a dark ground while the others stay
light. Whichever you choose, it is also announced to a screen reader, so the recommendation
is never carried by colour alone.

**One accent colour** driving the badge, the ticks, the button and the border together,
rather than
 four pickers that can disagree with each other.

#### Side by side on a phone, not stacked

A price means very little on its own and a great deal beside two others, which is
why a pricing
 table exists at all. Stacking the tiers on a phone means they are
read one at a time, and the comparison becomes an act of memory.

So there is a third layout for narrow screens. Every tier stays on screen: the one
being read takes most of the
 width and the others narrow beside it, still showing
their name and price, and a tap or a swipe opens another. It works with any number
of tiers, it is announced properly to a screen reader, and if the script never arrives
the table falls back to the ordinary stack rather than breaking. Stacking and sideways
swiping are both still there if you prefer them.

#### Honest about evergreen timers

An evergreen timer is a real per-visitor deadline only if the offer it points to
genuinely expires
 for that visitor. If the price never changes when the timer reaches
zero, the timer is not telling the truth, and repeat visitors notice. The plugin
gives you the honest configuration; using it honestly is your call.

#### Your settings are yours

Download every campaign, its style, schedule, expiry action and your bar settings
as one file. Keep
 it as a backup before a risky edit, restore it after a reinstall,
or upload it on another site to copy a whole season across.

## Screenshots

[⌊The four timer styles.⌉⌊The four timer styles.⌉[

The four timer styles.

[⌊The campaign editor, with a live preview.⌉⌊The campaign editor, with a live preview
.⌉[

The campaign editor, with a live preview.

[⌊The sticky urgency bar on a store page.⌉⌊The sticky urgency bar on a store page
.⌉[

The sticky urgency bar on a store page.

[⌊WooCommerce placements and the sale coupon.⌉⌊WooCommerce placements and the sale
coupon.⌉[

WooCommerce placements and the sale coupon.

## Blocks

This plugin provides 1 block.

 *   Countdown Timer

## FAQ

### Does rendering a timer depend on any external service?

No. A timer is drawn from data already in your WordPress database, so a countdown
never waits on another server and cannot fail because one was unreachable.

### Where is visitor data stored?

An evergreen timer’s per-device state (when that visitor first saw the timer, and
its restart bookkeeping) is kept in that visitor’s own browser storage. Your campaigns
are stored in your WordPress database alongside your other settings.

### Will a timer break if a page is cached?

No, and this is why the markup ships with no digits in it. The remaining time is
worked out in the browser on every page view, so a fully cached page still shows
the correct countdown rather than whatever the number was when the cache was written.

### What about pricing tables on a cached page?

They correct themselves too, which matters more, because a stale price is a promise
your checkout will not keep. A pricing table ships both its everyday and its sale
values, and the browser picks the right ones against the same deadline the timer
counts to. So a page cached in the middle of a sale stops showing sale prices the
moment the sale ends, and a page cached before one starts showing them the moment
it begins. You do not need to exclude the page from your cache, and the prices do
not flash or move on load.

### What happens when a timer reaches zero?

You choose per campaign: hide the timer, show a message in its place, or send the
visitor to another page. A redirect only applies to someone who was watching when
it reached zero. Arriving at a page whose timer already finished never redirects
you.

### Can I put a timer in a bar across the screen?

Yes, and it is part of the free plugin. The bar can carry a message, a live timer
and a button, and it defaults to a thin strip at the top on phones and the bottom
on desktop, both configurable. A visitor can close it, and it stays closed on their
device for a week. You can also have the bar step aside by itself after a few seconds,
or slide away while somebody reads and return when they scroll back to the top.

It can follow the visitor across every page, or only the pages you pick, so a sale
that applies to part of the shop stays where it belongs. And on a site with accounts
you can hide it from anyone signed in: a countdown speaks to somebody still deciding
whether to buy, and a member who has already paid reads the same bar as pressure
to buy what they already own.

