dmonnier

Thanks for the kind words 🙂

You can use HTML in the expiry text field, but in order to use the plugin as-is in a template, you’ll still have to use do_shortcode().

// check if the target date is expired
if ( mktime( H,i,s,n,J,Y ) < mktime() ) {
	// do expired stuff
} else {
	echo do_shortcode( '[countdown date="MM/DD/YYYY" ...]' );
}

(Of course, this doesn’t take into account timezones or countup versions… you can modify as necessary with gmmktime() and switch operands.)

Alternatively, you can build the jQuery call yourself in templates. The plugin is built on top of Keith Wood’s jQuery Countdown (version 1.6.3), so if you have the plugin activated (or the jQuery scripts included), you can do something like this in your templates:

<div id="cssable-countdown" class="cssable-countdown layout-type_default">
	<!-- do stuff you want showing regardless of countdown status -->
</div>

<script type="text/javascript">
jQuery(document).ready(function($) {
	$('#cssable-countdown').countdown({
		until: new Date(2015, 12, 31, 0, 0, 0, 0),
		timezone: '-5',
		format: 'yOWD',
		alwaysExpire: 'true',
		expiryText: '<div id="timeExpired"><!-- stuff you only want showing if expired --></div>',
	});
});
</script>

Does that help you?

Yes. The FAQ tab has a detailed description of all the parameters the shortcode can use to fine-tune your countdown. This is the general syntax for setting a target date:

[countdown date="MM/DD/YYYY"]

Or do you mean a way to not show the countdown when it’s expired? If so, you can set the expiryText parameter to an empty string or a <div> with display: none;.

Do either of these answer your question?

Both of you, please download version 1.2 and functionality should be restored. The javascript files weren’t in the right location in the SVN depository in 1.1, apparently. I apologize, I suck at SVN 🙂

Interesting. The new version uses 100% jQuery for toggling the options. Could you report on your installed version of jQuery and verify that it hasn’t been disabled for the admin panel?

Additionally, disable all other plugins and admin themes and see if CSSable Countdown works. If it does, one-by-one enable the other plugins until the options dropdown doesn’t work, then tell me which plugin it is and I’ll go have a peek at that plugin (assuming it’s on the repository).

What version of WordPress are you using?

What version of PHP are you running?