dmonnier

Yep, but since it’s dynamic per-user you’ll have to code it in the template(s) for wherever the user will see it. Something like this in, say, header.php:

if ( {user is logged in} )
{
	$subscription_expires_date = date( 'm/d/Y', {timestamp from database} );
	$subscription_expires_time = date( 'H:i:s', {timestamp from database} );
	do_shortcode( '[countdown date='" . $subscription_expires_date . "' time='" . $subscription_expires_time . "' ...]' );
}

It’s completely doable, you just need to know a little code. 🙂 Does this answer your question?

Yeah, a skeleton sample CSS is on my list for next release.

Static countdowns on page reload are not available in this plug-in (yet), but in the meantime you can use PHP in a page template to generate and hard-code the expiration date based on the page load time. Something like:

$add_time = 300; // 5 minutes = 300 seconds
$target_timestamp = time() + $add_time;
$target_time = date( 'H:i:s', $target_timestamp );
$target_date = date( 'm/d/Y', $target_timestamp );

echo do_shortcode( '[countdown date="' . $target_date . '" time="' . $target_time . '"]' );

I didn’t test this, so be careful if you copy-paste.

Since two of you have now requested this feature, I’ll add it to the list for the next version 🙂

You can copy and/or add to the existing stylesheets from

path_to\cssable-countdown\includes\css\

The non-admin CSS files have comments to tell you which element styles what.

To add your own stylesheet independent of the plugin, see the FAQ under How do I add my own CSS?

You’re looking for the font-family: Arial, sans-serif property.

This will be supported in version 2.0 of my plugin to match the original jQuery author’s version 2.0.0, which has a padZeroes option. I have no timeframe on this upgrade yet, sorry.

Thanks for bringing this bug to my attention. Sorry, I didn’t realize that the jQuery plugin’s author didn’t localize the language files correctly. I’m working on a permanent fix for this, but in the meantime I think you can get it working by renaming and editing the following file:

/path/to/plugins/cssable-countdown/langs/jquery.countdown-de.js
to
/path/to/plugins/cssable-countdown/langs/jquery.countdown-de_DE.js

Open it and change:

$.countdown.regionalOptions['de']
to
$.countdown.regionalOptions['de_DE']

If the underscores don’t work, try a hyphen (de-DE), and if that still doesn’t work, I’ll fix it soon, no worries.

chltx wins the prize, $instance['hours'] != $instance['hour'], which was why the hour parameter wasn’t getting set. Both of you, please download version 1.4 and it should work now. Thank you again for being patient with me (and for being guinea pig testers!) 🙂

Hm. I’m not seeing this behavior on my end, so let’s rule out server, plugin, or theme incompatibilities.

1. Verify that you’ve got the minimum requirements:

• WordPress 2.5+
• PHP 5.1.3+
• jQuery 2.0.0+

• Delete any versions of CSSable Countdown you’ve got installed.
• Download and reinstall CSSable Countdown version 1.3 and activate it.
• Temporarily change your theme to Twenty Thirteen or Twenty Fourteen.
• Temporarily disable all your plugins except for CSSable Countdown.
• Navigate to wherever you’ve got the shortcode (page, widget, whatever).

Does the countdown work?

Yes: One-by-one go through your plugins and enable them until the countdown stops working. Tell me the name of that plugin and I’ll go check it out if it’s on the WP repository.

No: Post back here.

N.B. The shortcode is bugged for the time parameter, so that won’t work. Just try the minimum shortcode for now.