### Can I choose where each timer appears?

Yes. Every timer picks its own placement: a bar across the whole site, or free standing
on the pages you choose, where you can also put it on your product pages, the cart
and the checkout. The list of timers shows where each one appears, so you can see
at a glance which timer is on your bar.

### Do I need WooCommerce?

Only for the store placements. The inline timers, the block, the builder elements
and the sticky bar all work on any site. With WooCommerce inactive the store settings
are switched off and nothing else changes.

### Which builders are supported?

The block editor, Elementor, WPBakery and the classic shortcode. One renderer serves
all four.

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## Contributors & Developers

“Gobbert Countdown Timer, Urgency Bars & Pricing Tables” is open source software.
The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

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## Changelog

#### 1.2.7

 * The text domain now matches the plugin slug.

#### 1.2.6

 * Translations are now delivered through translate.wordpress.org rather than bundled
   with the plugin.
 * Clearer description.

#### 1.2.5

 * Fixed date, recurring, evergreen and holiday campaigns, all driven by one timer
   engine.
 * Each timer chooses its own placement: a bar across the whole site, or free standing
   on the pages you choose.
 * Sticky urgency bar at the top or bottom of the screen, dismissable, able to slide
   away while a visitor reads, limited to chosen pages, and hideable from signed
   in members.
 * WooCommerce placements on the product page, the cart and checkout, with sale 
   coupon expiry and an option to hide add to cart when a dated sale ends.
 * One element in the block editor, Elementor, WPBakery and the classic shortcode.
 * Built in holiday calendar that computes its own dates each year, Easter and Black
   Friday included.
 * Per campaign appearance: four styles, your own colours, corner rounding, unit
   spacing and heading placement.
 * Pricing tables with a sale price beside every everyday one, three layouts, one
   to five columns, currency and number formatting for four conventions, and WooCommerce
   cart, checkout and coupon buttons.
 * Pricing table styling: ten ready-made looks and ten colour schemes that combine
   freely, five ways the table runs, seven ways a card is built, four panel treatments,
   four typographic registers, six ways of marking the recommended column, four 
   badge placements, three glows, and your own accent colour over any of it.
 * Four levels of depth for a pricing table: flat, raised cards with shadows tinted
   by your own colour, an embossed surface, or the row set in perspective with the
   recommended tier facing the reader. Every level works with every shape and colour,
   and straightens itself on a phone.
 * A colour of its own for the badge, separate from the table’s accent, so an urgent
   badge and a branded table no longer have to be the same colour.
 * Colours are chosen from a row under the table itself, and hovering one shows 
   it on the table before you commit to it.
 * Every shape choice is shown as a drawing of what it does rather than described
   in words, and the chosen one animates to show the difference.
 * The table stays on screen while you work down the settings, with its colour and
   badge controls pinned beneath it, so nothing has to be judged from memory.
 * Whether the table runs across the page or one tier per row is one choice in one
   place, beside the other decisions about shape.
 * Optional lines on every tier: a saving, a per-day equivalent, a strapline under
   the name and small print under the button, each shown only when written.
 * A monthly and yearly switch above the table, with both prices in the page so 
   it works with no scripts and on a cached page.
 * The number of tiers is the first choice on the screen, up to five, with an animated
   guide that demonstrates what happens to a price when others are placed beside
   it rather than describing it.
 * Pricing tables can keep every tier side by side on a phone, with a tap or a swipe
   to open one, instead of stacking them.
 * Export and import every campaign as a single file.

## Meta

 *  Version **1.2.7**
 *  Last updated **4 days ago**
 *  Active installations **Fewer than 10**
 *  WordPress version ** 6.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **7.1**
 *  PHP version ** 7.4 or higher **
 * Tags
 * [countdown](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/countdown/)[pricing table](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/pricing-table/)
   [timer](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/timer/)[urgency](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/urgency/)
   [woocommerce](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/woocommerce/)
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## Contributors

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